The legal status and employment conditions of local authorities'staff in the Countries of central and eastern Europe (Local and Regional Authorities in Europe No. 62) (1998)

An analysis of the situation of local authorities' staff in the countries of central and eastern Europe and a study of experiences in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Finland and Germany in this field show that, however wide the difference between the adopted or envisaged solutions, all seem to stem from the idea of how best to reconcile local authorities' organisational independence with the uniform protection of certain rights of local authority staff for the sake of equal treatment.