Publicaties

The world of work is changing at a considerably high speed. Work arrangements alternative to the standard, open-ended and full-time ones now represent the new reality. These forms of employment include atypical work arrangements such as temporary and casual work, agency work and subcontracting, part-time work, and bogus and dependent self-employment. Work in the gig-economy shares numerous dimensions with all these kind of arrangements. In ...

My research will focus on the human rights protection of self-employed workers, and specially on workers engaged in the so-called platform economy. This is because they often find themselves in the grey zone between employment and self-employment, an issue that it is certainly not novel. The widespread use of freelance jobs entails the risk of leaving such workers outside the scope of protection of fundamental human rights. Indeed, for instance, ...