Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo

Sommario

1. Premessa. – 2. Peculiarità genetica e polisignificanza della nozione di subordinazione nell’ordinamento comunitario. – 3. Subordinazione e libera circolazione dei lavoratori. – 4. Subordinazione e coordinamento europeo dei regimi nazionali di sicurezza sociale. – 5. Subordinazione e armonizzazione dei diritti nazionali del lavoro. Esempi di “armonizzazione coesiva”. – 6. Esempi di “armonizzazione funzionalista”. – 7. Conclusioni.

Abstract

The article explores the notion of dependent employment and subordination from the perspective of European labour and social security law, giving some comparative insights. The main argument is that EC law considers the employment relationship mainly from the point of view of the free movement of workers in the common market. This perspective implies a sort of reversal of the dominant and traditional approach followed by of all national labour law systems, whereby the employment contract is seen as the basis for granting and providing the worker with a mandatory protection within the employment relationship. This helps explain why, even the in the directives aiming at harmonizing important sectors of national labour law systems, the Community legislature is quite reluctant to impose a common, European definition of “subordination”.