1/ 🌍🚨 Overcoming five key challenges to make the energy transition a just labor transition — now in @natcomms.nature.com. w/ @sharanburrow.bsky.social, @alanfinkshap.bsky.social, @ct-economics.bsky.social, @mauropucheta.bsky.social, @danielraimi.bsky.social, @terzibus.bsky.social + colleagues

A few weeks ago, I participated in this academic conversation as a peer commentator. It was an interesting exchange with colleagues about employment status and research methodologies. Thanks to the Global South Network for the invitation. @mauropucheta.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJmf...

Organising a Special Session at the ILERA European Congress (Durham, 10-12 September) on Re-Quantification of Labour Law - including in the #WorldBank's B-Ready index - with Sangheon Lee @ilo.org Simon Deakin @jbs.cam.ac.uk Bernd Brandl @durham-university.bsky.social bit.ly/ILERASS25

Happy this is out. Thank you to all who patiently listened and generously suggested improvements. All are remembered. academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...

Trump fired the NLRB's pro-worker general counsel and its acting chair. He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize. Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether? Amazon and SpaceX.

True blue sky thinking. Come to this free event at City on 6 March at 4pm. Sign up button is at the end. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Feels like a long time since we had a really juicy TUPE case to puzzle over. Here's one that looks at objections to the transfer and constructive dismissal. I haven't got my head around it yet. Need more coffee assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/675816...

Join our session Thursday 6pm @KCL.ac.uk on big tech media regulation - and reforming it. Misinformation and bias are rife on X, YouTube, Facebook + TikTok. What's next after the Online Safety Act + Digital Services Act? With [email protected] - register👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/curre...

EU and Mercosur agree free trade agreement: ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Qs and As: ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Still needs to go through ratification process, of course

The European Union-MERCOSUR agreement represents the world's largest trade and investment partnership, uniting a market of nearly 750 million people. While this is a significant milestone, it's just the beginning of what could be a lengthy ratification process. 🧵 (1/5)

I spoke to BBC Farming Today on the Seasonal Worker Visa and exploitation risks for migrant agricultural workers - available from c4.45 minutes in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... . The visa is restrictive, with a short duration and limits on changing employer, while workers incur significant costs.

my book, "Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy," is officially out today 📚 a brief thread on what it's about 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Who will qualify for the right to be offered guaranteed hours? In the Employment Rights Bill Committee Stage debate on 3 December, the Government suggested that the scope of the new right might be wider than you think. New post from me: rangeofreasonableresponses.com/2024/12/05/g...

Here's a labour law and labour rights starter pack - please do share, and tell me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/FhMsGKA

EU employment law - latest redraft of proposed EU law on traineeships - not agreed yet, but Member States' ministers will discuss and might agree on Monday - data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document... If agreed, would still need to be negotiated with the European Parliament

The Spanish platform Glovo announces it will now hire its riders as workers. Spanish colleagues can correct me, but I think this results from a clear, simple legal rule and, above all, systematic enforcement by the Labour Inspectorate and other bodies. @luzrodriguez.bsky.social @ibdehere.bsky.social

Excellent piece from @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social Why the public doesn’t buy the idea of a ‘green jobs’ bonanza on.ft.com/4fH0nKE @ibarthes.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social @industrialleurope.bsky.social

Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

#SocialProtection is a crucial safety net for people affected by #ClimateChange and #GreenTransition. In this @etui.bsky.social brief, Alberto Barrio and I outline how the #EU Fair Transition Recommendation encourages states to rethink social protection systems for a #JustTransition. 👉 etui.org/ZBA

🔥Watch @thebigbogg.bsky.social Simon Deakin + Melanie Simms cut to the heart of the Employment Bill: ⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965 🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions 0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...