Technological rapid developments; new ways of offering services on the market through websites, digital platforms, online providers; fragmentation of the employer’s role into groups or nets of companies that share decisions and processes often outside formal relationships of control or of...

This chapter examines the Italian legal framework regulating the collective rights of self-employed workers. It seeks to investigate potential conflicts (if any) arising between collective labour rights and the application of competition law and free-market policies to self-employed workers and...

Non-standard forms of employment (NSFE) are on the rise in different sectors and various countries all over the world. Concomitantly, technological and organizational change represents a major challenge for collective bargaining systems, given that they are often still predicated on the concept...