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

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 conducts 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 to the protection of individual employees’ rights in the events of collective redundancies and transfer of undertakings/change of employers.