This chapter evaluates the importance of judicial decisions, most notably the London Uber case, in awarding intermediate ‘worker' status to self-employed on-demand gig workers. The chapter addresses complex issues of precarity that remain even when workers have some modicum of employment...

In the aftermath of the rejection of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in referendums in France and the Netherlands this article analyses the complex messages delivered by the voters and evaluates key elements of the Constitution from the perspective of European Union (EU)...

Controversy surrounds the Working Time Directive seven years since its implementation, as the European Commission seeks to unpack the compromise that led to the notorious individual opt-out from maximum weekly working time. This article explores the roots of that controversy in the context of...