Paul has been an acting judge of the Labour Court on several occasions and has written widely on labour law in international and local publications.

Darcy is a co-investigator on FAIRWORK in the Platform Economy in the Global South in association with the universities of Oxford, Manchester and Cape Town. His research has focused on workplace democratisation, employment equity, strike law, domestic work (contributing to the adoption of ILO Convention 189 of 2011 on domestic workers) and more recently on digital platform work.

As a practitioner he has worked as a labour arbitrator and remains a consultant to Bradley Conradie Halton Cheadle Attorneys, a firm specialising in labour law. Internationally, he has served inter alia as a Vice-President of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law and member of the advisory board of the European Labour Law Network.

She has been involved in different areas of advocacy in her career, and as an advocacy programme manager at the Black Sash contributed to, among other things, the equalization of the Older Person’s eligibility criteria to the Social Assistance Grant by lowering of the age of men from 65 to 60 years to qualify for the OPG.

Ratula also campaigned for the extension of Child Support Grant to the age of 18 years, which lead to incremental increase in the qualifying age of children from 14 to 18 years to access the CSG. In addition, she contributed to the following:

• The establishment of the Independent Tribunal for Social Assistance Appeals at the Department of Social Development.
• Bread Price Collusion Tiger Brand & Pioneer Foods – secured the fining of Tiger Brands by the Competition Commission of R96 million for bread price fixing.
• Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Bill – improved the calculation and period of Benefit payments to workers and aligning maternity benefit to the ILO standards.

Ratula has also worked as a researcher, contributing to various evaluations of national, regional and international programmes. Her role extended to fieldwork, gathering evidence, synthesizing and producing field work write-ups which are central to the evaluation report.

At the Black Sash, she also worked in various ways to help build the capacity of the local community organisations. Together with four regional offices, she managed education & training support, resourcing and guidance and ensuring strong national communication with advice offices in South Africa. She was responsible, together with the regional teams, for developing and disseminating materials and implementing awareness-raising activities, educational courses and workshops, and mentorship programmes to ensure that information and analysis is shared within the organization and publicly.

The work involved policy analysis, policy and legislative research in specific substantive practice areas with an emphasis on constitutional law, administrative law, social security law, consumer law and labour law, as well as various government precepts, regulations and laws.

Professor Blackett holds a B.A. in History from Queen’s University, civil law and common law degrees from McGill, and an LL.M. and a doctorate in law from Columbia University.

Widely published in English, French and Spanish in the emerging field of transnational labour law, in 2015, she co-edited a Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law. Her book manuscript entitled Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labour Law (Cornell University Press) was published in Spring 2019.

• Professor Blackett is the recipient of prestigious research fellowships, notably the Social Science and Humanities Research Council’s Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research in 2010. In 2016, she was appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development. Also in 2016, she received a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship for her project on transnational futures of international labour law, for which she organized an eponymous course in winter 2019. In April 2020, she received a McGill COVID-19 Rapid Response grant for her research project titled COVID-19's Essential Workers: Rethinking Social Protection Beyond the Employment Relationship.
• Professor Blackett founded and directs the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL) at McGill, was a founding steering committee member of the international Labour Law Research Network (LLRN), and is member of the Quebec based Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT). She was a William Dawson Scholar at McGill from 2007 to 2016, and has been a visiting scholar at the African Development Bank, the Australian National University and SOAS (University of London). A former official of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva, Professor Blackett has been an ILO expert on international standard setting on decent work for domestic workers (2008-2011) leading to the adoption of ILO Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201; and in a labour law reform process in Haiti (2011-2014). In 2009, she was unanimously appointed by the National Assembly of Quebec to the province’s Human rights and youth rights Commission, where she served as a commissioner for seven (7) years.
• A member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Barreau du Québec, she was awarded the latter’s Christine Tourigny Award of Merit and the status of advocate emeritus in 2014, in recognition of her social commitment and her contributions to the advancement of women. She received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. In 2015, the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers awarded her its Pathfinder Award for her significant contributions to the legal community and the community at large. In November 2018, Adelle Blackett was appointed to the Human Rights Expert Panel of the Government of Canada’s renewed Court Challenges Program. She was appointed to the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) Chapter 23 (Trade and Labour) Roster of experts in December 2018. Professor Blackett was elected an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in July 2019. In July 2020, she was appointed to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Annex 31-B Lists of Rapid Response Labor Panelists. In 2020, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of the Social Sciences).

