This article analyzes the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) decision C-485/2020, dated February 10th 2022, on the issue of whether an employer is legally obliged to relocate a disabled employee …
Danish pension fund ditches Wizz Air over labour rights
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension said on Monday it was selling its stake in budget airline Wizz Air (WIZZ.L) over alleged “human and labour rights abuses” towards its workers. The $23 billion fund …
EU: Draft Guidelines on collective bargaining of self-employed
The draft Guidelines aim to ensure that competition law does not stand in the way of collective agreements to improve the working conditions of certain self-employed persons, who may have …
Inside Spain’s failed plan to fix the gig economy
On 12 August 2021, Spain became the first European country to significantly regulate the gig economy. The Supreme Court, ruling in favour of a former gig economy rider, declared that …
James Finlay tea: Kenyan workers win right to class action against Scots firm
REPRESENTATIVES of hundreds of Kenyan plantation workers have won a bid to take a multi-million-pound negligence action against a Scottish tea firm. Aberdeen-based tea company James Finlay (Kenya) Ltd, which …
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Digital Transition: An Opportunity to Advance Labour Rights
“With the digital transition, the precise definition of the future of work (its social and human dimensions) requires urgent attention. Recent policymaking developments tell us a little more about whether …