"Presenteeism" - as a notion created as a counterpart to absenteeism - is being given increasing attention in socio-economic sciences as the phenomenon of attending work despite sickness. The present book investigates legal issues in relation to this phenomenon - and ultimately the question to what degree legal rules concerning sickness-related absence can and should take the risk of presenteeism into account. For this purpose, a closer look is taken into current legal regulation in four European countries (Austria, the Czech republic, Hungary and the Netherlands) with respect to monetary benefit schemes under labour and social security law, with a specific focus on their degree of inclusiveness, additional measures to avoid sickness-related job losses, risk distribution between employees, employers and society, and the likelihood of striking a reasonable balance between the aims of income security and the prevention of abuse.

For decades, the International Financial Institutions (IMF, World Bank) have been viewed as the epitome of neo-liberal policies, resulting in a problematic relationship with standards of social law and social rights, as developed by the ILO. Considering recent developments, could one speak of an evolving change in the sense of new social policies of these Institutions? And what could be the role of social dialogue in this process? The author analyses these questions with a view to the post-communist European region, which has been at the very heart of IFI activities both in the glory days of the so-called Washington consensus as well as in the different international environment following the eruption of the global financial crisis.

Die Einklagung von fundamentalen Grundrechten vor dem Europischen Gerichtshof fr Menschenrechte - ein Meilenstein in der Entwicklung des internationalen Menschenrechtsschutzes. Ein Rckstau von derzeit ber 100.000 Beschwerden und eine Wartezeit von gemittelt vier Jahren fr Beschwerdefhrer lassen jedoch Befrchtungen aufkommen, das System knnte an seinem eigenen Erfolg zerbrechen. Das 14. Zusatzprotokoll, das durch eine Reihe von verfahrensrechtlichen nderungen Abhilfe schaffen soll, scheitert seit Jahren am Widerstand eines einzigen Staates: der Russischen Fderation. Russland - Mitglied des Europarates seit 1996 - besttigt damit erneut seinen Status als Sorgenkind dieser Organisation. Die Autorin beleuchtet die Hintergrnde dieses schwierigen Verhltnisses, die von Divergenzen im Bereich des Menschenrechtsverstndnisses bis zu aktuell- politischen Auseinandersetzungen reichen, und skizziert die Implikationen fr den gerichtlichen Schutz von Menschenrechten in Europa.