Public Policy & Social Justice
Public Policy Failures and Fiascos: A Brief Understanding of the Causes and Consequences of the...
Public policy failure, low-income communities, social and economic impact, poverty and inequality, policy implementation
The concepts of public policy failure and fiasco are often used in political discourse to describe the ineffectiveness of a particular policy, program or measure. Public policy failures are not only the absence of expected results, but often also highlight deeper social, economic or political problems. These failures can be due to a variety of reasons, including design flaws, weaknesses in implementation, lack of resources or even a lack of political will. This text explores the different dimensions of public policy failures, demonstrating how mistakes in policy design and implementation can have significant social, economic and political consequences.
HORVÁTH, ANETT
Agenda 2030: Future challenges in the context of the sustainability of occupational safety...
Safety of workplace, sustainability, Agenda 2030, occupational safety and health (OSH), digital working
The study examines the sustainability of occupational safety and health in the light of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda framework, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by new technologies and digital forms of work. Significant progress has been made in reducing the number of fatal accidents at work in the European Union over the last three decades, but major challenges remain, particularly in protecting workers’ rights and creating safe working environments. New technologies, global labour market changes and sectoral shifts are creating new risks at work that require more complex and comprehensive occupational safety and health responses. OECD guidelines and international initiatives to measure the quality of the working environment are contributing to improving well-being at work, but their impact remains limited. Ensuring decent work and a safe working environment is a priority of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and an important policy objective in Hungary. Improving new work organization practices and the situation of workers on digital platforms will require particular attention in the future.
NAGYNÉ, HOKSTOK KINGA
The growing vulnerability of workers, reflections at the first Hungarian platform case
Dependent work, irregular work, long-term self-employment, electronic platform contract, self-employment
In the first part of the paper, the authors analyse a case involving an electronic platform intermediary in a food delivery - delivery service case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the deliverer was a contractor/agent and not an employee, as the board qualified it. However, the authors argue that the position of the Court of Appeal could also be accepted, which would allow for a classification as dependent self-employment arising from a formal self-employment. The second part of the paper analyses the contractual framework of traditional employment relationships, pointing out the increasing vulnerability of the related processes. The blurring of both platform work and traditional employment leads the authors to the conclusion that labour law instruments must be provided to protect the vulnerable worker.
SOLYMOSI-SZEKERES, BERNADETT – PRUGBERGER, TAMÁS
The relationship between restorative justice and consensual procedures
Restorative justice, consensual procedures, mediation procedure, plea agreement, confession in the preparatory session
The paper shows how restorative justice fits in with consensual procedures satisfied with procedural justice based on confession of guilt. In our view, the protection of the interests of victims, the establishment of truthful facts and the enforcement of social justice are all objectives that must guide the legislation and the application of law in the 21st century. Although the Hungarian Code of Criminal Procedure has considerably broadened the combinability of consensual procedures, the dangers of the eclipse of material justice cannot be ignored. More specifically, the contradiction that the more effective restorative justice is, the more pressure is put on the defendant to participate in it, trading the possibility of total victory for the certainty of avoiding total defeat. And although the institutions of the plea agreement and the confession in the preparatory session may compete with the mediation procedure, the latter is the one that can provide the most complete reparation for the victim.
CSÁK, ZSOLT – CZEBE, ANDRÁS
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