Covid-19 and the Failure of Labour Law: Part 1
| Autor: | Keith Ewing, Q. C. Lord Hendy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Special Issue: Covid-19
Labour Law and the Renewal of the Social State. Edited by Simon Deakin and Tonia Novitz AcademicSubjects/SOC00280 media_common.quotation_subject Labour law Articles Occupational safety and health Work (electrical) Political science Normative Psychological resilience Substantive law AcademicSubjects/LAW00230 Set (psychology) Enforcement Law media_common Law and economics |
| Zdroj: | Industrial Law Journal |
| ISSN: | 1464-3669 0305-9332 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/indlaw/dwaa026 |
| Popis: | In this article, we consider how Covid-19 revealed the extent to which, in Britain, the core functions of labour law have been compromised by successive governments stretching back to the 1980s and how workers collectively have been failed as a result by a discipline intended ostensibly in their interests. We seek to measure these deficits against a set of core normative principles rooted in ILO standards which we believe underpin labour law as a discipline of worker protection. We look first at the exploitation of critical workers; second at the failure generally to make adequate provision for income security; and third at issues relating to health and safety at work. Our consideration of these issues addresses both the substantive law and the means for its enforcement. Having considered the systemic failures and lack of resilience of British labour law in this article, we intend to return to the theme in Part II at a later date to address the lessons learned and the overhaul which the pandemic has revealed to be necessary. |
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