Electronic Workplace Monitoring and Human Rights: The Limits to Ontario’s New Algorithmic Monitoring Legislation
Image Description: A robot looking at coding/programming algorithm. In early October 2022, Ontario became the first Canadian province to expressly regulate algorithmic monitoring at work. In terms of recent amendments...
Improving Working Conditions in the Gig Economy: The EU’s Proposed Platform Work Directive
On 8 December 2021, the European Commission published its long-awaited draft of a directive aiming to improve working conditions in the platform (or ‘gig’) economy. In this blog post, we...
Mencap and Uber in the Supreme Court: Working Time Regulation in an Era of Casualisation
In recent weeks, two long-awaited UK Supreme Court judgments have offered strikingly divergent reflections on the meaning and parameters of working time. In Uber, the Court held a group of...
For Whom the Bell Tolls: “Contract” in the Gig Economy
Are Uber drivers ‘limb (b) workers’ and so entitled to fundamental statutory rights such as the minimum wage and working time protections? In a decision of fundamental significance, six Justices...
Uber v Heller and the Prospects for a Transnational Judicial Dialogue on the Gig Economy – II
In the coming days, labour lawyers from around the world will be tuning in to watch the arguments in Uber v Aslam. In terms of the wider ramifications of the...
Uber v Heller and the Prospects for a Transnational Judicial Dialogue on the Gig Economy – I
Across the world, Gig employers are now facing a legal reckoning in the highest courts. On 21st July, the issue of whether Uber drivers are ‘workers’ will be considered by...
