Foster parents and fundamental labour rights

The work of parenting is a labour of love. There is no work that is harder and there is no work that is more rewarding. How many parents have reflected …

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UK: “Uber, the Taylor Review, Mutuality and the Duty Not to Misrepresent Employment Status”

This article discusses how recent United Kingdom (“U.K.”) court cases support the argument that U.K. employers have a responsibility to not misrepresent the employment status of their staff. The article …

Pimlico Plumbers Ltd c Smith

Un résumé utile de la décision de la Cour suprême, concluant que le plombier en question était en fait un ouvrier de Pimlico, est exposé dans: Amie Tsang, Cour britannique […]

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“The UK Government’s consultation on employment classification and control: A response”

In this response to the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) government’s 2018 consultation efforts on how to define employment status, the authors focused on one element under consideration by the U.K. government …

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UK: “Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers’ Initiative Within and Outside Trade Unions”

In this article, the authors explore the experiences of low-paid Latin-American workers in London. They examine how established trade unions have sought to represent these workers, using conventional organizing strategies, …

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“Trade unions and migrant workers: New contexts and challenges in Europe” in Chapter 11, “Trade unions and migrant workers in the UK: Organising in a cold climate”

[This book “analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015.”] [Quoted from ILO book sales page: …

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“Indirect Discrimination, Justification and Proportionality: Are UK Claimants at a Disadvantage?”

In this article, the authors discuss how both the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) approach the standard of scrutiny for the …

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UK: “Work in Britain’s Informal Economy: Learning from Road-Side Hand Car Washes”

This article examines the phenomenon of a rapid increase in hand car washes in the UK. In this context, the authors ask what this increase tells us about “informalization of …

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Syndicat des travailleurs indépendants de Grande-Bretagne (IWGB) et RooFoods Limited T / A Deliveroo

Le IWGB (le syndicat) a soumis à la CAC une demande datée du 28 novembre 2016 demandant à ce que RooFoods Limited, société de négociation collective, soit reconnue pour négociation…

UBER BV contre Aslam

Ici, Uber a perdu son recours contre une décision selon laquelle ses chauffeurs sont correctement qualifiés de travailleurs. La conductrice Yaseen Aslam avait déjà remporté une affaire devant un tribunal du travail en 2016 qui citait…

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