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One of the basic objectives of the Union is, among other things, the commitment to create an internal market, based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy aiming at full employment and social progress and on a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. The member states coordinate their economic and employment policies, which, according to the founding treaties, the Union has the right to determine. The Union adopts measures to coordinate the employment policies of the Member States, in particular by defining the directions of these policies. Already in 2001, the Commission pointed to the fact that the EC Treaty gave the European institutions the powers to implement an internal market associated with the free movement of goods, people, services and capital, which enabled the Union (that is, the European Community) to eliminate obstacles to mutual trade between member states states. At the level of the Union, already before the turn of the millennium, work was being done on contractual rules for the proper functioning of the internal market, the result of which was the publication of the proposal for a common reference framework (DCFR) in 2008. The aim of the paper is to bring closer some of the considerations of the authors of the DCFR, which were connected with subjects of labor law relationships.