An ageing population is a general demographic trend challenging economic sustainability in terms of employment and pensions as well as overall social cohesion and intergenerational solidarity. This article discusses 1) how to make people work until they reach pensionable age, 2) how to make...

This article argues that flexible knowledge (and thus continuous education) has the potential to out-date employment protection versus new forms of works as the touchstone of labour law discourse in the Knowledge Society. Hitherto labour law discourse has usually focused on labour market...

This article describes the regulation of fixed-term work and its most recent developments in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Regulations are analyzed against the background of the Fixed-term Work Directive 1999/70/EC. Legal developments of employment protection and the scope of fixed-term...

The purpose of this article is to describe the regulation of fixed-term work and its most recent developments within Nordic labour law, referring to the labour law of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden