ADAPT INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN
Bulletin No. 14/2015
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Great Transformation of Work
Interview to Dr. Werner Eichhorst
Werner Eichhorst, The WORKLIFE HUB, 16 November 2015
Uber Is Not the Future of Work
Lawrence Mishel, The Atlantic, 16 November 2015
9 Working Examples of Platform Cooperativism
J. Nathan Matias, MIT Center for Civic Media, 13 November 2015.
Half of all British jobs could be replaced by robots, warns Bank of England’s chief economist
Peter Spence, The telegraph, 12 November 2015.
The Future of Work: Empowering the Data-Driven Worker
Gina Neff, Pacific Standard, 10 November 2015
Labour Law
UK Trade Union Bill: Latest in line of global attacks on right to strike
Helen Russell, Global Labour Column, November 2015
Minimum wage setting practices in domestic work: an inter-state analysis
ILO, 10 November 2015
Tyco: Travel, Working Time, Wages and the Route to Casualisation (
Deirdre McCann, Oxford Human Rights Hub, 7 November 2015.
TTIP – what's in it for labour, environment and sustainable development?
Cecilia Malmström, European Commission Blog Post, 6 November 2015
A Study on the Prevalence of Zero Hours Contracts among Irish Employers and their Impact on Employees
University of Limerick, November 2015
Premiere Ministre, Simplifier, négocier, sécuriser : un code du travail pour le XXIe siècle
Dossier de press, 4 November 2015
Industrial Relations
Syndicalisme 2.0
Par Gaspard Koenig, Les Echos, 18 November 2015.
Collective bargaining – A policy guide
ILO, 13 November 2015
376th Report of the Committee on Freedom of Association
ILO 12 November 2015
Wage bargaining under the new European Economic Governance
Guy Van Gyes and Thorsten Schulten, ETUI, 2015
European Works Councils: towards a common standard?
Stan De Spiegelaere and Romek Jagodzinski, Social Europe, 9 November 2015
Labor union dissenters influence political speech more than shareholders: law profs to SCOTUS
Alison Frenkel, Reuters, 9 November 2015
Sara Horowitz, the Freelancers Union, and the future of unionism
Laetitia Vitaud, Medium, 9 November 2015.
Collective bargaining in Europe in the 21st century
Eurofound, 4 November 2015
Trade Union Bill: Government response to the consultation on tackling intimidation of non-striking workers
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (UK), 3 November 2015
Labour Market
Youth employment programs around the world – do they work?
IZA Press, 11 November 2015
Opportunities and outcomes in education and work: Gender effects
UK Commission for employment and skills, November 2015
Anticipating and matching skills and jobs
ILO, November 2015
Posting of agency workers and the cross-border provision services
Eurociett – Position Paper, 9 November 2015
School to Work Transition, Higher Education & Innovative PhD
Deal on new rules to attract non-EU students, researchers and interns to the EU
European Parliament news, 17 November 2015.
Thyssen: New business-led initiative will help young people into jobs
Henriette Jacobsen, Daniela Vincenti, EurActiv.com, 16 November 2015
Can schools help to integrate immigrants?
OECD, 16 November 2015
Education, the best route to employment
Tibor Navracsics, EurActiv.com, 16 November 2015
Workers are becoming more educated, although not always finding suitable jobs
ILO, 16 November 2015
Does the work-study combination among youth improve the transition path?
ILO, November 2015
Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks
CEDEFOP, 11 November 2015
Making apprenticeships work for small and medium enterprises
CEDEFOP, 11 November 2015
Skills Strategy Diagnostic Report: Korea
OECD, 5 November 2015
Wellness, Health & Safety at Work
Fit-for-work tests may have taken serious toll on mental health
Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, 16 November 2015
Mental Health, Employment and the Use of Sanctions: What the Evidence Tells Us
Andy Bell, Huffington Post, 13 November 2015
Bullying at Work - Guidance for Safety Representatives
TUC, November 2015
Healthy Workplace Summit 2015
Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress, Bilbao, 3–4 November 2015
L’obligation d’emploi des travailleurs handicapés en 2013. Un taux d’emploi en hauss
Dares Analyses, n° 083, November 2015
Eliminating occupational cancer in Europe and globally
Jukka Takala, OSH WIKI, November 2015
Employment & Demography
You can’t walk away while still handcuffed
Kate Roberts, Anti-slavery blog, 13 November 2015
Wealthy foreigners face 'spot checks' on domestic staff to stamp out slavery
Martin Bentham, Evening Standard, 9 November 2015
Rethinking Emigration: turning challenges into opportunities
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI, November 2015
Interview with Michael Clemens on smart policy toward high-skill emigration
IZA Press, 10 November 2015
Welfare
For Women, Income Inequality Continues Into Retirement
Ina Jaffe, npr, 17 November 2015.
We’re living longer. That’s Great, Except for Social Security
Josh Barro, The New York Times, 17 November 2015.
Demanding occupations and the retirement age
IZA press, 17 November 2015.
Fostering job search among older workers: the case for pension reform
J. Ignacio García-Pérez and Alfonso R. Sánchez-Martín, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 13 November 2015
European Union pension systems Adequate and sustainable?
European Parliament, 11 November 2015
Charting public opinion on the future of the welfare state
Pia Hùttl and Guntram B. Wolff, Bruegel blog post, 10 November 2015
Common ground for independent workers
Portable Benefits, Medium, 10 november 2015
Publications
Events & Call for Papers
Position of Professor of Industrial Relations
École de relations industrielles. Faculté des arts et des sciences (Université Montréal):
Winter School "From Uber to Amazon Mechanical Turk: nontraditional labour markets driven by technological and organisational change"
CEPS, Brussels (Belgium), 23-25 November 2015
8 th Annual Legal Seminar - Digitalization and Labour Law
The Hage, The Netherlands, 26-27 November 2015
International Conference: "New technologies and new forms of employment in spanish and comparative law". “Adapt or die” (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Argentina and Spain)
14-16 April 2016, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Call for Papers: Fifth International Conference on Precarious Work and Vulnerable Workers
June 13 and 14 2016, Middlesex University, London, UK
Facilitating Sustainable Work: Theory and Practice
3 - 5 November 2016, Manchester (UK), The 28th Annual Conference. European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
ISA Conference: Meeting the Productivity Challenge
24 - 26 May 2016, Minneapolis (USA), 2016 Industry Studies Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS. 53rd Annual CIRA Congress Visions of Work: Examining the Workplace as a Multidisciplinary Meeting Place
31 May - 2 June 2016, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS. BUIRA 2016: Employment relations towards 2020 and beyond: reflection, prospects and opportunities
29 June - 1 July 2016, The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD
Pre-Conference Doctoral Student Workshop: Labour Law in European and Global Perspectives
18 May 2016, Stockholm University
New Foundations of Labour Law in the Globalised Market Economy?
19-20 May 2016, Stockholm