European Social charter

The European Social charter is a document signed by the members of the the Council of Europe to Turin, the October 18th 1961. This Charter aims ensuring certain social rights with the European populations, so as to improve their standard of living and at ensuring their social wellbeing. It was also a question of filling the vacuum left by the European Convention of the human rights, which protects primarily from the civil laws and policies.

The Charter protects, inter alia, the right to work, the right to equitable work conditions, the right to safety and hygiene in work, the right to the right of association, the social security, etc

The States having ratified the Charter must subject every two years to the Council of Europe of the reports/ratios on the implementation of the provisions of the Charter in their internal rights. This implementation is supervised by the European Comité of the social rights, composed representatives of the Comité of the Ministers, and by the Intergovernmental Committee, which prepares the decisions of the Committee of the Ministers. This last then sends recommendations to the States which do not respect sufficiently the Charter.

The European Social charter was the first international document to recognize certain social rights, the such Right to strike.

It was revised with Strasbourg the May 3rd 1996 and inspired the social aspect of the Charte of the basic rights of the European Union.

Text of the Charter

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