Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally shaping everyday life - the world of work is no exception. While the application of AI in the workplace does have many possibilities, it challenges employees' (fundamental) rights. The article's objective is to provide a "glimpse" into the (possible...

'Labour Law Utopias' engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. It explores alternative approaches and what those would mean for work in general, and labour law in particular.

This study on false self-employment (which the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) performed in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs) is based on 4,500 quantitative interviews with the active workforce in Germany. The study delivers a representative...

Irregular employment, broadly understood as employment that is insufficiently covered by formal arrangements either in law or in practice, presents problems for the State in terms of tax revenue and regulation, whether it is undertaken by Irish, EU or non-EU nationals. For non-EU nationals,...

This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world which gathers data from online news media reports and other online sources. For the period January 2017 to July 2020, we identified 1,271 instances of...

Die Arbeit setzt sich kritisch mit den Vor- und Nachteilen der beiden grundlegenden für die EU diskutierten Integrationskonzepte des Systemwettbewerbs und der Harmonisierung auseinander. Anschließend werden diese beiden Strategien auf den Arbeitsmarkt angewandt. Hierbei wird deutlich, daß -...

This paper contributes new evidence from two large household surveys on the compliance of firms with severance pay regulations in Indonesia, and the extent to which changes in severance pay regulations could affect employment rigidity. Compliance appears to be low, as only one-third of workers...

Non-compliance with regulations by enterprises is said to be rife in developing countries. Yet there is limited systematic evidence of the magnitude of non-compliance at the enterprise level. Making innovative use of two complementary data sources, non-compliance for India's Factories Act has...

Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it attractive to be a formal employee. We show that, in locations with frequent inspections, workers pay for...

Häusliche Pflege-Arrangements in Deutschland funktionieren häufig nur, weil eine ausländische Live-in-Pflegekraft beschäftigt wird. Der Bekanntheitsgrad dieses Versorgungsmodells steht seinem rechtlich unsicheren Kontext gegenüber. Wie werden die Arbeitsverhältnisse mit...