Just Eat to hire its food-delivery riders as employees

Just Eat said Monday that its food-delivery riders in Italy will be hired as employees next year, rather than working on a freelance basis. As a result, the riders will …

Bill on labor rights stirs row in Turkey

It’s not very often that Turkey’s top three labor unions join forces due to their different ideological stances. The Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Türk-İş) is a mainstream labor organization with …

A fascinating chapter in the “gig” saga. How to deliver decent work to platform workers in Italy?

This paper has been prepared for the Peer Review on “Platform Work” within the framework of the Mutual Learning Programme. It provides a comparative assessment of the policy example of …

Hoge Raad: zzp-overeenkomst telt niet, het gaat om de praktijk

Zzp’ers die vinden dat ze eigenlijk in dienst zijn, hebben voortaan meer munitie om een arbeidscontract of bijvoorbeeld een ontslagvergoeding af te dwingen. Dat komt door een uitspraak van de Hoge Raad, …

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Uzbekistan not even close to meriting EU’s trade scheme

Imagine a man has for years been nasty to his family. One day he starts being a little bit nicer to them and promises to get much better in future. …

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A judicial action to extend the health and safety directives to hundreds of thousands of workers

On the 21 October 2020, the IWGB (Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain) presented its argument before the High Court of England and Wales to have the recognition that the UK government …

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Implications of CETA and TTIP on Social Standards

“The impact on European social standards of the trade agreements CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) and TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) has become the subject of a broad …

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International Framework Agreements

New Developments through Better Implementation on the Basis of an Analysis of the Bangladesh Accord and the Indonesian Freedom of Association Protocol “When the negative outcome of globalization in the …

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NEW DRAFT LAW DEALS A MAJOR BLOW TO UKRAINE’S GIG WORKERS

“On November 2, 2020, a group of MPs submitted a draft law No.4303 “On promoting the development of digital economy in Ukraine”. In Labor Initiatives lawyers` opinion, this draft law …

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EU urged to demand tougher Thai labour safeguards before trade talks

The European Union should ensure that Thailand tightens its labour laws as a condition for resuming trade talks, rights groups and big companies said, accusing the country of doing too …

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