This blogpost revisits the 2011 UK Supreme Court decision in Jivraj v Hashwani [2011] UKSC 40, which adopted a narrow reading of the personal scope of the Equality Act 2010 as it …
Nicola Countouris
Social Europe needs a new concept of ‘worker’
“The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated A quarter of a century after Alain Supiot advocated a comprehensive extension of labour and social rights ‘beyond employment’, labour-law regimes …
Platform-work directive: the clock is ticking
After more than two years of intense negotiation and some dissonance, the fate of the European Union platform-work directive hangs in the balance. In December, a provisional agreement reached in …
ILO Working Paper: An unfinished task? Matching the Platform Work Directive with the EU and international “social acquis”
“Besides straining international, regional and national employment status classification models, digital labour platforms are pioneering new strategies and approaches in terms of algorithmic management, digital surveillance, remote work and cross-border …
Making labour law fit for all those who labour
In December 2017, ‘JK’ and his partner published on their YouTube channel a Christmas music video aimed at promoting tolerance towards same-sex couples. Two days later, JK received an email from his …
The metaverse is a labour issue
“In mid-January, the news that Microsoft was investing almost $70 billion in the ‘metaverse’ hit the headlines. Yet it was only the latest in a series of such massive investments. Technology companies …
Collective bargaining and self-employed workers: The need for a paradigm shift
The European Commission (hereafter Commission) has recently embarked into a process seeking to redefine the scope of competition law in order to reduce the chilling effect that certain judgments by …
The EU, Competition Law and Workers’ Rights
“The paper delves into the ways in which EU competition law affects the right of workers to combine with each other and act, collectively, in the furtherance of their rights …
The Labour Law Framework: Self-Employed and Their Right to Bargain Collectively
“This paper focuses on the right to collective bargaining of self-employed workers vis-à-vis antitrust law under a European and International perspective. It argues that the current approach of the Court …
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Amazon’s office mandate: The hidden power play behind workplace control
In an abrupt move that has reignited debates about working from home, Amazon has recently ordered its white-collar employees to return to the office five days a week, abandoning any …