Remarks: The project Panoptiwork organises its closing conference at the University of Groningen, on 2 December 2024. The conference looks at the interdisciplinary intersections of labour and digitalisation. It aims to bring together researchers from diverse fields to discuss the multifaceted impact of the digital society in workplaces. This requires addressing questions about the organisation […]

Remarks: WHAT DO WORKERS WANT, TODAY? An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Representation, Industrial Relations and Labour Law Until the last century, trade unions were the main form of employee participation and inclusion in most Western countries. Things seem to be changing today. Unions, and the traditional forms of representation more generally, have been challenged by social […]

Remarks: We invite you to register for a two day, hybrid (Zoom and in-person) workshop contemplating the upcoming review of the CUSMA/USMCA/T-Mec agreement, focusing on the labour provisions and on the rapid-response mechanism. When the renegotiated Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA / USMCA / T-MEC) took effect on July 1, 2020, there were expectations that the […]

Remarks: The European Lawyers for Workers (ELW) is holding an international conference entitled “Right to strike under attack – legal counterstrategies”. The Hugo Sinzheimer Institute is one of the cooperation partners of this event. The topics of the conference will include the ICJ opinion on the right to strike under ILO Convention No. 87 and […]

Remarks: On Friday 7 March at 9AM (Paris time) the European Birds of Passage team will host a seminar on “(Temporary) Labour Migration and Agriculture in the EU: Time, Borders, and Vulnerabilities". The seminar will provide an interdisciplinary look at the legal construction of temporary labour migration in a selection of EU Member States and […]

Remarks: On behalf of the Scientific Committee of the Marco Biagi Foundation, we are happy to share the Call for Papers and Panels of the 22st Conference in Memory of Marco Biagi, on the theme Employment in the Era of AI and Digital Platforms: Understanding and Regulating Transitions. The Conference will take place in Modena […]

Dear Colleagues & Friends, We are delighted invite you to attend the seventh edition of the Labour Law Research Network Conference that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 29 June to July 1 2025. This will be the first LLRN conference in Asia, and only the second in the Global South. We hope to invest the conference with a distinctly Asian flavour, drawing on the region’s many diversities. LLRN7 Bangkok presents an important opportunity to […]

A system of modern labour law comprises three broad mechanisms: a process by which labour rights and standards are determined and set as legal norms; mechanisms whereby information about the observance of labour standards is obtained and fed back into the system; and processes and mechanisms by which standards can be enforced where necessary. While […]

Bocconi University | Room 205 | Via Sarfatti 25 Milano REGISTRATION FORM ZOOM LINK (Meeting ID: 959 3776 1253; Passcode: 680165) 2.00 pm Session on Labour Moderator Elena Gramano Bocconi University Participants Maurizio Del Conte Bocconi University The Aging Workforce as a New Perspective for Labour Law Catherine Barnard University Of Cambridge Getting Old in […]