Council Directive 2008/104/EC (the Temporary Agency Work Directive, hereinafter the ‘Directive’) was finally approved by European Parliament in October 2008 after nearly three decades of debate and failed attempts at regulation. The issue protecting agency workers first addressed Resolution 21 January 1974 concerning a social action programme ([1974] OJ C13/1) various regulatory had seen, among other things, abortive attempt early 1990s (see proposals COM(90) 228 final [1990] C224/4)...

Journal Article Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law Get access edited by Guy Davidov B Langille [Oxford: Hart, 2006, pp xxiii + 413, hb £45, ISBN 1 8411 3595 X] Nicola Countouris School Law, University Reading Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Industrial Journal, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 250–254, https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwm014 Published: 01 2007

This note critically assesses the Opinion by AG Emiliou on legality of Adequate Minimum Wage Directive 2022/2041 in Case C-19/23. It suggests that, while rightly acknowledges that exclusions from Treaty competencies ‘must be interpreted strictly so as not to unduly affect scope’ (para 55) EU regulatory powers, has failed draw correct conclusions this important principle. broadly - much more than CJEU had ever done previous occasions ‘pay’ exclusion, a way unnecessarily encroaches lawmaking...

The spread of non-standard forms work, including platform has created some friction between labour law and competition law, in particular concerning the collective bargaining self-employed workers. This article aims to suggest a different, complementary rather than antagonistic, relationship law. It initially explores legal construction antagonistic relation which is based on conceptualisation two areas as separate isolated fields. explains that such problematic it leads risk fundamental...

History does have the peculiar habit of repeating itself, albeit, some would argue, through ‘cyclical changes’. Some two centuries ago, Lord Byron's passionate defence Luddite movement in House Lords debate on Framework Bill (of 27 February 1812) exemplified another historical period which, to borrow a phrase used by Brian Bercusson and Cynthia Estlund first 12 chapters their edited book Regulating Labour Wake Globalisation, ‘the balance power’ had ‘shifted away from … labour toward capital’...

Our aim in this article is to analyse the provisions of Trade Union Act 2016 that deal with pre-strike ballots and picketing. We also consider Government proposals legislate respect protests associated industrial action (‘leverage action’), which were abandoned favour plans amend Code Practice on Picketing. note suggestion made by several commentators Opposition politicians might have intended these changes make it significantly more difficult for trade unions workers exercise their rights...

The spread of non-standard forms work, including platform has created some friction between labour law and competition law, in particular concerning the collective bargaining self-employed workers. This article aims to suggest a different, complementary rather than antagonistic, relationship law. It initially explores legal construction antagonistic relation which is based on conceptualisation two areas as separate isolated fields. explains that such problematic it leads risk fundamental...

This is a draft of paper prepared for the ILO RDW Conference, 9 July 2019. It develops Marxian inspired theorization 'work' with view better understanding nature, legal, and socio-economic implications, process what Ekbia Nardi refer to as 'heteromation' - extraction value from low cost or free labour in computer mediated networks'. uses this argue that heteromated must still be seen work capitalist sense, notwithstanding it lacks many hallmarks traditionally associated employment. As...

This article engages critically with an emergent rhetoric suggesting that Member States and trade unions seeking to apply their domestic social standards foreign service providers, in the context of what EU lawyers refer as ‘Free movement Services’, engage practices amounting economic protectionism. To countervail this rhetoric, paper revisits some regulatory principles rationales underpinning law on Movement Workers’ draws a number parallels between them regulate, or ought other freedoms de...