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The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated. A quarter of a century after Alain Supiot advocated a comprehensive extension of labour and social rights ‘beyond employment’, labour-law regimes in Europe remain fundamentally anchored by the ‘binary divide’ between employment and self-employment.
Labour's commitment to reverse the decline of unions is the only way for Britain to end job insecurity and in-work poverty — if this was ditched, it would only show that Starmer is comfortable with bosses reliant on massive exploitation to turn a profit. Since then, Labour’s Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner, has denied any watering down of the New Deal and reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to it. She is to be applauded for doing so.
In an important speech to the GMB annual conference on June 6th, Keir Starmer reaffirmed a strong commitment to the Labour Party’s new deal for working people. In a number of crowd-pleasing gestures, he promised to ban zero-hours contracts, outlaw fire and rehire and enhance flexibility rights at the workplace. He also engaged positively with the GMB campaign to secure recognition at Amazon and spoke of the need to strengthen the role of trade unions.
This article discusses the significance of the landmark decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Demir and Baykara v Turkey, which reversed earlier jurisprudence to hold (i) that the right to collective bargaining is ‘an essential element’ of the right to freedom of association in Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and (ii) embedded the jurisprudence of the International Labour Organisation and the European Social Charter...
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