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FIRED, THEN ROBBED Fashion brands’ complicity in wage theft during Covid-19

“The world’s garment workers have been among the hardest hit by the economic ravages of the coronavirus pandemic. Hours and wages have declined for many of those lucky enough to …

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Mencap and Uber in the Supreme Court: Working Time Regulation in an Era of Casualisation

“In recent weeks, two long-awaited UK Supreme Court judgments have offered strikingly divergent reflections on the meaning and parameters of working time. In Uber, the Court held a group of private …

Bridging the Spaces in-between? The IWGB and Strategic Litigation

This report sets out to answer the questions of how and why indie unions may be turning to the courts to build their movement by investigating the IWGB’s litigation strategy. …

Uber’s UK U-turn: the exploitative gig economy employment model is not dead but it may be at an inflection point

“Under normal circumstances, any company making a bombastic declaration that it will partially respect a court decision would be met with a chorus of derision. Yet, Uber’s announcement on 16 March 2021 that …

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After Uber: Purposive Interpretation and the Future of Contract

The Uber BV v Aslam [2021] UKSC 5 (‘Uber (SC)’)judgment from the Supreme Court represents the final chapter in the long-running saga of determining the employment status of drivers who provided trips …

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ILO Working Paper: Platform work and the employment relationship

This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 …

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Lt. Col. Nitisha & Ors v. Union of India & Ors

Supreme Court of India decision: NITISHA finding systemic discrimination that disproportionately impacted women in employment.   The Supreme Court found that although the criteria used to determine a permanent commission was …

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Law and Organizing for Countervailing Power

“Readers of this blog need no reminder of the pervasive inequalities that define American society.  Nor do readers need to be convinced that a perverse concentration of wealth has had …

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THE RIGHT TO FAIR AND SATISFACTORY WORKING CONDITIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

“On June 9th, 2020 (and published on August 28th, 2020), the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, “the Court”) delivered a landmark judgment in the case Spoltore v. Argentina 1and …

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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 …

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