Workers Without Workplaces and Unions Without Unity: Non-Standard Forms of Employment, Platform Work and Collective Bargaining

Aloisi, Antonio; Gramano, Elena

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Workers Without Workplaces and Unions Without Unity: Non-Standard Forms of Employment, Platform Work and Collective Bargaining

dc.contributor.author	Aloisi, Antonio
dc.contributor.author	Gramano, Elena
dc.contributor.editor	Pulignano, Valeria
dc.contributor.editor	Hendrickx, Frank
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dc.date.accessioned	2024-11-26T16:17:48Z
dc.date.available	2024-11-26T16:17:48Z
dc.date.issued	2019-05-14
dc.description.abstract	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 of a standard employment relationship. Meanwhile, some innovative and spontaneous solutions are emerging. In order for collective bargaining, unions, and business associations to continue to be impactful in the “new world of work”, it may be necessary to adapt the way they currently operate. There may also be a need to adjust or update the relevant legal frameworks. This article investigates challenges to freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining for non-standard workers, from a legal and practical perspective. In particular, the article examines the relevant legal framework with a critical approach and stresses the relevance of legal hurdles that non-standard workers face. After presenting the legal determinants of NSFE, the paper provides an analysis of existing legal frameworks regulating the organization of non-standard forms of work and the negotiation of terms and conditions of work at the supranational level, with a particular focus on the implications related to competition law and its rigid limits in the European Union system. Finally, it sketches a mapping of nascent initiatives of workers’ organization, by distinguishing classic resources of unionization from other tools (e.g. social media groups, strategic litigation, rating widgets) in a selection of European Union countries.
dc.description.peerreviewed	yes
dc.description.status	Published
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dc.identifier.citation	Aloisi, Antonio and Gramano, Elena, Workers Without Workplaces and Unions Without Unity: Non-Standard Forms of Employment, Platform Work and Collective Bargaining (March 21, 2019). in Pulignano V. & Hendrickx F. (Eds.), Employment Relations for the 21st Century, Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, Vol. 107., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3363185
dc.identifier.isbn	9789403517643
dc.identifier.officialurl	https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3363185
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Employment Relations in the 21st Century (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, 107)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3358
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	SSRN
dc.relation.department	Digital & Tech Law
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.relation.school	IE Law School
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.keyword	Non-standard forms of employment
dc.subject.keyword	collective bargaining
dc.subject.keyword	gig-economy
dc.subject.keyword	platform work
dc.subject.keyword	voice
dc.subject.keyword	strike
dc.title	Workers Without Workplaces and Unions Without Unity: Non-Standard Forms of Employment, Platform Work and Collective Bargaining
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dc.volume.number	107
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