International Labour Rights: Legitimising the International Legal Order
Description: This paper considers the role of international labour rights in an era of globalisation. It begins from Patrick Macklem’s definition of that role in terms of providing the international legal order with a measure of normative legitimacy. It then…
The Normativity of Core Labour Standards through their inclusion in labour provisions of international Trade Agreements: Towards General Principles of International Law
Description: In 1998, Core Labour Standards have been elevated to the status of “fundamental principles and rights at work” by the International Labour Organization, on the justification that they are enshrined within the core values of the international labour law…
The Reconciliation Project of Labour Law
Description: This paper is available at: ABSTRACT: Historically, in Canada, labour law has not only failed to protect Indigenous working people from the exclusionary logic of (colonization-induced) market capitalism but also marginalized (peripheral and vulnerable) working people among the…
Consent in Contracts of Employment
Description: An article by Maayan Niezna and Guy Davidov This article considers the problem of questionable consent in contracts of employment. We suggest that in the context of employment, consent should be understood as a continuum that includes some level…
International Symposium on New Perspectives on Worker Subordination at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto)
Description: International Symposium on New Perspectives on Worker Subordination at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto). We are pleased to share the videos and the transcription of that discussion, available at this link: For those interested in this topic, some…
Collective Representation and Bargaining for Self-Employed Workers: Final Report
Description: Sara Slinn, “Collective Representation and Bargaining for Self-Employed Workers: Final Report” (Employment and Social Development Canada, 2021). Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents. Paper 220. Abstract This report seeks to identify and discuss feasible models for collective…
Not That Assertive: The EU’s Take on Enforcement of Labour Obligations in Its Free Trade Agreement with South Korea
Description: In 2011, the European Union (EU) concluded the first of a ‘new generation’ of free trade agreements that contained a separate chapter with obligations relating to ‘trade and sustainable development’ (TSD) issues. This was the Free Trade Agreement with…
LABOUR CONSTITUTIONALISM: EFFECTIVE JUDICIAL PROTECTION AS A CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE IN UK LABOUR LAW
Description: Forthcoming in the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal – The position of courts in the architecture of enforcement in UK labour law presents something of a paradox. On the one hand, the courts are almost completely invisible as…
COVID-19 at Work: Exposing how risk is assessed and its consequences in England and Sweden: University of Bristol Research Paper Series 01/22
Description: Accessible at: The crisis which arose suddenly at the beginning of 2020 relating to coronavirus was immediately centred on risk. Predictions had to be made swiftly regarding how it would spread, who it might affect and what measures…