Fundamental Labor Rights in the light of The European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is at the forefront of the Council of Europe's development of fundamental human rights, and its practice of developing human rights has been outside Europe's borders as it now plays a key role in the conceptual development of human rights. The mission of the system set up by the Convention is thus to determine, in the general interest, issues of public policy, thereby raising the standards of protection of human rights and extending human rights jurisprudence. Although there is no specific right to protect labor rights, in particular the fundamental rights of labor, in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Additional Protocols but, the Court has developed an important method of referring to and interpreting the rights of the Convention in interpreting the rights of the ECHR to a lot of international sources. One of the most important international sources is the International Labor Organization (ILO) Fundamental Conventions in The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), adopted in 1998, which identified four fundamental principles as fundamental labor rights. In this respect, this study investigates the ECtHR procedures, to examine the hypothesis that “The Court has played a role in the conceptual development of Fundamental Labor Rights.” The present study is a descriptive-analytical study with a qualitative strategy