His duties further included lectures in Labour law and alternative Dispute Resolution for postgraduate students at CPUT. Currently he is supervising LLM student from Namibia in the labour law field and is employed at Social Law Project (SLP) at UWC where his duties and responsibilities consist of Lecturing, student support and a range of administrative duties for Labour Law projects.

Sedica joined the Social Law Project at the University of the Western Cape as a researcher in June 2018 and her core responsibilities were resource mobilization, proposal writing and fundraising. Her role as researcher for the Social Law Project led to actively participating in the conceptualization of the digital platform cooperative project (DPCP) and to further engage high level networks nationally, regionally and internationally. In 2019 Sedica was contracted to mobilize resources for an emerging research centre.

She has about twenty years of extensive research and management experience. Her work spans a broad field that includes policy design and analysis as well as implementation. Ms Mullagee’s key strength is her expertise, skill and ability to convert large volumes of data into useful knowledge through her system’s approach to data management.

She has worked with a number of government departments, parastatals and NPOs including UNESCO, Departments of Home Affairs, Education, Social Development, SA Local Government Association (SALGA), and the Constitutional Assembly. Her vast experience has provided her with great insight into many spheres of society and government from local to global level. It is this experience that enables her to craft innovative and sustainable solutions for a broad range of problems.

Her 10-year association with UWC has focused broadly promoting social justice for precarious workers, more specifically domestic workers. This work has resulted in numerous knowledge products in the domestic work sector, and a presence locally and internationally. She is currently a driving force in the Digital Platform Co-operative Project, a research and development initiative, to explore the use of technology for improving the collective bargaining environment for domestic workers.

In this regard, Roger played a central role in the formation of the South African Local Government Bargaining Council (SALGBC). He also formed part of the organised labour team that negotiated amendments at the tripartite National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) to the essential service provisions of the Labour Relations Act.

His work at SLP has focused on workers in precarious and vulnerable forms of employment, such as domestic workers and street vendors. This included work on an ILO-funded project on the feasibility of the establishment of co-operatives as a means of economic empowerment for domestic workers in South Africa. He has contributed to a year-long empowerment programme for domestic workers focusing on human rights, domestic workers and labour law, and appropriate forms of organization for the sector. Roger has recently formed part of the team that drafted a series of four papers that form part of the ILO’s Future of Work Initiative, aimed at facilitating debate amongst social partners in NEDLAC.

Roger also facilitates labour law programmes offered by SLP for continuing education students and provides student support to in the Postgraduate Diploma in Labour Law.

She has consulted for agencies such as the International Labour Organization and SADC Secretariat on a number of labour and human rights issues. Her research interests include domestic workers, street vendors, labour migration, international labour law and the regulation of precarious forms of work.

Pamhidzai currently resides in Maryland USA and is the Law Programme Coordinator for Africa at Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).

Craig was an academic lecturing in labour law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, first at the University of Cape Town and then the University of the Western Cape. He has published academic articles on various topics including s197 transfers, the employment relationship and unfair dismissal. Craig has also co-authored a book on employment and business transfers and, in 2016, Reviews in the Labour Courts. Until 2013, he was a senior commissioner at the CCMA and a panellist for a number of bargaining councils.

She has co-authored various labour law texts including ‘Labour Law through the cases’, ‘Labour Relations Law’, ‘Trade Unions and the Law’, ‘Labour Law in Context’ and ‘Laws against Strikes’, ‘Strikes and the Law’ and ‘Labour Law’ amongst others. She has published many articles in the field of labour law in leading law journals. Tamara has presented conference papers both nationally and internationally. Until 2018 she was the Programme Manager of the CCMA Commissioner Labour Dispute Resolution Qualification, having established and managed the programme since its inception.

