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Faculty of Law | University of the Western Cape

Research Portal

Faculty of Law | University of the Western Cape

LABOUR LAW IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Labour law 4.0 > Welcome 

Our  research niche deals with the fundamental challenges that platform work, AI, automation and more pose for labour and social security law 

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>> Context: The stages of industry

>> News and blogs: Latest headlines

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News: UWC testing SA’s first online labour law program | By Ratula Beukman and Roger Ronnie

In an exciting new initiative, the Faculty of Law at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has partnered with Arbeidsmarktresearch UvA BV (ARR), a unit at the University of Amsterdam which has developed an interactive programme offering individualised information on workers’ rights, in adapting this programme to the South African context. Read more ...

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News: Court victory for domestic workers | By Fairuz Mullagee

The drowning of domestic worker Badanile Maria Mahlangu in her employer’s swimming pool in 2012 resulted in drawn out legal battles that ended with a court ruling that is a victory for all domestic workers. Read more ...

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Blogs: COVID-19: Worker's rights and the public interest | By Darcy du Toit

Government has started extending special protection to some workers affected by the corona virus. The blog argues that such protection should be available to all. Read more ...

>> Publications, resources and events

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Featured publication: Building BRICS for Growth?

Books and chapters

Du Toit, Darcy, Ronnie, Roger, Cooney, S, et al. (2015). Building BRICS for Growth?. In Matthew W Finkin & Guy Mundlak (eds) Comparative Labor Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Economic pressure, as well as transnational and domestic corporate policies, has placed labor law under severe stress. National responses are so deeply embedded in institutions reflecting local traditions that meaningful comparison is daunting. This book assembles a team of experts from many countries that draw on a rich variety of comparative methods to capture changes and emerging trends acro...

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Featured resource: Fairwork South Africa Ratings 2020: Labour Standards in the Gig Economy

Research reports

Howson, K., Katta, S., Graham, M. et al. (March 2020). Fairwork South Africa Ratings 2020: Labour Standards in the Gig Economy. Fairwork: Cape Town, South Africa; Oxford, United Kingdom.

Fairwork evaluates the working conditions of digital platforms and ranks them on how well they do. Ultimately, the goal is to show that better, and fairer, jobs are possible in the platform economy.

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Latest event: Regulating labour in the gig economy

Who: School of Economics and Management, Lund University

What: International seminar

Where: Lund University, Sweden

When: 9h00, 24 February - 26 February 2020

Detail:

A huge challenge for traditional labour legislation is the impact of new technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the new gig economy, many of the workers are self-employed. The Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Committee of Social Rights (a Council of Europe body) have different views about the possibilities to regulate conditions for self-employed in collective ag...

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