Corte di giustizia e diritti dei lavoratori : l'erosione sistematica delle tutele nazionali

The EU Court of Justice adopted a specific kind of proportionality analysis as a fixed interpretative frame to balance labour rights and economic freedoms in the common market. This article summarises four cases in which such a frame ended up in unprecedented limitations of labour rights. It therefore builds on the history of European judicial integration and on the systemic reasons for such case law to prevail. The author maintains that this form of labour rights erosion is consistent with the strategic positioning of the Court in the current European neoliberal insti-tutional framework. [Publisher's text].