Debbie has been involving in the drafting of various technical reports on labour law, including the national minimum wage in South Africa, and in the capacity of external consultant for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), in which she has collaborated on a number of labour law projects in the SADC region.

Debbie has edited and authored/ co-authored numerous books (including Collier & Fergus (eds) Labour Law in South Africa: Context and Principles 2018 OUP) and scholarly articles that have been published in various law journals.

He launched the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University in 2005 and since 2014 has been the driving force behind the establishment of the Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

In recognition of his contribution to the South African IT industry Barry Dwolatzky was named the joint winner of the ‘South African IT Personality of the Year” in 2013 and received an award for ‘Distinguished Service to IT’ from the Institute of IT Professionals of South Africa (IITPSA) in 2016. Also in 2016 Wits University presented him with the ‘Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Citizenship’.

She has published widely and has numerous peer reviewed publications in the fields of gender equality, labour law, and human rights. Her books include Comparative Human Rights (OUP, 2018); Human Rights Transformed (OUP 2008); Discrimination Law (OUP, 2nd ed 2011); Women and the Law (OUP, 1997); The State as Employer (Mansell, 1988) with Gillian Morris and Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain (2nd ed, Kluwer, 1992) with Bob Hepple. She edited Age as an Equality Issue (Hart, 2003) with Sarah Spencer, and Discrimination and Human Rights: the Case of Racism (OUP, 2001).

She holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa She has been an expert advisor on equality for a variety of governments and organizations, including the UK, Northern Ireland, Canada, the ILO, UN Women, the World Bank, the EU Commission, and the UN Working Group on non-discrimination against women in social and economic life. Most recently, she was a member of the expert drafting group of the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education in the context of Privatization.

Shamima has litigated in all the courts including Labour and Labour Appeal Court, The Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court. Shamima served as an acting judge in both the Labour Court and the High Court. She lectured in the Labour Law Masters Programme at the School of Law, University of Witwatersrand and previously lectured undergraduate students at the University of Witwatersrand in advanced labour law and law of contract. Shamima has authored numerous legal articles and various texts and journals. Shamima is also a former president of the Southern African Society for Labour Law (SASLAW).

She received a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Witwatersrand in 1988 and a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London). She has practiced for more than 20 years after completion of her articles.

Mark is an economic geographer with an interest in how digital technologies and digitally-mediated practices affect economic and social inequalities. His research focuses on economic development, labour, power, participation, and representation. His recent books include The Gig Economy, Society and the Internet, and Digital Economies at Global Margins. You can find a full list of his publications on his website, http://www.markgraham.space/publications/.

His activities include research and strategic litigation.

A second research focus of relevance to this project is her work on transnational standards in global supply chains, in the context of socio-legal studies on enforcement and mobilisation of the law. It has led her to researching possible tensions between norms from different legal contexts such as labour rights and human rights. In the last few years, she has been focussing on legal questions around digitalisation of work, namely on digital platform work and directed various interdisciplinary research projects on the subject.

Ms. Liebman was first appointed to be a Member of the NLRB by President Clinton and was twice reappointed by President Bush. Earlier, she served as Deputy Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and held positions as Labor Counsel for the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen, and Legal Counsel to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

She holds an A.B. degree from Barnard College, and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Economic Policy Institute and a senior fellow of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations. She is the Co-Chair of the Council of Advisors at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at the New School, and as of June 2020 will serve as President-Elect of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

South African Norwegian Association (SANA) Chairman & Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).

Venolan has extensive experience in advising and representing a wide array of clients including, multinational and local companies, parastatals, local government, and individuals. These encompass a broad area of sectors and industries, including those related to technology. He represents clients and regularly argues labour cases in various forums, including, the Labour Court, CCMA, bargaining councils, and internal hearings. He also represents clients in the High Court, Labour Appeal Court, and Supreme Court of Appeal. Venolan also acts in matters related to commercial dispute resolution. He has authored legal articles on various topics of labour law.

