Employment Law

This resource is a guide to understanding the various types of non-standard work arrangements and employers' obligations towards such workers. It provides a legal and practical overview of the rights and obligations afforded to non-standard employees and independent contractors.

The completion of ‘tasks’, ‘gigs’, or ‘rides’ in the (digital) crowd fundamentally challenges our understanding of work in modern labour markets: gone are the stable employment relationships between firms and workers, replaced by a world in which everybody can be ‘their own boss’ and enjoy the rewards—and face the risks—of independent businesses.

This book analyses the impact of digitisation in labour markets, on labour relationships and also on labour processes. As new technologies transform work patterns and change the type of jobs available - destroying some while creating others - and even the nature of the tasks performed, numerous legal problems arise which are challenging to legislators and legal scholars who need to find appropriate solutions to them. Considering the labour law issues which have been created by technological developments and currently affect the work of millions worldwide, this book highlights the full scope of these issues, suggesting solutions to emerging problems and ways to mitigate the risks brought about through technological advancement.

The book demonstrates the potential for improved labour regulation and case law to address the situation both at EU and national level.

Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through sociological and legal perspectives with feminist theoretical insights, the authors examine the case study of contemporary professional passenger driving in the United States.