This note analyses laws which license labour hire services and sanction those who fail to obtain licenses, or contract for labour hire services with parties who do not hold such a licence. While employment remains the primary means of regulating work, a significant percentage of the workforce...

Port truckers pick up and deliver containers at seaports. In the United States, since trucking deregulation in 1981, they have been working as independent contractors for mostly small trucking firms. These companies contract with shippers to deliver containers. They firms are small and usually...

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The inter-disciplinary and international approach invigorates current debates through the identification of new challenges, subjects and perspectives