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"This essential guide helps trade union reps protect their members from attacks on their terms and conditions by clearly explaining the key features of employment contract law.
Contracts of employment provides reps with the knowledge they need to identify contract breaches, challenge unfair changes to contract terms, and understand their legal rights if changes are imposed. It also includes key recent legal cases to keep reps and workplace activists informed of the latest developments.
This guide also examines:
The position of workers on irregular employment patterns, including zero-hours contracts;
The legal differences between an employee, a worker, and someone who is self-employed; and
Case law on arguing for contractual rights based on custom and practice.
Written in plain English and packed with practical insights, this guide is an indispensable tool for reps who need to defend workplace rights with confidence."

"This unique book offers a comprehensive systematization and overview of the EU´s emerging ‘acquis' and practice of Collective Labour Law. Although the core aspects of Collective Labour Law lie outside the EU's competence to regulate, the laws and industrial relations systems of Member States are undoubtedly influenced by the EU, and the involvement of Social Partners, i.e. representatives of employers and workers, is essential for many aspects of EU law and policy.

Featuring contributions from scholars and practitioners from across Europe, the first part of the book provides an introduction to key aspects, theories and topics of EU Collective Labour Law, including discussion of relevant EU law and case law of the Court of Justice of the EU. Chapters then move on to analyse and reflect on the most fundamental and challenging subtopics, questions and issues in this area, engaging with current debates and potential future developments. Respecting differences in views, approaches, and evaluations, it offers a variety of perspectives on the relationship between Collective Labour Law and the EU."

"The report, Covid-19: An Occupational Disease – Where frontline workers are best protected, analyses and ranks the levels of worker compensation, social security programmes and public health systems. It includes 124 countries, as well as 37 US states, 13 Canadian provinces and territories, and seven Australian states. The top five countries in the report were Argentina, followed by Austria, Sweden, France, and Spain. The overall top ten rated jurisdictions in the study represent only 2% of the world's working population. Just over half (98 jurisdictions) recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease through a formal regulatory process, enabling people who have contracted coronavirus at work access to social protections and entitlements—such as sick pay, medical care, and wage replacement—that would otherwise be denied. This recognition is particularly important for workers who suffer from long-COVID and other ongoing complications from the disease"

"Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever. Although membership levels have decreased, they remain among the world's largest representative organizations and continue to play a significant role as vehicles for democracy, sustainable development and social justice.
This handbook assembles an array of experts to critically engage with the debates and discussions about the role and purpose of unions and the many means by which they seek to attain them. The book provides insights into how unions can meet the challenges of structural changes in the labour market, including technological progress, the green agenda and the digital platform economy, and how they can better represent the needs of their members, in particular migrant, domestic and informal workers.
The book is a valuable resource for industrial relations, labour economics, sociology of work, employment and labour law, history of trade unionism, working patterns and practices, workplace culture and workers' rights."

"Searching for paid tasks via digital labour platforms, such as Uber, Deliveroo and Fiverr, has become a global phenomenon and the regular source of income for millions of people. In the advent of digital labour platforms, this insightful book sheds new light on familiar questions about tensions between competition and cooperation, short-term gains and long-term success, and private benefits and public costs. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge from a range of disciplines, including law, management, psychology, economics, sociology and geography, it pieces together a nuanced picture of the societal challenges posed by the platform economy."

