The basic set of European social rights is beginning to take shape. On Thursday 21 December, European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs Marianne Thyssen presented her initiative for revising the “Written Declaration” directive (91/533/CEE) – which is now already 25 years old. Her objective is to modernise contractual relations between employers and employees and make them more “transparent" and “predictable” and to extend the scope of application to new contractual...