This article depicts the role played by legal regulation of domestic work in Israel. The article commences with a short description of how care work has developed in Israel. Following this historic exposition, we present three legal "stories" that demonstrate the dual role of law (reflective and...

Subcontracting — the practice of using intermediaries to contract workers, whether through temp agencies, manpower agencies, franchise, or other multilayered contracting — is an increasingly popular pattern of employment worldwide. Whether justified from a business perspective or not,...

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...

English Abstract: Articolul cuprinde o sinteză a reglementării naţionale a măsurilor de protecţia a salariaţilor în cazul transferului de întreprinderi, unităţi sau părţi de întreprinderi sau unităţi şi, mai important, o sinteză a jurisprudenţei Curţii de Justiţie a Uniunii...

In this article, we examine issues with respect to the adoption of a voluntary code of conduct, addressing the social standards in the garment sector in Turkey. We try to shed some light on the following critical question: does the adoption of voluntary CoC cause the marginalization of the role...

The Supreme Court’s recent decisions interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) in the employment context generally prioritize arbitration over workers’ labor law rights. The majority in Epic Systems upheld mandatory individual employment arbitration agreements despite their conflict...

The authors analyse why the institution of non-unionised employees' representatives (NER) is created if its functions overlap with those of the unions, including collective bargaining and information-consultation. We aim to find how NERs are created and what their role in comparison to unionised...

Co-determination is not only a political, social and legal issue, it is also an issue of great economic importance. However, there is no consensus what the economic effects of co-determination are. There are vehement proponents for and equally dedicated opponents against co-determination in the...

English Abstract The groups of companies are an economic reality without regulation of a general nature, with only specific regulations in certain areas. Working relationships within groups of companies have certain peculiarities. In court practice, there were identified situations in which an...

It addresses the strike rights of employees in essential services in the United States of America. Unlike at least most European countries, U.S. laws do not define ‘essential services’ for the purpose of strike rights, and generally such laws do not follow the rules the International Labour...