Besides straining international, regional and national employment status classification models, digital labour platforms are pioneering new strategies and approaches in terms of algorithmic management, digital surveillance, remote work and cross-border outsourcing, which are increasingly being...

This paper critically reviews the way in which English judicial decisions have developed the labour law concept of ‘mutuality of obligations'. The paper suggests that the primary purpose of this concept, as originally developed by Mark Freedland, was intended to be that of bringing to the fore...

Policy considerations:• EU competition law imposes limits on the scope of collective labour law, as it precludes self-employed workers from collective bargaining .• There is a rising number of self-employed workers whose livelihood are characterised by increasing precariousness and whose...

The EU-UK TCA goes beyond the diluted, and at times tokenistic, protection of multilateral labour standards contained in the other FTAs concluded by the EU, e.g. with countries like Canada or South Korea.However, the few additional labour clauses it contains, and the overall weak supervision and...

Who is an employee? Which workers ought to be covered by the protective panoply offered by labor law? These are questions with a long history. In the current contribution we consider them from a comparative perspective. Our aim is to highlight similarities and differences between different legal...