Zero Hours – Zero Solutions
Over the course of the past year, we have repeatedly highlighted the problems facing workers on so-called ‘zero-hours contracts’ (‘ZHCs’), and criticised the government’s inadequate regulatory response in the Small...
Labour Rights
Trafficking of human beings at the ECtHR: Broadening the protection of women and girls through Article 14
Two Spanish cases currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) illustrate the gaping lacuna in the protections extended to trafficked women on the continent. They also, however,...
A Right to Change Employer for Overseas Domestic Workers
Theresa May, the UK Home Secretary, presented the adoption of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 as a ‘historic milestone’, but many viewed it as a missed opportunity. During its drafting,...
Dignifying Movement: Advocating for Reform of Irish Labour Migration Policy
Migration is a global reality that has increasingly become the subject of academic and popular debate. Last week, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) contributed to the discussion by publishing a...
Bob Hepple’s Legacy in Southern Africa
I would like to devote my tribute specifically to Bob’s legacy in Southern Africa. Simon Deakin in his tribute stated that Bob had two legal lives in which he distinguished...
Tyco: Travel, Working Time, Wages and the Route to Casualisation
As casualisation strategies proliferate in the wake of the global crisis, techniques are being devised to exclude discrete time-periods from the working day. Travel time is a disputed zone, especially...
Professor Sir Bob Hepple’s Contribution to Comparative Labour Law
As part of our special series paying tribute to the life and work of Professor Sir Bob Hepple, Silvana Sciarra recalls her personal experience of working with Bob Hepple in...
Prof. Sir Bob Hepple Q.C. (1934 – 2015)
Continuing our special series of posts paying tribute to the life and work of Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC, Manfred Weiss reflects on Bob Hepple’s extensive scholarship on labour law...
Bob Hepple’s Equality Legacy
This is the first in our special series of posts paying tribute to the life and work of Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC, who sadly passed away in August this...
Employee Rights in Zimbabwe: The Contrasting Approaches of the Constitutional Court and Executive in Response to Nyamande and Another v Zuva Petroleum
As discussed recently on the Blog, the Zimbabwean Supreme Court’s interpretation of Section 12B of the Labour Act (hereinafter ‘Act’)in the case of Nyamande and another v Zuva Petroleum SC...
UNISON v Lord Chancellor: The Statistics of Tribunal Fees in the Court of Appeal
As discussed previously on the Blog, fees in the employment tribunal were introduced across England, Wales and Scotland in July 2013, requiring a claimant to pay fees when presenting a...
United States Labor Relations Board Cowardly Punts its Duties
Earlier this month, the United States witnessed a major setback for freedom of association. The National Labor Relations Board (the Board)– the U.S. agency charged with “encouraging the practice and...
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