Labour laws are designed in part to provide workers with adequate minimum labour standards, including access to collective voice and representation in establishing working conditions. They generally focus on ‘employees' but an increasing number of workers are not employees. As Judy Fudge has...

This article discusses the problem of the meaning of the term ‘worker' as used in ILO Standards, with particular reference to the principles of freedom of association, both in terms of the constitutional obligation to respect those principles, and of the core freedom of association...