Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame

This collection of four volumes charts the development of collective bargaining since the year 2000 in the 28 EU Member States. These four volumes document how the institutions of collective …

Rethinking the Competition Law/Labour Law Interaction

The spread of non-standard forms of work, including platform work, has created some friction between labour law and competition law, in particular concerning the collective bargaining of self-employed workers. This …

Holiday chaos looms as attempts by BA to block pilot strikes fail

Strikes by British Airways pilots could disrupt hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers from August after the airline lost a second legal attempt to block industrial action. The court of appeal on …

Crossrail hired security firm to monitor trade unionists

“Senior managers at Crossrail, the huge publicly funded rail project in London, hired a corporate security company to monitor trade unionists who were campaigning against blacklisting across the construction industry, …

Madrid court rules Deliveroo couriers are employees, not freelancers

A Madrid court ruled on Tuesday that couriers for online food delivery group Deliveroo are company employees, not just freelancers, clearing the way for workers to demand a formal contract …

La Seguridad Social gana el macrojuicio contra Deliveroo: los ‘riders’ son asalariados, no autónomos

“La larga lucha entre la Seguridad Social y las plataformas digitales de reparto vive una jornada crucial. Un juzgado de lo Social de Madrid ha dado la razón al Gobierno …

TESORERÍA GENERAL DE LA SEGURIDAD SOCIAL v ROOFOODS SPAIN S.L.

Estimando la demanda interpuesta por la Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social, contra ROOFOODS SPAIN S.L. y las personas físicas indicadas en el encabezamiento, con personación de los sindicatos CCOO …

Workers in Spain’s Strawberry Fields Speak Out on Abuse

ALMONTE, Spain — A little over a year ago, a young mother left her children in the care of her husband in Morocco and went to work on a strawberry …

UK Govt. releases guidelines on human rights defenders & outlines support to defenders working on business and human rights

“To demonstrate our commitment of continued support of human rights defenders globally, this document sets out why human rights defenders are important to us and acknowledges the risks they face …

Court of appeal decision threatens right to strike in Belgium

An appeals court in Belgium has upheld the conviction of trade unionist Bruno Verlaeckt for his role in a demonstration in Antwerp three years ago. The ruling on 26 June …

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