The European Union is preparing measures to help thousands of people fleeing death. In this regard, the European Commission proposes temporary protection for people fleeing war in Ukraine and guidelines for border checks.

Domestic workers tend to have extremely long and unstructured hours, low wages, little or no access to social protection, lack of labour law protection, among others. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these pre-existing decent work deficits in the domestic work sector, particularly in developing countries.

This blog describes emerging technological systems that may challenge current forms of political participation, with an eye on its transformative nature.

Policies for solving youth unemployment in South Africa have certainly not shown teeth. True, the rate dropped during the pre-Zuma boom years from an all-time peak of 59.95% in 2003 to 44.83% in 2008, then rose steadily to 53.62% in 2017 (when Zuma was ousted). However, by 2019 – the last year before the pandemic – it had risen further to 55.97%.

What will a business look like if the platform workers seen everywhere delivering goods and food, operating taxis and delivering domestic services via a digital commercial "platforms" own the platform itself?

The writer maps out how regulators and courts have responded to to platform work.

The PGDip programme seeks to maintain an appropriate balance between legal theory and practical skills. It is directly aligned with academic standards of the University and the Department of Higher Education. Comprising four modules, the content is continuously updated in terms of amendments to labour legislation as well as case law.

How the CENTROW website can be used as a one-stop shop for sharing knowledge and promoting co-operation.

In harnessing existing technologies to further the principle of “dignity of work”, the Digital Platform Co-operative Project believes that the technologies we engage must be fit for purpose in respect of creating access to opportunity, capacity building of domestic workers in their own futures, and providing a suitable technology platform for enabling redistribution of valued assets.

As the world continues to be digitised, and more and more work is organised through online platforms, domestic services have not been untouched. Various platforms offer such services on a commercial (for-profit) basis. The Digital Platform Co-operative Project (DPCP), created by the Social Law Project (SLP) in the Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW).

LLoL is one of the projects of the Centre for the Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW) It is one of South Africa’s first digital legal decision-making tools, which came about as a result of cooperation between Arbeidsmarktresearch Uva B.V. (ARR), a unit at the University of Amsterdam, and the university. This interactive programme provides expert information on labour law. It seek

In this piece, the writer speaks about the evolution of digital work and how initiatives such as Fairwork seeks to contribute to the fair regulation of this type of work

Sooner or later, all pandemics are brought to an end. But, until then, they can cause huge damage to society, as COVID-19 is showing day by day. And none are more at risk than non-standard or “precarious” workers – casual workers, independent contractors, all those doing jobs without security of employment and benefits, who generally fall outside the protection of labour law.