PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES’ RIGHTS IN THE EVENT OF COLLECTIVE REDUNDANCIES AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS: KEY ASPECTS OF HARMONIZATION BETWEEN THE EU AND MACEDONIAN LABOUR LAW
PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES’ RIGHTS IN THE EVENT OF COLLECTIVE REDUNDANCIES AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS: KEY ASPECTS OF HARMONIZATION BETWEEN THE EU AND MACEDONIAN LABOUR LAW

Summary/Abstract: Taking into account the obligations arising from the Stabilization and Association Agreement of 2001 (concluded between European Communities and their Member-States and Republic of Macedonia), the country is conducting a continuous harmonization of its legal order with the EU law, including the legal regulations of the so-called “social” Acquis communautaire. In this regard, the authors of the paper shall analyze the key aspects of the implementation of Directive 98/59/EC on collective redundancies and Directive 2001/23/EC on safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses, parts of undertakings or businesses within the labour legislation of Republic of Macedonia, with a particular focus on the protection of individual employees’ rights in the events of collective redundancies and transfer of undertakings/change of employers.

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