Yolanda Díaz Pérez’s leftwing government has championed employment reform similar to Labour’s proposals – and she tells British business there is nothing to fearSpain’s leftwing deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz Pérez, has a message for Labour politi…
Federal employees received an email Saturday afternoon, and gave them a deadline of Monday night.
Call for investigation into unfair payment for labourers on seasonal visa scheme When 26-year-old Ben* boarded a flight in Uzbekistan in June, he was looking forward to more than just a summer job picking fruit and vegetables on a British farm.“I wante…
TRG says both candidates have ‘used rhetoric and focused on issues which are far and away from … the values we cherish and uphold’Robert Jenrick, one of the final two Tory leadership candidates, is delivering a speech in London. There is a live feed on…
Labour clamps down on poor working conditions at sea with laws on collective dismissal and minimum wage on cross-Channel ferriesLaws to ensure that the P&O Ferries mass sackings scandal can never recur will be laid before parliament this week as La…
Stephen Weatherill, Somerville
College and Faculty of Law, Oxford University
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Introduction
‘Is this the end of football’s
transfer system?’ So shrieked the media in December 1995 wh…
In the US, I was asked to tip after buying a single banana. To my horror, tip-creep is spreading in French bars and restaurantsAs an American living in Paris, I’m not exactly sure when I first started having moments of culture shock on my visits back t…
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London
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Full disclosure first: After exactly
ten and a half years, I stopped posting on X (formerly Twitter) on August 10,
2024. I cou…
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.
Catherine
Jacqueson, Professor of EU law and Alberto Barrio, post-doc on the WorkWel-project, Law Faculty, University of
CopenhagenPhoto credit: conceptphoto.info, via Flickr
Finally, the European Parliament formally
adopted the directiv…
Antje Kunst*
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Egge, via Wikimedia
Commons
Introduction
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 …
