Collective Bargaining

Collective Bargaining, EU Law, European Commission, Gig economy, Platform work

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Representation and Voice of Platform Workers as an Instrumental Tool for Improvement of their working conditions “Ways to improve labour conditions of platform workers” are at the top of the EU’s policy agenda. At the end of 2021, the Commission presented a proposal for a Directive on improving working conditions in platform work (COM(2021)762). Moreover,…

Collective Bargaining, Digitalisation, EU Law, European Parliament, Gig economy, Labour law, Uncategorized

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1) Introduction On December 12, 2022, at first reading, the European Parliament adopted 186 amendments to the Proposal for a directive on improving working conditions in platform work presented by the European Commission on December 9, 2021[1].The proposed directive is part of a package of measures promoted at European level in order to guarantee better…

Collective Bargaining, EU, EU Law, human rights

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The world of work is changing. In this context, the lines that divide self-employed and employed persons are becoming less and less discernible. This phenomenon has led to the numerical increase of dependent self-employed persons who find themselves in a comparable predicament to that of employees, where their weak negotiating position and economic dependency on…

Canada, Collective Bargaining, Covid-19, Labor Law, Labour law, Public Sector Labour Relations

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Are public sector workers called upon to subsidise public sector services? As attention turns away from the Covid-19 pandemic and towards the economic challenges it created, a familiar discussion point arises: how do governments now reduce and/or restrain public spending? Drawing from the immediate past The reduction/restraint approach was adopted in response to the Great…

Belgium, CJEU, Collective Bargaining, EU, Freelancers, ILO, Labor Law, Labour law, Self-employed

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The example of Belgium In the 1960s, employees were by far the most important category of persons active in the private labour market, who traditionally fell within the scope of protective labour law. However, the world of work has changed dramatically in recent decades, with more and more persons taking on other statuses and a…