ADAPT INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN
Bulletin No. 16/2015
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Great Transformation of Work
WORK 4.0: An Enormous Potential for Economic Growth in Germany
by Meysam Salimi
Uber: On the Road to Nowhere
Steven Greenhouse, The American Prospect Longform, December 2015.
Uber seeks to head off lawsuits with new binding driver agreement
Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 December 2015
Uber Driver Agreement
Uber legal agreement for drivers, starting 11 December 2015
Understanding the evolution of work
Dani Rodrik, Social Europe, 10 December 2015
Stephen Bevan: we still don't trust people to work flexibly
Stephen Bevan, HR Magazine, 8 December 2015
Mastering the robot: the future of work in the second age machine
The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, 2015
What impact Is climate change having on jobs?
John Evans, World Economic Forum, 8 December 2015
Domestic workers, debunking the myth
ILO, 7 December 2015
The end of the one-person-one-car economy raises a number of questions
LSE Business Review, 4 December 2015
Labour Law
Gig News: Seattle Passes Historic Bill Giving Uber & Lyft Drivers Right to Unionize
Jon Weinberg, Onlabor, 15 December 2015
"Les principes fondamentaux doivent être gravés dans la Constitution"
F. Mehrez, Actuel-Rh, 15 December 2015
Deux décrets majeurs détaillent les obligations des employeurs en cas de PSE
S. Becheaux, Liaisons Sociales Magazine, 14 December 2015
Complainant v. Foxx: EEOC Extends Workplace Protections to Gay and Lesbian Employees
Harvard Law Review, 10 December 2015
Do We Need an “Independent Worker” Category?
B. Sachs, On Labor Blog, 8 December 2015
A Proposal for Modernizing Labor Laws for Twenty-First-Century Work: The “Independent Worker”
The Hamilton Project, December 2015
Tefal : une inspectrice du travail condamnée pour violation du secret professionnel En savoir plus sur
Bertrand Bissuel, Le Monde, 4 December 2015
Caregivers Sometimes Must Sacrifice Their Careers
P. Span, The New York Times, 4 December 2015
Impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, December 2015
Industrial Relations
Third European Company Survey – Direct and indirect employee participation
Eurofound, 14 December 2015
Smart Car Standoff Pits Social Progress Against Global Competition
Liz Alderman, The New York Times, 12 December 2015
Detroit-to-Mexico shift predicted after auto union’s bug victory
David Welch, Chicago Tribune, 10 December 2015
The VW Chattanooga Union Win is Democracy at Work
Catherine Fisk, On Labor Blog, 9 December 2015
Turbulent times in air transport: Recent collective disputes and the ‘race to the bottom’
Eurofound, EurWORK, 9 December 2015
Unions request minimum wage exemptions
Preston Cooper, Economics 21, 7 December 2015
Syndicats et questions environnementales
Synthèse de la journée d’étude Ires du 3 novembre 2015 au CESE
Fight economic inequality with collective bargaining
Detroit Free Press, 3 December 2015
Trade union bill will lead to more strikes, says Unison
Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 3 December 2015
Ireland: New public sector agreement passed
Eurofound, 3 December 2015
Labour Market
Employment in tourism: almost 6 out of 10 persons employed in core tourism activities are women
Eurostat, 14 December 2015
Offshoring and unskilled labour demand: Evidence that trade matters
Juan Carluccio, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Christian Fons-Rosen, VOX, CEPR's Policy Portal, 14 December 2015
Fiscal policies and the prices of labor: a comparison of the U.K. and U.S.
