The security system of nuclear installations and its impact on labour law

'Hazardous technologies', in particular nuclear technology, are a challenge to labour law because in these branches of industry, selection of personnel and employment conditions are completely governed by government regulations, and codetermination rights often are neutralized due to security regulations. The author investigates ways and means of reconciling the interests of security provisions on the one hand, and of codetermination rights on the other. The crucial points in this context are inevitable measures such as security screening of personnel, surveillance and physical protection measures, secrecy protection. The author discusses the difficult issue of whether there are possibilities to off-set the curtailments of the right of codetermination by new ways and means of participation by employees which ought to be offered on a higher level, i.e. on the authorities level rather than on the level of industrial plants. (HSCH)