Venolan holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of South Africa.

He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Bordeaux, Leuven, Nantes, Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and at the University Luigi Bocconi in Milan.

He is particularly interested in better understanding and investigating the dynamics of a rapidly changing world of work from the perspective of the global south, especially in relation to the digital economy and its implications for governance, worker organization and collective action.

Visiting Professor in many universities all over the world. 2000 - 2003 President of ILERA. 1998 - 2002 Deputy President of German Lawyers' Association (DJT). For many years Consultant to the International Labour Organisation since 1980 and to the Commission of the EU. Technical Assistance to many countries (including South Africa).

Her studies includes Procurement, Bookkeeping and Office Administration. Michelle has a strong sense of integrity, great organisation and negotiating skills and possess the ability to interact with people from diverse cultures. This has proved to be a very valuable asset in her new role at LABOUR LAW ONLINE.

Being the owner of several small businesses has given Annalize the ability to manage staff and important business components. She has extensive experience in high-level administrative and supportive functions and the ability to provide practical solutions to problems.

Her formal education has included a diploma in Theology, THRASS (teaching reading, writing and spelling skills), Bookkeeping, Administration, (current: Business Management). This has proved to be valuable in her position as Office Manager at the Social Law Project, where she has gained much experience with the University administrative systems.

Arbeidsmarketresearch UvA BV (ARR) is affiliated with the Labour Law department of the University of Amsterdam and was founded in 2010 by Professor Evert Verhulp. ARR develops digital, legal knowledge systems in the field of labour law. Its main goal is to make the law more accessible and give users insight into their legal position.

Since the inception of the CoLab for eInclusion and Social Innovation at the University of the Western Cape (2009) and the establishment of the partnership with national government, it regarded its role as providing research-based thought leadership in terms of the national and provincial discourse and action agenda towards equitable digital inclusion and competitiveness in the digital economy.

To this end, the CoLab participated in national and especially provincial processes to further the digital skills agenda and to develop research outputs, learning content and products for the benefit of the national network of CoLabs and in support of the national digital skills agenda.

Over the past 6 years the CoLab has actively developed its ecosystem of entrepreneurial digital inclusion intermediaries all over the province. The CoLab has invested in the development of this network of trusted delivery partners in order to build our capacity to more sustainable scale our interventions.

The most important role fulfilled by the CoLab is that of catalyst and change agent role, engaging with various stakeholders to elicit support for the human capital development (digital skills) interventions that will contribute towards a digitally inclusive and sustainable society.

There are now tens of millions of digital platform workers that live all over the world, doing work that is outsourced via platforms or apps.

Platform work provides essential income and opportunities to many. However, lacking protection from employment law or collective bodies, many platform workers face low pay, precarity, and poor and dangerous working conditions.

Fairwork is committed to highlighting best and worst practices in the emerging platform economy. We have brought together platforms, workers, trade unions, regulators, and academics to set global principles for fair work in the platform economy. Those principles have been revised in a series of tripartite workshops in South Africa, India, and Germany. Using those principles, we give every platform a ‘fairness’ score.

Fairwork draws on the expertise of staff at the Universities of Oxford, Cape Town, Manchester, and the Western Cape in work practices and working conditions on digital labour platforms. Project staff work to translate our principles into measurable thresholds, conduct rigorous research to evaluate platforms against those thresholds, and publish our results in a transparent manner.

The Hugo Sinzheimer Institute for Labour and Social Security Law (HSI) is a research institute of the Hans Böckler Foundation based in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). In the spirit of Sinzheimer, the HSI cultivates an understanding of labour and social security law research that integrates different aspects and includes sociological, legal policy, international and comparative law elements. International law plays a special role, especially the Europeanisation of labour law.

The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through the vigorous exchange of ideas and resources, we strive to facilitate a better understanding of human rights principles, to develop new approaches to policy, and to influence the development of human rights law and practice.