Practice and academic insights into artificial intelligence in work
Accept it: artificial intelligence is changing how we work, and we must adapt to it. This was the tenor of the discussion amongst…
On 11 March 2024, the European co-legislators approved a Directive on improving working conditions in platform work—the ‘Platform Work Directive’ (PWD).[1] It targets two challenges in digital labour…
1. Introduction
Trade between the United States and Mexico has surged dramatically in recent decades. As reported by The New York Times in February 2024, the U.S. now imports more goods from…
How will the right to disconnect work?
The French Disconnection
France’s ‘right to disconnect’ was a pioneering attempt to engage with workers’ health and safety in response to the extension of…
The need for protections beyond the contractual status
The proposal for a directive “on improving working conditions in platform work”[1] is part of a broad reformist design, aimed at balancing…
War and oppression plague the world. Peaceful relations among states still seems like a distant dream.
From a labour lawyer’s perspective, the quest for an international legal order among states…
Introduction: the need for a new employment presumption
The Portuguese Labour Code was recently amended through Act 13/2023, of 3 April (known as the “Decent Work Agenda”), which entered into…
Considering “privacy@work”
In their article of 1890, Warren and Brandeis wrote of a “right to be let alone”. Nowadays, the right to privacy has become a fundamental right, recognised in many…
Introduction
Romanian labour law has developed very dynamically in recent years. Its development curve could be described in key words which, at first somewhat belatedly, are nowadays becoming more…
