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,...

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,...

Over roughly the last ten years, there has been an explosion of scholarship on transnational labour law, as commentators attempt to come to terms with the shifting labour law paradigm in the new economy. Most of the work has filled law review pages. Fortunately, Sir Bob Hepple has led the way in...

The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) finds more workers in precarious conditions than at the time of its signing, largely because of fundamental changes in an increasingly integrated, liberalized economy that has transformed the Fordist international division...

The language of ‘human resource management' treats people as a means to an end. Three core tenets of human resource literature are that it is desirable to have (1) labour ‘flexibility' and ‘mobility' in a peripheral workforce, (2) individual (not social) responsibility for employment...

The article presents an analysis of the provisions of Directives 93/104/EC and 2003/88 and of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which supports the conclusion that the characteristic features of working time must be cumulatively met so that a time frame falls within this...

The specificity of the collaborative economy has raised a number of issues with regard to the qualification of legal relationships between workers, final beneficiaries and the online platform that mediates the provision of work, respectively whether between the platform and the worker there is...

This Chapter was initially drafted during the Obama Administration. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) had been negotiated and, although it had not yet been ratified in the United States, the Administration and majority of policymakers were in favor of its implementation. Since that...

The economic and social development is fundamental for the existence of the human factor, who occupies the most important place in the set of production factors, being, beside nature, an “origin" factor. The existence and progress of society is assured if the interaction of the two terms -...