Reflexive law, corporate social responsibility and the evolution of labour standards: the case of working time

Through an empirical study of working time in the United Kingdom, we explore the scope for initiatives based on corporate social responsibility (CSR) to engender voluntary action by employers to raise labour standards. Our evidence suggests that a CSR-based approach faces considerable problems of implementation in this area, in large part because the legal mechanisms which might underpin CSR ('reflexive law') have not yet been effectively developed.corporate social responsibility, labour standards

Opting Out Of The 48-Hour Week – Employer Necessity Or Individual Choice? An Empirical Study Of The Operation Of Article 18(1)(B) Of The Working Time Directive In The UK

The EU Working Time Directive has so far had little impact on an ingrained culture of long-hours working in the UK. Case studies suggest that the use of individual opt-outs from the 48-hour limit on weekly working time is a principal reason for this. However, removal of the individual opt-out (currently under consideration at EU level) is unlikely to make much difference to UK practice in the absence of a wider review of working time policy. In particular, the UK’s individualised system of workplace bargaining is currently ill-placed to adapt to a continental European model of working time regulation.working time, labour standards, collective bargaining, European Union

The view from East Anglia: Brexit messages to Theresa May

What do the public in East Anglia, where both Leave (in rural Lincolnshire) and Remain (in Cambridge) polled strongly, want from Brexit? Catherine Barnard (left) and Amy Ludlow held public engagement events in school halls, community centres, prisons and market squares in parts of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire in early 2017. They found a striking degree of moderate consensus: a desire for Single Market access with a rebalanced free movement of people. That said, despite Theresa May’s claim that the country is coming together, discussions revealed deep wounds and a divided society, generationally and geographically

What minimum wage? Why enforcement of EU migrants’ employment rights matters

EU migrants nominally enjoy the same employment rights as Britons. Yet (left to right) Catherine Barnard, Amy Ludlow and Sarah Fraser Butlin of the EU Migrant Worker Project found that they are often ignorant of the minimum wage and the Working Time Directive and do not pursue claims in Employment Tribunals. In this they are sometimes aided and abetted by exploitative employers who are willing to use them to undercut the wages of UK staff. They also found that enforcement of employment rights in the UK is, at best, patchy

What the Experiences of the Recent Past Tell Us About the Labor and Employment Law Issues of the Future (Roundtable Discussion)

Symposium: New Rules for a New Game: Regulating Employment Relationships in the 21st Century, held at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington

Self-employment in UK law

The United Kingdom has noted a rapid increase in the number of self-employed persons in the last forty years. This has prompted a return to the debate on the regulation of this category of workers. What are the key characteristics of the self-employed? Are they covered by labour law and social security regulations? This chapter answers these questions by looking at the legal framework applicable to the self-employed in the UK. In section 2, the author characterizes the main tendencies regarding self-employed activity in the United Kingdom as presented in a report of the Office of National Statistics for 2020. In sections 3 and 4, she analyses the definition and the legal framework that guarantee protection applicable to the self-employed. The author places particular emphasis on the tri-partite character of the British legal system in individual employment law, which includes certain categories of self-employed in the British definition of worker. Finally, section 5 is devoted to the ever more popular phenomenon of “bogus self-employment” and the legal mechanisms designed to combat it

Le processus de Lisbonne revisité : stratégie Europe 2020 et politiques d'ègalite

El capítulo 5 (páginas 147-174) no es accesible por derechos de autor.Esta monografia recoge las contribuciones, debates y conclusiones del Seminario Internacional sobre las politicas de igualdad y el Proceso de Lisboa que se celebró en Madrid el 23 de junio de 2010, dentro del Proyecto de Investigación nº 151160-LLP-1-2009-1-ES-AJM-CL, financiado por la Comisión Europea. Dicho seminario contó igualmente con el apoyo financiero del Vicerrectorado de lnvestigación (Proyectos nº 2010/00235/001 y n º 2010/00235/002), y del Vicerrectorado de Igualdad y Cooperación de la UCIIIM, así como con el auspicio de la Embajada de la República de Francia en España

Long read: how to deploy the emergency brake to manage migration

Freedom of movement is one of the 'red lines' that preclude Britain's continuing membership of the Single Market: the PM believes the referendum was a clear rejection of the principle. But could the UK deploy an 'emergency brake' at regional (rather than national) level to help manage EU migration and thereby qualify for European Economic Area membership? Catherine Barnard and Sarah Fraser Butlin (University of Cambridge) look at how it might be possible to allay Leavers’ fears

UE2020 : le processus de Lisbonne revisité

Las páginas 119-138 no son accesibles por derechos de autor.Este libro recoge las ponencias presentadas en el "11 International Workshop", "EU2020: The Lisbon Process revisited", celebrado en Madrid el 28 de septiembre de 2011, en el marco del Proyecto de lnvestigación de la Acción J. Monnet, n" 154460-LLP-1-2009-1-ES-AJM-CL, y del Proyecto del Programa Propio de Investigación de la Universidad Carlos Ill de Madrid, n" 2011/003 73/001, y, con el auspicio de la Embajada de la República de Francia en España