The ‘right to disconnect’ has changed France for the better – and could soon be law in the UK if Labour goes through with its plansEvery August, the same set of transatlantic memes about work and holiday circulate on social media. The European is depic…
Absolutely everything you need to know about what the opposition party is promising ahead of the July 4 election.
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Jacqueson, Professor of EU law and Alberto Barrio, post-doc on the WorkWel-project, Law Faculty, University of
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Finally, the European Parliament formally
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The Court of Justice of the
European Union in its judgment in Jenkinson
v Council and others ( Case C-46/22 P) of 18 January 2024 dismissed the
appeal brought by Mr…
Lax employment law cited as motivation for ice-cold crossing in which five people died off WimereuxThe mayor of the French seaside resort where five people died off the coast trying to reach the UK has blamed the British immigration system for the cris…
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London*Text updated Dec 22 2023, to add a link to the agreed text of the Directive, and April 12 2024, on its final adoption
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Lord Frost, Brexit negotiator for former PM, tells House of Lords that government never wanted ‘unsatisfactory’ protocol to workRayner says Labour will update trade union laws to make them fit for the 21st century.The laws affecting union reps and offi…
Prime minister says he told Li Qiang, the Chinese prime minister, at G20 that Chinese interference with the work of parliament will ‘never be tolerated’Simon Clarke, who was the levelling up secretary during the Liz Truss premiership, has defended the …
