Great to be on ITV’s report on water, and point out that we don’t need to give banks billions to make water public again, and clean up. Make companies lose licences and shareholder + bank polluters lose their money under special admin. More here: common-wealth.org/publications/r…

Two days away from welcoming Commissioner Nicolas SCHMIT UCL Faculty of Laws . An unmissable opportunity to hear more about the past, present, and future of Social Europe. Join us. LRI UCL European Institute

Exciting news: we have, today, launched a brand new podcast series - our first ever. The series will provide an accessible & authoritative analysis of the government’s employment law reforms. Stream it on our website, or via the Spotify or Apple platforms. ier.org.uk/the-ier-podcas…

Delighted to give a lecture at UCL on the social foundations of 🇪🇺 integration. We’ve gone a long way: from the treaties of the ‘50s to this mandate’s directives on minimum wages and platform work. Looking at the challenges ahead, I think we need even more #SocialEurope.

Sustainable #competitiveness? 🔍 ETUI senior researcher Béla Galgóczi decodes the #Draghi report in the latest edition of our #GreenNewDeal newsletter 🔗 etui.org/ZBp 🗞️ Subscribe to the newsletter here 🔗 etui.org/ZAT

Pleased to see my first article in Korean published. It discusses the case of Belarus in the context of ILO’s Commission of Inquiry and its recent decision to invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution. Many thanks to Dr June Namgoong for the invitation. kli.re.kr/kli_eng/prdclV…

'Is the European Green Deal really leaving no one behind?' 📑 ETUI policy brief by Mehtap Akgüç and Kalina Arabadjieva 🔗 etui.org/Z7G #EuropeanGreenDeal #JustTransition

A rich, perceptive and timely (given the Employment Rights Bill) article on the P&O Ferries scandal by Alan Bogg.

Where would you go to discuss decent work with such authoritative figures as Rachel Reeves Alan Bogg Michael Ford Melanie Simms Steve Akehurst Margaret Beels (DLME) Kate Bell Manoj Dias-Abey Kate Shoesmith Gavin Kelly, Sarah O'Connor and workers at the sharp end of insecure work?

This is a very exciting new chapter! We are thrilled and proud to carry on the excellent tradition of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University! The Journal will also move open access. Please reach out if you have exciting ideas for articles and special issues.

🗓️ Today is the deadline for the transposition of the #MinimumWageDirective by EU Member States into national law So what kind of impact has the Directive had so far on #MinimumWages and #CollectiveBargaining? 💶🤝 ETUI Senior Researcher Torsten Müller takes us through the key

Big 🙏 to Yolanda Díaz for hosting the International Labour Congress in Madrid 🇪🇸 The climate & tech transitions are global, so a Global Charter of Labour Rights is what we need to: 🛠️ protect workers across the world 🛠️ forge a new social contract for a fairer future

Join for this fantastic event organised by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung EU | Global Dialogue and Green European Foundation, where they will present their new report on participation in the #EnergyTransition! I will be speaking about #JustTransition governance ✊🌍

I enjoyed sharing some thoughts on worker status and ZHCs with James Harrison and Keith Ewing while recording this Institute of Employment Rights podcast. The Bill has so much potential, but without a new and broad worker definition it could all be lost open.spotify.com/episode/2T0bfv… youtube.com/watch?v=kYBpNQ…

There's never been a more important moment to talk about employment status, as Nicola Countouris says. And that's exactly what we're doing in the latest episode of the #IERPodcast. Stream the full, indispensible episode with Nicola & Prof Keith Ewing, here: ier.org.uk/the-ier-podcas…

CALL FOR PAPERS: workshop on Employment Law Rights Bill 2024, Southampton University, 29 Jan 2025. Deadline for abstracts 16 Dec 2024. Contact me or Joe Atkinson for details. Supported by The SLS

These reforms were long in the making. Their pros and cons were carefully considered by ETUI - European Trade Union Institute in a report published a few years back etui.org/publications/r… They are not anodyne and have important economic but also social implications. theguardian.com/world/2024/dec…

Joined Kay Burley (on her birthday!) to talk about the state of our water, the bills + all the sewage. Couldn’t quite bring myself to say on air that with sewage on Shakespeare beach, the White Cliffs of Dover were becoming the Sh**e Cliffs of Dover… 👇🏽

I have a new article in print as part of the European Labour Law Journal special issue on freedom of expression in the workplace. A short piece summarising some of my PhD work on this subject, and aiming to tee up future research. Available open access at link below.

Join us in Southampton for this great (hybrid) workshop on the Employment Rights Bill convened by Joe Atkinson/Alan Eustace on 29 Jan. I will attempt some comparative reflections on the Bill and recent EU labour laws as 'counter-movements' to authoritarian neo-liberalism.