The Future of Labour Law
24 Nov 2023
12:00 -14:00
Open to: All
Sinyi Seminar Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join our Centre for Business Research & Digital Futures at Work Research Centre seminar
Speaker: Professor Cristina Mangarelli, University of the Republic, Uruguay
About the seminar topic
This seminar will discuss the challenges posed to labour law by new forms of work organisation, particularly work through digital platforms. Are platform workers ‘subordinate’ workers (‘employees’ or ‘workers’) or self-employed? Do they occupy an intermediate category? Reference will be made to the solutions that some countries have found, particularly in South America, through law (legislation) and jurisprudence (case law). The presentation will discuss whether the labour law of the future will continue to protect only subordinate work or whether it will extend its coverage to all types of work, and in that case whether the protection will be the same for all types of work (subordinate, self-employed, intermediate categories) or if there will be different protective statuses. The presentation will also consider how far respect for human rights at work will be guaranteed in future, in the face of the globalisation of markets and changes in the forms of production and work. Will there be fundamental changes in regulatory systems and sources? Have these changes already started? In addition, a number of topics that can be expected to have greater prominence in the labour law of the future will be highlighted.
Speaker Cristina Mangarelli is Professor of Advanced Labour and Social Security Law at the University of the Republic, Uruguay, and a Visiting Fellow at CBR.
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