Casey B. Mulligan, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 10 December 2015
Working time accounts and firm performance in Germany
Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 10 December 2015
Helping Americans work more and gain skills for higher-paying jobs is vital for boosting mobility
AEI-Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity, 3 December 2015
How to Promote a Just Transition and Break Out of the Jobs vs. Environment Trap
Jeremy Brecher, Dollars & Sense, November/December 2015
Labour market reforms in Italy: evaluating the effects of the Jobs Act
Marta Fana, Dario Guarascio, Valeria Cirillo, ISI Growth working paper, December 2015
Balancing regulations to promote jobs
Arvo Kuddo, David Robalino, Michael Weber, World Bank Group, December 2015
Measuring disincentives to formal work
Michael Weber, IZA World of Labor, December 2015
School to Work Transition, Higher Education & Innovative PhD
Sharing knowledge about vocational education and training
CEDEFOP, December 2015
Spotlight on VET Belgium
CEDEFOP, December 2015
The rise of work-based academic education in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
Lukas Graf, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 10 December 2015
Universities should benefit the public, not just the public purse
Joshua Forstenzer and Matthew Flinders, The Guardian, 7 December 2015
Wellness, Health & Safety at Work
‘Health’ is just an incomplete diagnosis…
Professor Stephen Bevan, The Work Foundation Blog, 11 December 2015
Presenteeism: reducing its impact
Fit for Work Blog, 11 December 2015
Samsung Aid for Sick Workers Comes With Conditions, Secrecy
Youkyung Lee, abc News, 11 December 2015
Concern about work-related disease and occupational doctors
Croner-i, 10 December 2015
How Inequality Kills
Joseph Stiglitz, Social Europe, 8 December 2015
Little to Address the Bigger Picture of Mental Prevention and Social Inclusion
Karen Steadman, Huffington Post, 4 December 2015
Work and well-being. A trade union resource
TUC, December 2015
Healthy workplaces for all ages
European Agency for Health and Safety at Work, December 2015
Employment & Demography
Dispossed in the Land of Dreams
Monica Potts, New Republic, 13 December 2015
Getting the new arrivals to work
The Economist, 12 December 2015
Social dimension of intra-EU mobility: impact on public services
Eurofound, 10 December 2015
Workers in Europe: Mobility and migration
Eurofound, 10 December 2015
Challenges of policy coordination for third-country nationals
Eurofound, 11 December 2015
OECD unemployment rate down to 6.6% in October 2015
OECD, 9 December 2015
The remarkable case of Spanish immigration
Jaume Martí Romero, Bruegel Blog Post, 8 December 2015
Multiple Forms of Migrant Precarity
UNRISD, 3 December 2015
Retiree migration and intergenerational conflict
M. S. Tosun, IZA World of Labor, December 2015
Global Digital Workplace as an Opportunity for Bulgarian Woman to Achieve Work-Family Balance
Gabriela Yordanova, COST, December 2015
Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016 : Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, December 2015
Welfare
How a family allowance could end poverty
PETER-CHRISTIAN AIGNER, The Atlantic, 13 December 2015
The evolution of work
Dani Rodrik, Social Europe, 10 December 2015
Towards a social-ecological transition. Solidarity in the age of environmental challenge
Eloi Laurent and Philippe Pochet, ETUI, 2015
Events & Call for Papers
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)
4th International Conference of PhD Students and Young Researchers. Interdisciplinary approach to law in modern social context
21 - 22 April 2016, Faculty of Law, Vilnius University (Lithuania)
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
ISA Conference: Meeting the Productivity Challenge
24 - 26 May 2016, Minneapolis (USA), 2016 Industry Studies Conference
2016 Annual Conference Visions of Work: Examining the Workplace as a Multidisciplinary Meeting Place
31 May - 2 June 2016, Saskatoon (Canada)
Call for Papers: Fifth International Conference on Precarious Work and Vulnerable Workers
June 13 and 14 2016, Middlesex University, London, UK
Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2016
21 - 23 June 2016, Sheffield, UK
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
Mini-Conferences: Moral Economies, Economic Moralities
24 - 24 June 2016, Berkeley (USA)
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
CALL FOR PAPERS. The Platform Society. Oxford Internet Society and European Consortium of Political Research
22-23 September 2016, University of Oxford
CALL FOR PAPERS, 11th Global Labour University Conference, South Africa, 2016 “The Just Transition and the Role of Labour: Our Ecological, Social, and Economic Future”
28 - 30 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
Facilitating Sustainable Work: Theory and Practice
3 - 5 November 2016, Manchester (UK), The 28th Annual Conference. European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy