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Future of Work- Rethinking Workers’ Rights in the Digital Age
22nd March 2024Juliana Londoño Polo presented an ongoing strand of her PhD Research that attempts a global mapping of Case Law, Social Dialogue and Legislative Reform Initiatives in the Platform Economy, providing insights into the present state of affairs, recognising the emergence of dominant trends, as well as their implications for the working conditions of this force.
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The EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages Context, Commentary and Trajectories
22nd March 2024This book provides an all-encompassing and timely analysis of the EU regulatory framework deriving from the enactment of Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages. In it, you find a chapter by Mijke Houwerzijl concerning the definitions in the Directive and another by Ane Aranguiz and Bartlomiej Bednarowicz on Effective Access of Workers to Statutory Minimum Wages.
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Living and Working Tomorrow (2035) Challenges for Social Security (Administrations)
22nd March 2024The European Institute of Social Security collaborated on a research project charting future challenges for social security (administrations), commissioned by the Dutch SVB in order for it to prepare for future developments. The research consists of three main pillars: Contributions by young academics; Interviews with leading administrators and academics; Identification of future challenges for social security.
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Third-country nationals vulnerable in EU labor market
15th March 2024Employees from non-EU countries within the European Union often find themselves in a dependent and vulnerable position, according to Dr. Jan Cremers of Tilburg Law School in a working paper for the EURODETACHEMENT project. He describes their situation in the EU labor market therein.
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Jan Cremers (TLS) reappointed in management board of European Labour Authority
08th February 2024Dr. Jan Cremers has been reappointed at the end of 2023 for a new 4-year term as an independent expert on the management board of the European Labour Authority. Cremers was involved at an early stage in the preparation and set-up of this new European institution and was again nominated by the European Parliament.
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Social dialogue in the South-African furniture industries
30th January 2024From 19 to 25 January 2024, a TLS delegation consisting of Willem Plessen and Jan Cremers paid a working visit to South Africa at the invitation of the Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry of the Western Cape. Plessen and Cremers provided a programme devoted to the prospects for sectoral collective bargaining.
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Labour on demand
30th January 2024Researcher Jan Cremers of the Tilburg Law School contributed to the documentary ‘Labour on Demand’ of the TV program Zembla. The program addressed the housing, work and living situation of labour migrants in detail.
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Sanita van Wyk published a chapter in the book "Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa"
26th January 2024Sanita van Wyk published a chapter in the book "Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa”, edited by Kim Bouwer, Uzuazo Etemire, Tracy-Lynn Field and Ademola Oluborode Jegede. The chapter dives into the intersection of legal landscapes in South Africa and the Netherlands and is entitled "Different Roads to the Same Destination: Climate Change Litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands and the Role of Human Rights in the Mitigation of Climate Change".
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Tort victims in situations of mass harm want more than financial compensation
25th January 2024Collective settlement processes are mostly set up to secure financial compensation for the victims. But money is not the only thing most tort victims seek: they also want their suffering to be acknowledged and to make sure it does not happen again.
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Available in open access: 'Working Yet Poor: Challenges to EU Social Citizenship'
24th January 2024Edited by Luca Ratti and Paul Schoukens
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The Journal of Law and Labor (TRA) Special from "The State of the Polder"
13th December 2023Edited by Labour Law colleague Willem Plessen, among others, the Special of the Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid (TRA) came out in June “The State of the Polder.”
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International Conference on Charting New Territories: Legal Transformations for Protecting Human Rights in a Dynamic World
12th December 2023On 1-2 December 2023, the HUME Institute (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Reva University (Bengaluru, India) hosted a conference on 'Charting New Territories: Legal Transformations for Protecting Human Rights in a Dynamic World'. Sanita van Wyk’s presentation at the conference was entitled: 'The role of human rights in climate change cases in South Africa and the Netherlands’.
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Labour mobility on the German and EU labour market
08th December 2023Jan Cremers contributed to a workshop on labour mobility in the EU, at the Annual Conference of the German Government's Equal Treatment Authority.
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Introduction to labor mobility in the EU: where does regulation fail?
27th November 2023Important bottlenecks in the regulation of labor mobility within the EU are that the powers of national compliance bodies are limited to their own national borders, how to act against rogue intermediaries and how to tackle letterbox constructions effectively.
