Description: Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is widespread. This article aims to make two contributions. My first goal is to sharpen the explanation of why misclassifications persist; I argue that three well-known problems – the indeterminacy of employee status…
The NLUD Journal on ‘LABOUR’ is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue. It is published by the *Centre for Labour Law Research and Advocacy at the National Law University, Delhi.* This double-blind and peer-reviewed annual journal focuses on interdisciplinary…
Description: Work opportunities in prison can be valuable for the incarcerated. However, prison labour pre-sents significant challenges because of its location behind prison walls away from the public eye,where prison authorities exercise unprecedented power over individuals. Even though work isnot…
This book argues that the imagination of the worker-citizen, inherent in citizens’ constitutional duty to work, is the very foundation of constitutional citizenship and its social justice agenda. The design of social justice in the constitution takes labour as its…
Description: This book studies labour institutions from an economic perspective to justify their existence and the advantages that they bring to innovation, efficiency, productivity, and economic growth. The philosophical foundations of labour law rely on the protection of the weaker…
Description: Tonia Novitz’s new book was published in the Edward Elgar Labour Law series, Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development: Leaving No One in the World of Work Behind. The book is now available in hard copy and as an e-book.…
Description: The book is available at the following link: Publication: – includes 25 country reports describing how (on a social and labour market level) individual countries (also from outside the EU) have dealt with the mass influx of people…
Description: This article argues there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the role of consent to labour exploitation. However, there is significant value in considering the theoretical underpinnings of different legal interventions addressing labour exploitation. The article first explores different theoretical…
Description: This article investigates the strategies that women human rights defenders use to engage in legal mobilization and overcome gendered barriers to justice. It does so through analysis of a specific health and safety dispute involving women workers and the…
Description: Much has been written about the legal tests that exclude independent contractors from employment and labor law coverage. Less attention has been devoted to courts’ use of classification processes that invoke some preliminary requirements (i.e. preconditions for employee status)…