“The UK Government’s consultation on employment classification and control: A response”

In this response to the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) government’s 2018 consultation efforts on how to define employment status, the authors focused on one element under consideration by the U.K. government …

UK: “Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers’ Initiative Within and Outside Trade Unions”

In this article, the authors explore the experiences of low-paid Latin-American workers in London. They examine how established trade unions have sought to represent these workers, using conventional organizing strategies, …

“Trade unions and migrant workers: New contexts and challenges in Europe” in Chapter 11, “Trade unions and migrant workers in the UK: Organising in a cold climate”

[This book “analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015.”] [Quoted from ILO book sales page: …

“Indirect Discrimination, Justification and Proportionality: Are UK Claimants at a Disadvantage?”

In this article, the authors discuss how both the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) approach the standard of scrutiny for the …

UK: “Work in Britain’s Informal Economy: Learning from Road-Side Hand Car Washes”

This article examines the phenomenon of a rapid increase in hand car washes in the UK. In this context, the authors ask what this increase tells us about “informalization of …

Syndicat des travailleurs indépendants de Grande-Bretagne (IWGB) et RooFoods Limited T / A Deliveroo

Le IWGB (le syndicat) a soumis à la CAC une demande datée du 28 novembre 2016 demandant à ce que RooFoods Limited, société de négociation collective, soit reconnue pour négociation…

UBER BV contre Aslam

Ici, Uber a perdu son recours contre une décision selon laquelle ses chauffeurs sont correctement qualifiés de travailleurs. La conductrice Yaseen Aslam avait déjà remporté une affaire devant un tribunal du travail en 2016 qui citait…

The Employment Status of Uber Drivers A Comparative Report Prepared For The Social Law Project, University Of The Western Cape

Oxford Pro Bono Publico University sponsored research project from 2017 highlighting the status of Uber drivers in a variety of jurisdictions with a comparison between drivers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, …

UK: Unison, R (on the application of) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51

The ruling in this appellate case, which applies both to the public and private sectors, addressed whether fees imposed upon a person who wishes to pursue proceedings in an Employment …

UK: Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices (the “Taylor Review”)

The Taylor Review is the 116-page document on which the December 2018 United Kingdom (“U.K.”) “Good Work Plan” was based. The Taylor Review is an independent report commissioned in 2016 …

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