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Sustainability and sustainability reporting
21st November 2023The new European sustainability reporting requirements can definitely be called revolutionary and pose enormous challenges to the business world. In this newly published contribution in the NJW (2023, no. 490), Christoph Van der Elst and Steffie van den Bosch highlight the new reporting framework. Undoubtedly big business, hopefully it is also sufficiently sustainable.
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Iris van Oosterhout receives FJR publication award
20th November 2023Iris van Oosterhout has been awarded the FJR publication prize! She received the prize for her article 'Freedom, equality and non-binarity' in the NJB (2023/114). The prize is awarded annually for the best scholarly publication by a young researcher (under 35) in the field of family and juvenile law.
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Editorial Wim Weterings in AV&S on insurance and sustainability
17th November 2023Issue 4 of the magazine Aansprakelijkheid, Verzekering & Schade (AV&S)) features an editorial by Wim Weterings titled "Verzekeraar, duurzaamheid en ESG: een goed idee!"
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Multinationals have a responsibility to take care of people and planet throughout their production networks
30th October 2023Multinationals have a duty to prevent or reduce foreseeable negative impacts on workers, communities and the environment, even if these impacts are caused by other actors in their production networks. That is the position Professor of Private Law Paul Verbruggen takes in his inaugural address at Tilburg University on Friday, November 3, 2023.
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Dutch civil appellate procedure can become more efficient – from within and in small steps
10th October 2023Dutch procedural law in civil appellate cases has for many years been considered costly, slow, and complicated. And consensus on how things ought to be done differently remains elusive. Endowed Professor Nadine Groeneveld-Tijssens believes slight changes from within are the best way forward to resolve the issues. Like in ecosystems, procedural law appears to move toward a natural balance.
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Greenwashing less popular as a business model
06th October 2023Fund houses are closing record numbers of European ESG funds. the benefit of higher fees no longer outweighs the risks of false sustainability claims, according to Anne Lafarre in Investment Officer.
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Publication “In-Work Poverty in Europe”
29th September 2023“In-Work Poverty in Europe: Vulnerable and Under-Represented Persons in a Comparative Perspective” thoroughly analyses the direct and indirect measures combating in-work poverty.
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Book chapter: Environmental peacebuilding and indigenous peoples’ rights to lands and resources
29th September 2023Bas Rombouts published a chapter in the new Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding. His chapter explains that international law emphasizes the important role that indigenous peoples can have in securing sustainable solutions to different types of conflicts by means of inclusive natural resource management processes that contain environmental protection mechanisms.
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New book “Working Yet Poor: Challenges to EU Social Citizenship”
29th September 2023Contributors of this book are Paul Schoukens, Mijke Houwerzijl, Ane Aranguiz.
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Fenicia Aceto published a new blog
29th September 2023Fenicia Aceto published a new blog about the latest Framework Agreement on the application of Article 16(1) of Regualtion (EC) No. 883/2004 in cases of habitual cross-border telework.
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No fund for mass tort claims
28th September 2023There are mass tort claims that lack finance to be filed. "But time is not ripe to raise a fund for this." Ianika Tzankova, Karlijn van Doorn (et al) in Mr-Online.
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Reforming the Consumer Protection Landscape through Legal Design
18th September 2023Dr Tronel Joubert was invited to the symposium,"The latest developments in Consumer Protection Law" in South Africa hosted by Akademia, to present a paper.
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HR Policies for Labour Migrants: A Process still in its Infancy?
13th September 2023Read this article which explores HR policy areas that are applied for migrant labor, independent from the type of hiring or recruitment. The article is partly based on a series of opinion surveys, among these workers in the Netherlands.
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Systematic review of Western European public and private policies and (proposed) legislation to implement a circular built environment
05th September 2023On 31 August 2023, Jonas Voorter and Stéphanie van Gulijk presented the research results of their systematic analysis of Western European public and private policies and (proposed) legislation for a circular construction sector at the 10th edition of the EELF conference in Leipzig.
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Interaction between labour law and immigration regimes - The case of short-term third-country national workers in the EU and the EEA - Jan Cremers
04th August 2023This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States have regulated the immigration of third-country nationals who enter their territory for the purpose of work.
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The 20th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law: Future-Proofing Law in a Time of Environmental Emergency
03rd August 2023The University of Eastern Finland and its Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law hosted the 20th IUCN AEL Colloquium in Joensuu, Finland, from 31 July – 4 August 2023.
