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"This report summarises how minimum wage rates for 2021 were set during 2020 – the year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviews the difficulties faced by national decision-makers and how they reacted to the challenges of the economic and social fall-out of the pandemic when making decisions regarding the minimum wage. It maps the extent to which minimum wages were referred to in COVID-19-related support measures. It discusses advances made on the EU initiative on adequate minimum wages and maps the reactions of the EU-level social partners and national decision-makers. The report is accompanied by two complementary working papers: one providing an analysis of developments for low-paid employees and minimum wage workers over the past decade; the other summarising the most recent research on minimum wages in EU countries, Norway and the UK."

"In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary describes and compares shifting employment and occupational health social protections of low-wage workers, including self-employed digital platform workers. Through a focus on eight advanced economy countries, this paper identifies how employment misclassification and definitions of employees were handled in law and policy. Debates about minimum wage and occupational health and safety standards as they relate to worker well-being are considered. Finally, we discuss promising changes introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic that protect the health of low-wage and self-employed workers. Overall, we describe an ongoing “haves” and a “have not” divide, with on the one extreme, traditional job arrangements with good work-and-health social protections and, on the other extreme, low-wage and self-employed digital platform workers who are mostly left out of schemes. However, during the pandemic small and often temporary gains occurred and are discussed."

"Das Grundverständnis der Tarifautonomie ist in begrifflicher und normativer Hinsicht stark umstritten. Das derzeit herrschende und auch von der Rechtsprechung vertretene Verständnis von Tarifautonomie als kollektiv ausgeübter Privatautonomie verkürzt konzeptionell ihre Reichweite, schlägt sich in der Handhabung des geltenden Tarifvertragsrechts restriktiv nieder und stellt sich wichtigen Reformanliegen zur staatlichen Stützung des Tarifvertragssystems entgegen. Diesem herrschenden Verständnis – argumentiert der Autor – ist in der Rechtswissenschaft, vor den Arbeitsgerichten und in der Rechtspolitik entgegenzuhalten, dass es sich bei der Tarifautonomie um eine Form der politischen Autonomie handelt. Tarifautonomie befugt frei gebildete Koalitionen als Tarifvertragsparteien zu einer von staatlicher Politik unabhängigen Setzung von Rechtsnormen. Die Ausübung dieser autonomen Befugnis ist notwendig, um die Arbeitsbeziehungen gerecht zu gestalten. Darum ist die Sicherung der Funktionsfähigkeit der Tarifautonomie eminente staatliche Aufgabe, die von staatlicher Politik schon allzu lange sträflich vernachlässigt wird."

"The gigification of work has—in line with global trends—reached the highly-regulated Swedish labour market, with its high degree of both union density and coverage of collective bargaining agreements—and high labour costs. More and more gig workers are becoming union members, and in late January 2021 the first Swedish collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for food delivery platform workers (riders) was concluded between the Transport Workers' Union and Foodora. The article illustrates to what extent, and how, the inherited formulas for trade union activity and collective bargaining are made relevant for platform-mediated work. The role of old actors and regulatory means are put to use in the ‘new' labour market. This article provides an analysis of the first CBA in the Swedish gig economy and illustrates how pre-existing labour law norms are both a restraining and an enabling factor for trade unions and collective bargaining in the gig economy. What can be learned about the nature of work in the gig economy or platform-mediated work from the way it has been integrated into the Swedish model for labour relations with its particular traits? Or, what can be learned from the first CBA in the gig economy in the promised land of collective bargaining?"

"The 2023 annual review of minimum wages was prepared in the context of unprecedented inflation across Europe. While this led to hefty increases in nominal wage rates in many countries, it was in many cases not enough to maintain workers' purchasing power. Based on developments over the last decade, this report shows that, overall, minimum wage earners in nearly all countries saw their purchasing power rising, the gap between their wages and average wages narrowing, and to some degree growth exceeding labour productivity development. Despite the short-term losses in real terms, these longer-term gains did not disappear in 2023. Even in the context of rising inflation, the processes of wage setting did not change substantially. But the early impacts of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages are noticeable, with more countries electing to use the international ‘indicative reference values' mentioned in the directive – 50% of the average or 60% of the median wage – when determining their targets for new levels. This year's report presents, for the first time, an in-depth insight into net minimum wages for single adults, through the EUROMOD tax–benefit microsimulation model, while presenting the latest research findings on minimum wages, published during 2022."

"This article sets out the case for co-determination in the context of work, with a particular emphasis on why this is mandated in relation to algorithmically managed work and workplaces in particular. Having set out the theoretical case for collective regulation of algorithmic management that includes extensive rights of co-determination, focusing on the power relations implied by algorithmic management for this purpose, the article goes on to explore the current state of collective regulation of algorithmic management in the UK and in Germany. From here, it explores existing EU law mechanisms relating to algorithmic management, highlighting their limits and potential, and identifying how, and in what ways, the blueprint outlined by Adams-Prassl et al in this Special Issue might be further elaborated and improved. The article then presents certain proposals for how to establish conditions conducive to the introduction of co-determination in the EU, both generally and in relation to algorithmic technologies more specifically, while engaging critically with the potential and the limitations of legal, top-down—as opposed to bottom-up—mechanisms to achieve this end."