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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: Don't Gig Up: Final Report

Research reports

Haipeter, T., Owczarek, D., Faioli, H. et al. (eds) (January 2020). Don't Gig Up: Final Report. Funded by the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission

This report was produced as part of the ‘Don’t GIG up!’ project, co-funded by the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission, and aimed at improving expertise and knowledge on the role unions and social dialogue can play with regard to the protection of gig workers. The report focuses on work carried out through labour platforms.

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Latest event: 15th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL)

Who: The University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law

What: Conference

Where: ONLINE

When:

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15th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL).  The University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law will host the conference Thursday- Saturday, October 8-10, 2020.  The conference will be online.  Register at this event page http://louisville.edu/law/cosell2020.

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