"The case study exam shows that the civil use of drones also concerns production contexts, so talking about drones necessarily implies a reflection on the impact of technology on workers' rights and freedoms. In fact, it is now recognised that the right to privacy is a principle on which identity and psycho-physical integrity, and therefore individual and collective health and safety, are based. Firstly, the main national, international and EU regulations that have intervened over time to regulate the matter and that constitute the state of the art will be examined, namely the Chicago Convention of 7 December 1944 on International Civil Aviation, the special provisions made by the Navigation Code, Regulation (EU) No. 1139/2018 unifying the subject matter and the subsequent implementing Regulations No. 945 and 947 of 2019, in an attempt to systematise and understand whether the set of rules currently in force, starting with strict liability, adequately responds to the needs of the commercial development of the sector and to an effective protection of workers. Market requirements, moreover, require that certain technical standards be met before the product is put into circulation. Drones, although they have very high levels of automation and can be identified by artificial intelligence systems, according to Art 2 para 2 and Art 6 para 1, are, however, only partially affected by the recent Regulation establishing harmonised standards on artificial intelligence. They are classified as high-risk systems and the Regulation only reserves to them the application of certain provisions concerning product conformity requirements for placing on the market or their use, the first of which is the principle of human oversight. Furthermore, the prerogative of regulatory experimentation spaces (the so-called Sandbox) is provided for in article 57 of the AI Act. Has an opportunity for the protection of fundamental rights been missed or are the instruments of legal protection, mainly of the psycho-physical integrity of the worker, also linked to the protection of personal data, still guaranteed by Regulation (EU) No. 679/2016 of 27 April 2016? With this contribution, we intend to demonstrate that the legal institutions contained in the GDPR such as the principle of accountability and in particular privacy by design, DPIA, the tools of negotiation and consultation in the company such as codes of conduct and negotiation with the social partners remain the most protective and effective for the purposes of implementing the principle of transparency and mitigation of the risks underlying operations that employ pervasive technologies such as drones. In particular, the unifying Regulation (EU) No. 1139/2018, which shares with the GDPR the legal institution of privacy by design, will be examined. Having said this, it will be appropriate to examine possible regulatory developments regarding the methods of assessing risk situations to be carried out, if possible, in a shared and preventive manner, right from the development of the software, in order to prepare suitable measures to avert dangerous situations and harmful consequences. Studying an unprecedented technology such as drones in the context of work is, moreover, both an opportunity and a pretext to reflect on the legal strategies and instruments made available by the legislator to limit and control the exercise of employers' powers. Mitigating the objective aspects of liability and allocating it in a different way and not only on the operator is another possible development of the legislation. To the extent that UAVs will be deployed in production contexts, in fact, unprecedented scenarios will open up, which may configure profiles of liability on the part of the employer for the protection of privacy, but will also favour the emergence of unprecedented forms of union bargaining and new organisational models, aimed at strengthening the consent and information of workers as well as improving living and working conditions."
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"Competition law is experiencing a transformation from a niche economic tool to a Swiss knife of broader industrial and social policy. Relatedly, there is a narrative that sees an expansive role for competition law in broad areas such as sustainability, privacy, and workers and labour rights, and a counternarrative that wants to deny it that role. There is rich scholarship on this area, but little empirical backing. In this article, we present the results of a comprehensive empirical research into whether new goals and objectives such as sustainability, privacy, and workers and labour rights are indeed endorsed in EU competition law and practice. We do so through an investigation into the totality of Court of Justice rulings, Commission decisions, Advocate General opinions, and public statements of the Commission. Our findings inject data into the debate and help dispel misconceptions that may arise by overly focusing on cherry-picked high-profile decisions while overlooking the rest of the EU's institutional practice.
We find that sustainability is partially recognised as a goal whereas privacy and labour rights are not. We also show that all three goals are more recent than classic goals, that EU institutions have not engaged much with the areas of sustainability, privacy, and workers and labour rights, and that the Commission's rhetoric is seemingly out of pace with decisional practice. We also identify trends that may bode for change, and we contextualize our analysis through the lens of the history and nature of the EU's integration and economic constitution."

This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.

"The Labour government introduced its Employment Rights Bill on 10 October 2024 which promises to deliver “the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation.”
The Bill includes 28 reforms across nine areas: zero hours; fire and rehire; day one rights; sick pay; flexible working; maternity protection; enforcement; pay bargaining, and trade union rights.
This LRD guide looks in detail at what the Bill contains, including:
• Guaranteed hours for zero-hours and minimum-hours contracts
• Day one dismissal rights and statutory probation
• Restrictions on fire and rehire
• Repeal of restrictive industrial action laws
• Enhanced sick pay and parental leave rights
• Collective bargaining in key sectors
This LRD guide provides essential information. Reps need this guide to raise awareness, advocate for stronger protections, and ensure safer workplaces for all."

"Freedom of movement in the EU is much more developed in terms of economic freedoms than in terms of social and welfare policies. Social insurance arrangements for mobile workers are handled within a reciprocity-based regulatory framework. This article analyses the intra-EU social insurance system from the point of view of highly mobile construction workers. Under the relevant legislation, these workers should receive social insurance either from their home country, if posted by their employer, or from the host country, if moving individually. The article shows, however, that employers often undermine the system to save on labour costs. For those in a weak labour market position, social insurance is unavailable, while those from wealthier welfare states rely on home-country social insurance, and those who are able to, negotiate and navigate complex systems themselves. Consequently, those most in need of social insurance are least able to access it."