Brexit and collective labour rights
There has been considerable concern expressed regarding the employment rights that British workers would lose by virtue of Brexit. But this is not straightforwardly the case in respect of collective...
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Brexit and Worker Rights
It is now pretty well-known that most of the employment rights in the UK are guaranteed by EU law—the principal exceptions being unfair dismissal and the national minimum wages—as I...
Working time and Brexit: Bad Karma?
Imagine a Karmic invitation to be reborn as a piece of employment legislation. It is very likely that the Working Time Directive (WTD) would be at the very bottom of...
Brexit and the Rights of Casual Workers – Tightroping Without a Safety Net
Against the chorus of ‘scaremongers’ suggesting that Brexit would have disastrous consequences for workers (inevitably leading to a ‘bonfire’ of labour rights) this blogpost seeks to persuade you that a...
Solidarity Not Separation: The Case for Continued Interaction Between UK and EU Law to Further Equal Rights
Employment Minister Priti Patel recently likened women campaigning to leave the EU to the Suffragettes. “Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragette movement did not fight for the right to vote to...
A New Regime for Data Protection in Europe
Almost four years after its initial proposal in January 2012, the finalised text of the General Data Protection Regulation (the Regulation) was agreed in December 2015. It is anticipated to...
EU Gender Action Plan 2016-2020: Transforming the Lives of Girls and Women through EU External Relations
In October 2015, the Council of Ministers of Development adopted the Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2016-2020 of the European Union (EU). The GAP is based on a Staff Working Document...
Our Primordial Attachments- The Roadmap for Linguistic Diversity and New Strategies in Language Rights in Europe
The European Roadmap for Linguistic Diversity, drafted by the Network for Promotion of Linguistic Diversity, is set to be launched on the 16th October 2015, with its implementation beginning in...
Your Facebook Data Just Got a Lot More Secure- Dissecting the Safe Harbor Decision of the CJEU
For fifteen years companies on both sides of the Atlantic relied on Commission Decision 2000/520 (“Commission Decision”) to transfer personal data of EU citizens to USA data centres, until the...
Has the Council of the EU’s Decision on Relocation of Refugees Given Adequate Effect to the Commission’s Proposals?
My previous post analysed some of the immediate and long-term responses to the escalating refugee crisis in Europe proposed by the EU Commission in its State of the Union Address....
Hungary’s Actions: Past the Borderline of International Law
As the European refugee ‘crisis’ worsens, the Hungarian government is resorting to more extreme border control measures that test the parameters of international law. The Guardian reported last week that...
Are the EU Commission’s Latest Proposals Sufficient to Solve the Refugee Crisis?
Both the ‘European family’ and the ‘European fabric’ has laid itself bare in the face of an apparently uncontainable refugee crisis in the heart of Europe. Amidst an atmosphere that...
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