Description: Author(s) : Valerio De Stefano and Mathias Wouters This Foresight Brief examines whether digital labour platforms should be treated as private employment agencies. Platforms like LinkedIn may rightfully be perceived by the general public to be mere social networks,…
Description: Slinn, Sara, Broader-based and Sectoral Bargaining Proposals in Collective Bargaining Law Reform: A Historical Review (December 1, 2018). Available at SSRN: or
Description: by Mirela Ivanova, Joanna Bronowicka, Eva Kocher, Anne Degner Drawing on interviews with self-employed riders at Deliveroo and employed riders at Foodora, we compare how the App affects the interplay between autonomy and control of riders, and how the…
Description: SSRN download: Abstract: Canada’s largest retailer was a major buyer from factories in Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza when the building collapsed in 2013 killing 1,130 people. Most of the dead and injured were workers employed in factories that were…
Description: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, December 2017, Volume 29, Issue 4, pp 247–257 Open access link:
Description: Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources(2018) 56, 539–565 Open access link: Key points 1 The ILO labour standards are significant international conventions, recommendations, declarations and protocols that may influence national labour laws and industrial relations. 2 The impact…
Description: ‘Presenteeism, Its Effects and Costs: A Discussion in a Labour Law Perspective’. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 34, no. 1 (2018): 53–76.
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Description: Janine Berg (ILO), Marianne Furrer (ILO), Ellie Harmon (Encountering Tech), Uma Rani (ILO) and M. Six Silberman (IG Metall) Digital labour platforms and the future of work: Towards decent work in the online world International Labour Office – Geneva,…