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 …

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 …

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 Evolution of EU Primary Law and the Court of Justice’s Interpretation of Workers’ Rights – Focus on Workers’ rights relating to business restructurings

Working Paper, please do not cite without permission of the author. Description: The Court of Justice has in multiple instances followed arguments that resulted in business-oriented prerogatives prevailing over workers’ …

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