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,…

Digital Workplace, Digitalisation, EU, Labour law

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The increasing and pervasive use of digital technology in the workplace is accompanied by a growing perception that the current regulatory and definitional frameworks used by legal systems to allocate obligations and protections in labour relations are becoming obsolete and inadequate. The rarefaction of labour law notions This inadequacy is evident in the diminishing significance…

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…

EU, EU Law, European Commission, European Parliament

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On 9 May 2022, the report on the final outcome of the Conference on the Future of Europe, which contained 49 proposals and 320 targetted measures, also in the area of employment and social policy, was presented to the Presidents of the European Parliament (the Parliament), the Council of the European Union (the Council) and…

Future of work, green transition, Labour law

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On 16-17 March 2023, the Twentieth International Conference in Commemoration of Professor Marco Biagi took place in Modena, Italy, at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The title of this conference was: The Green Transition and the Quality of Work: Linkages, Implications, and Perspectives. From health and safety to wellbeing I…

Employment Law, EU Law, Labor Law, Labour law, Remote Work, Telework, USA

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To what extent, if any, will employers permit hybrid working? Hybrid working involves a split of time for workers performing their duties at the employer’s business location and their own homes (though it is possible to work from another location). This is the concept of remote working discussed here. Remote work may also be discussed…

EU, EU Law, In-work poverty, Social Pillar

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A growing body of research is devoted to in-work poverty. This should not come as a surprise. If poverty was long perceived as a problem associated with worklessness, the stubborn reality of high rates of poverty among workers in poor countries and the increasing inequalities in the growth of earnings in richer countries has changed…