Description: Labour standards provisions contained within the European Union’s (EU) free trade agreements (FTAs) are a major iteration of attempts to regulate working conditions in the global economy. This article develops an analysis of how the legal and institutional mechanisms…
Description: One aspect also addressed in the Matzak case is the personal scope of the Working Time Directive 2003/88 (WTD), as Mr Matzak is a ‘volunteer firefighter’ and it is not clear if such persons are covered by this piece…
Description: Employment Law and the European Convention on Human Rights is an indispensable and first-of-its-kind book to extensively survey and analyse recent European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR’s) cases relevant to employment law. It delves deep into the informed structural…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…