Lost in Translation: Rana Plaza, Loblaw, and the Disconnect Between Legal Formality and Corporate Social Responsibility
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…
Beyond National Systems, Towards a ‘Gig Economy’? A Research Agenda for International and Comparative Employment Relations
Description: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, December 2017, Volume 29, Issue 4, pp 247–257 Open access link:
International labour standards and decent work: a critical analysis of Thailand’s experiences, with suggestions for theory, policy, practice and research
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…
Presenteeism, Its Effects and Costs: A Discussion in a Labour Law Perspective
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.
Work 4.0 and the Future of Labour Law
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Digital labour platforms and the future of work – Towards decent work in the online world
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,…
Access to social security for digital platform workers in Germany and in Russia: a comparative study
Description: Forthcoming in in the Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal
“Negotiating the algorithm”: Automation, artificial intelligence and labour protection
Description: ILO Employment Working Paper N. 246/2018 Forthcoming in a 2019 special issue of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal on Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Labour Protection, guest-edited by Valerio De Stefano
“Restoring the Rule of Law” through Commercial (Dis)incentives: The Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016
Description: Anthony Forsyth, ‘‘Restoring the Rule of Law’ through Commercial (Dis)incentives: The Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016’ (2018) 40:1 Sydney Law Review 93-122
Law, Politics And Ideology: The Regulatory Response To Trade Union Corruption In Australia
Description: Anthony Forsyth, ‘Law, Politics and Ideology: The Regulatory Response to Trade Union Corruption in Australia’ (2017) 40:4 University of New South Wales Law Journal 1336-1365