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Using AI to Mitigate the Employee Misclassification Problem
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 […]
Work in prison: Reintegrationor exclusion and exploitation?
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 […]
Labour Justice – A Constitutional Evaluation of Labour Law
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 […]
Labour Law and Economic Policy. How Employment Rights improve the Economy (HART)
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 […]
Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development Leaving No One in the World of Work Behind
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 […]
Mass influx of people from Ukraine: social entitlements and access to the labour market
Description: The book is available at the following link: https://illej.unibo.it/pages/estudies Publication: – includes 25 country reports describing how (on a social and labour market level) individual countries (also from outside […]
Consent to Labour Exploitation
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 […]
Please Give Me a Remedy: Women Human Rights Defenders Mobilize for Occupational Safety and Health
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 […]
Employee Status Preconditions: A Critical Assessment
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 […]