Here, Uber lost its appeal against a decision that its drivers are properly classified as workers. Driver Yaseen Aslam had previously won an employment tribunal case in 2016 which cited Uber’s …
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The Employment Status of Uber Drivers A Comparative Report Prepared For The Social Law Project, University Of The Western Cape
Oxford Pro Bono Publico University sponsored research project from 2017 highlighting the status of Uber drivers in a variety of jurisdictions with a comparison between drivers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, …
UK: Unison, R (on the application of) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51
The ruling in this appellate case, which applies both to the public and private sectors, addressed whether fees imposed upon a person who wishes to pursue proceedings in an Employment …
UK: Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices (the “Taylor Review”)
The Taylor Review is the 116-page document on which the December 2018 United Kingdom (“U.K.”) “Good Work Plan” was based. The Taylor Review is an independent report commissioned in 2016 …
UK: “Tribunal awards £2 for employer’s refusal of unsuitable companion at disciplinary hearing”
In a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) in the United Kingdom, applying Section 10 of the Employment Relations Act 1999 and reconsidering its decision in Toal & Hughes …
UK, EU: “In Unions We Trust! Analysing Confidence in Unions across Europe”
This article reports on the findings of an empirical study undertaken in fourteen European countries, exploring whether there is a genuine crisis regarding “confidence in unions”. It emerges that unions …
“Transnational Collective Agreements and the Development of New Spaces for Union Action: The Formal and Informal Uses of International and European Framework Agreements in the UK”
This article explores the relevance of transnational collective agreements (TCAs) for industrial relations on an international and UK basis. The empirical study considers four UK multinational companies covered by TCAs, …
UK: “Digital Labour”
In this chapter of the book, “Digital Geographies,” the authors look at both how geography matters and for whom it matters as employers increasingly utilize income-generating “digital labor” located around …
UK: “The Trade Union Act 2016: coming to an industry near you on 1 March 2017”
This brief article reports that the Trade Union Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional) Regulations 2017 SI 2017/139 were confirmed, as well as how the main provisions of the …
An elusive justice—holding parent companies accountable for human rights abuse
A UK judgement on Shell’s operations in Nigeria yet again shows the need to prevent powerful multinationals hiding behind their subsidiaries to dodge accountability for human rights abuses. https://www.openglobalrights.org/elusive-justice-holding-parent-companies-accountable-for-human-rights-ab/
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