The Future of Unions and Worker Representation: The Digital Picket Line

“The Future of Unions and Worker Representation, written by Professor Anthony Forsyth, thoroughly examines four countries and industrial relations systems—Australia, the UK, the USA, and Italy—to assess and contrast their …

Amsterdam: Uber and Ola-Cabs must better inform London taxi drivers about automatic decisions

Uber and Ola-Cabs must provide taxi drivers using the Uber Driver /Ola Driver app with more information about the making of important decisions concerning them. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal decided …

How Spain has taken on the problem of precarious work

Europe’s workers are famously well-protected by rights and regulations, but the continent’s dirty secret is that they don’t extend to everyone. Countries such as France, Spain, Italy and Portugal have …

Sunak’s anti-union laws would make UK ‘international outlier’, lawyers say

Rishi Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation would make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the democratic world in which to go on strike and may breach treaty …

BACK TO THE DARK AGES? Q-COMMERCE, RAPID RETAIL AND THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF RETAIL WORK

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a boom in the on – line grocery market and rapid-delivery services, with the emergence of new quick-commerce (q-commerce) startups delivering from “dark stores.” …

EU Parliament moves to end gender pay gap — this time for good

The European Parliament on Thursday approved binding pay-transparency rules in a bid to tackle the gender salary gap across the EU. That will put pressure on employers, who will now …

The platformisation of work

“This report provides a first approximation to the emerging phenomenon of platformisation of work, with an empirical analysis of data from the new JRC Algorithmic Management and Platform Work survey …

Deliveroo riders are employees, Dutch Supreme Court rules

Riders working for meal delivery service Deliveroo are employees, not self-employed, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday, in a legal decision which will have an impact across the platform …

Dutch NCP: Final Statement FNV vs Just Eat Takeaway.com (OECD Complaint)

“On 22 March 2023, the Dutch NCP published the Final Statement on the specific instance of the Dutch trade union FNV vs Just Eat Takeaway.com. The notification regards alleged violations …

Macron uses special powers to force through plan to raise pension age

The French government has used controversial special constitutional powers to force through a rise in the pension age amid chaotic scenes in parliament in which radical left MPs sang La …

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