Will the internet, robotics and artificial intelligence mean a ‘jobless future'? A recent narrative, endorsed by prominent tech-billionaires, says we face mass unemployment, and we need a basic income. In contrast, this article shows why the law can achieve full employment with fair incomes,...

What explains the election for the 45th President of the United States? Many commentators have said that Trump is a fascist. This builds on grave concern, since Citizens United, that democracy is being corrupted. This article suggests the long term cause, and the shape of ideology is more...

Do employing entities have a responsibility to not misrepresent the employment status of their staff? This article suggests that recent jurisprudence does create this responsibility. The article starts, first, by discussing the much-awaited Taylor Review, released in July 2017. This purported to...

The chapter covers labour rights in modern corporate governance including (1)(a) votes for corporate boards (b) enforcing directors' duties (2) work councils, both full participation, and the weaker information and consultation duties, and (3) rights in workers' capital, particularly through...

Will the internet, robotics and artificial intelligence mean a ‘jobless future'? A recent narrative, endorsed by prominent tech-billionaires, says we face mass unemployment, and we need a basic income. In contrast, this article shows why the law can achieve full employment with fair incomes,...

In The Concept of the Employer (2015) Jeremias Prassl develops an elegant model to find who bears labour and employment law duties. It offers a logical complement to the multi-factor test to determine who is an 'employee.' This is meant to ensure the effectiveness of social rights in employment,...

This short article sets out A Twelve Point Plan for Labour, after a review of the pathbreaking Manifesto for Labour Law, written by a host of the most distinguished labour lawyers from Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. The essence, which became official policy at the Labour Party Conference...

Why do shareholders monopolise voting rights in UK companies, and are trade unions the only way to get meaningful workplace representation? In 1967 a Labour Party policy document first coined the phrase that collective bargaining was – and should be – the ‘single channel' of...

Do corporations increase inequality? Rising inequality of income and wealth has recently been linked to corporate governance, but closer analysis is still developing. This article provides a conceptual grammar to understand the problem. Which ‘significantly distributive rules' affect the...