Projects
Disability and re-integration in labour law. Legal research into the reintegration of disabled employees on the labour market. KU Leuven
Our labour market has to face a number of challenges as a result of the ageing of the population and the increased globalization. International and European policy makers call upon the national countries to allow as many people as possible to participate in the labour market. This is usually referred to as the re-integration concept. This raises the question of whether Belgian labour law complies with the re-integration concept, moreover ...
Labour law and sports law KU Leuven
This research project investigates the connection between labour law and sports law. With sports understood as both an economic and social activity, this research examines how relations between athletes, clubs and federations in the world of sport have to be understood. It will be examined whether and how labour law applies to the world of sport and whether and how this interplay contributes to the broader understanding of ...
Robotization and labour law : A legal study on humanization of work and technology KU Leuven
This study deals with robotisation and labour law. Robots have been part of workplaces for several decades and are therefore not a new phenomenon. In recent years, however, some technological developments can be observed that make robots increasingly autonomous. For instance, they are equipped with sensors that can better perceive their surroundings. They can additionally give more meaning to this perceived information through various ...
Nullity in Labour Law Ghent University
The nullity of obligations is an important doctrine in general contract law. Nullity occurs as a sanction for an agreement/obligation/legal act that fails to meet all the requirements for validity at its formation, resulting in it having no legal effect. There has been limited scholarly research conducted on nullity in Belgian (individual and collective) labour law and the extent to which its application in this field differs from the general ...
International, European and Comparative Labour Law KU Leuven
Reserach covering a variety of issues of international, European and comparative labour law including case law, currently focusing on questions of in-work poverty, platform work, algorithmic management, the social rights of self-employed workers, multi-party work relationships, vocational training systems, and social and labour aspects of the green transition.
Labour Law and the global supply chain KU Leuven
Lords, land, and labour. The influence of seigneuries on economic development in the late medieval Low Countries (c. 1350 – c. 1550) Ghent University
This project probes the impact of political elites on pre-modern economies. The central concept is the seigneurie, the institution that cemented the rural elite’s power over populations in the countryside. Seigneuries impacted upon the rural economy through their powers of surplus extraction that proceeded from coercion rather than market exchange. Yet, while elite rent-seeking infringed on the income of the peasantry, the macro-economic ...
Smart mobility in the European labour market: a legal assessment of the European approach to transnational labour in the new world of work KU Leuven
This research project examines the influence of the new world of work on the legal setting of transnational labour in the EU and attempts to reach out an improved typology of labour mobility and suggestions to adapt the current European mobility legislation. The main focus concerns therefore the question whether the current European mobility legislation still offers an adequate response to a specific new form of work, namely the smart ...