No return: precarious delivery workers in Ukraine look to Spain for inspiration

Since July, food delivery riders in the Ukrainian capital have faced a sizeable pay cut. Under Glovo’s old system of bonuses, a driver could receive a 2,200 hryvnya bonus (€76) …

SAMSUNG’S INDICTMENT IN FRANCE: FIGHTING TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS’ HUMAN RIGHTS’ VIOLATIONS THROUGH CONSUMER LAW

With consumers increasingly paying attention to working conditions in the supply chain, companies have published ambitious ethical commitments to promote a responsible image. Samsung proclaims to be “one of the …

Deliveroo condamné aux Pays-Bas à payer des cotisations de retraite

Nouveau revers juridique pour Deliveroo aux Pays-Bas. Un tribunal d’Amsterdam vient de condamner le fournisseur de repas à domicile à payer 640.000 euros à un organisme de retraite au titre d’un …

No Year without Deaths – A Decade of Deregulation Puts Georgian Miners at Risk

“Mikheil, a miner for 35 years, died along with three other miners on July 16, 2018, in an underground explosion in the Tkibuli coal mine, in Imereti, Georgia. He was …

Deliveroo’s German exit prompts worker outrage

“BERLIN — Wojtek Świeca was startled when he received an email from Deliveroo on Monday notifying him, like the rest of the company’s roughly 1,100 other riders across Germany, that it …

Greece scraps legal need for lay-off justification

“Greece’s new center-right government has scrapped legislation that required employers to provide a “well-founded” reason for dismissals.” Labor Minister Giannis Vroutsis signed the change into effect Monday, abolishing the rules …

‘Alarming’ rates of sexual harassment and stress among Swiss apprentices

Some two-thirds of apprentices in Switzerland, many of whom are minors, have experienced sexual harassment – one-third of whom say that it occurred in the workplace. This is according to …

EU Directive on Transparent & Predictable Working Conditions in the European Union

With the Directive on transparent and predictable working conditions, workers in the EU will have the right to: more complete information on the essential aspects of their work, to be received …

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 …

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