KONSTANTINOS PAPADIMITRIOU
Faculty of Law
Labour Law
Contact Details
Skoufa 48 str. (4st Floor), Athens | Email: kdpapadi@hotmail.com
PROFILE
Professor Costas Papadimitriou is a lawyer specialised in Labour Law and European Labour Law.
He is teaching and researching in those fields at the University of Athens.
He obtained his law degree (1977) at the University of Athens. He holds master's (1981) and PhD (1985) degrees in Labour Law from the Université Paris X- Nanterre.
He is a Supreme Court Attorney at Law and acts as an Arbitrator of the Greek Organization for Mediation and Arbitration.
He is member of the Department of Studies of the Greek Parliament since 1994. He is also national expert for different networks (European Labour Law Network, Free Movement of Workers Network, Odysseus Network). He is President of the Greek Association for Labour Law and Social Security Law.
He has been visiting Professor at the University of Nantes, of Bordeaux and of Paris X- Nanterre (France).
He has published numerous articles and books and regularly advises national and international governmental institutions as well as private organizations in the areas of labour law.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
COLLECTIVE LABOUR LAW, 2018, NB, 267 pages (in Greek)
INDIVIDUAL LABOUR LAW, DEN, 2011, Athens, 1032 pages (collaboration with Mr Leventis in Greek)
THE TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens 2007, 306 pages (in Greek)
LABOUR UNIONS AND THE CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW. Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens 1998, 232 pages (in Greek)
THE SETTLEMENT OF COLLECTIVE LABOUR DISPUTES (1992)., Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens 1992, 178 pages (in Greek)
NEW TECHNOLOGY, WORK AND LABOUR LAW, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens 1987, 157 pages (in Greek)
LES LIBERTES INDIVIDUELLES DU SALARIE EN FRANCE EN ITALIE ET EN GRECE: (Personal Freedoms of Employees in French, Italian and Greek Law) Paris 1985, 539 pages (in French- doctoral thesis)
Articles:
Atypical Employment Relationships: The Position in Greece in B. Waas – G. Heerma van Voss, Restatement of Labour in Europe, vol. II Atypical Employment Relationships, 2019, 351 ff
Les Péripéties d'une institution du droit du travail en temps de crise: le paradigme du travail temporaire en Grèce, Mélanges A. Lyon-Caen, Dalloz, 2018. 651 ff.
New forms of employment (in Greek), DEE 2018, 689 ff.
The Particularities of the ‘Job’ Performance of the Professional Athlete: Rights and Obligations of the Parties to the Employment Contract in Labour Law and Social Protection in a Globalised World, Kluwer, 2018, 167 ff
The Concept of “Employee”: The Position in Greece in B. Waas – G. Heerma van Voss, Restatement of Labour in Europe, vol. I The concept of Employee, 2017, 275 ff
New forms of Employment in Greece in New forms of Employment in Europe, Kluwer, 2016, 229 ff.
The right to work of third country citizens, members of family of European citizens, in Greece (in Greek), in Volume honoris causa Prof. A. Antapassis, 2015, 271 ff
La protection ambiguë des salariés en congé pour raisons familiales en Grèce, Bordeaux Comptrasec, 2015.
Les travailleurs pauvres, in “Droit Social et travailleurs pauvres”, Presses Bruylant, 2013, 205 ff
Les transformations récentes du droit du travail en Grèce, Giornale di diritto del lavoro e di relazioni industriali, 2012
Le droit grec face à la crise: un passage dangereux vers une nouvelle physionomie juridique, Révue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale, 2012/2, 6 ff.
Les libertés individuelles du salarié en Grèce, in “Libertés individuelles et relations de travail: le permis, le possible et l’interdit” Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2011,97 ff .
The prohibition of Age Discrimination in Labour Relations, Reports to the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law Washington D.C., Nomos, 2011, 285 ff.
The Managerial prerogative and the right and duty to collective bargaining in Greece, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2009, 273 ff
Risques psychosociaux au travail. L’esquisse d’encadrement par le droit grec in Risques psychosociaux au travail. Etude comparé Espagne, Grèce, Italie, Portugal (sous la direction de L. Lerouge), L’Harmattan, 2009.
L’ordre public dans les relations du travail, Travaux de l’Association Henri Capitant, t. XLIX, 1998.
The Social Clauses and the Liberalization of International Commerce, LABOUR LAW BULLETIN (1998), (in Greek)
Training and Labour Relation,
LAW OF ENTERPRISES AND COMPANIES (1997), (in Greek)
The aliens and the work relation, National Report to Journées Luxembourgeoises 26-29 May 1997 of Association Henri Capitant des amis de la Culture juridique francaise, L.G.D.J., 1997, Paris (in French)
Company Directors and Labour Law, Labour Law Bulletin (1994) (in Greek)
The Settlement of Collective Labour Disputes (1991). National Report to XIII World Congress of Labour Law and Social Security Athens, 1991 (in French)
The Duty to Bargain, LABOUR LAW REVIEW, (1988) (in Greek)
The Constitutional Protection of the Workers Personality in CONSTITUTION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (Labour Law Review Athens, 1987). (in Greek)
The Burden of Proof in Labour Disputes
DIKI (1987) (in Greek)
The Use of Audiovisual Mechanisms within an Enterprise to Supervise Workers LABOUR LAW REVIEW (1986). (in Greek)
ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES
He is member of the Department of Studies of the Greek Parliament (1994-2003). Main responsibility is previewing and qualifying bills through reports submitted to the Parliament.
Since 1992 he is Mediator-Arbitrator of the Organism of Mediation and Arbitration of Collective Labour Law disputes.
He is also national expert for different institutions (European Labour Law Network, Free Movement of Workers Network, Odysseus Network).
He is president of the Greek Organism of Mediation and Arbitration.
He is President of the Greek Society of Labour and Social Security Law.