Labour Law

How can work be democratised and decommodified, so that workers feel more fulfilled in their jobs and have a greater say at their workplaces?

The largest four-day week trial could be transformative but for wider appeal, campaigners need more than the empirical evidence it will provide.

Changing our relationships with time and work remains a key task for progressive forces everywhere. This an opportunity for green politics to suddenly become urgent.

Jean-Claude Juncker’s outgoing EU Commission emphasised a fair approach to trade – how far do the steps it has taken go towards protecting workers?

Fundamental upheavals to work are destabilising hard-fought protections. Labour codes – and work itself – must be reshaped to reflect the economic realities of our time.

Alain Supiot makes an ambitious and much-needed proposal for a labour law reform that would protect workers while creating autonomy in the organisation and design of work.

For some, the gig economy is the new reality of work and opportunity. For others, it is a return to power relations that labour law hoped to, and perhaps still can, stamp out.