Workers with temporary protected status: the value and limits of delinking immigration and employment status

Gleeson, Shannon; Griffith, Kati L.

doi:10.4337/9781789902006.00016

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“…Acknowledging that labour market developments, including ‘new forms of work such as platform work and the gig economy’, presented challenges for deciding employment status, in 2021 the Irish government published a revised Code of Practice providing guidance on determining employment status (Department of Social Protection, 2021). The government confirmed it had no plans to introduce an employment category specifically for platform workers to confer on them the same rights as employees in more secure employment, arguing that this would ‘inevitably lead to a race to the bottom where hard won employment rights are gradually eroded’ (Gleeson, 2021).…”

Section: State Policy Positions and Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies

Duggan,

O’Sullivan,

O’Sullivan

2023

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to renewed discussion of decent work for people at the margins of the labour market. This article explores public policy on platform workers across three liberal market economies, namely the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland, taking the pandemic as a focal point. Liberal market economies are generally difficult environments for unions, and we examine the nature of union political pressure on the state to enhance protections for platform workers and the extent to which policy has changed in each state. We find uneven levels of such union pressure, with the most limited attention afforded by Irish unions. In the United Kingdom, the unions did exert some influence through strategic litigation, creating a policy problem for the government. More progressive policies are evident in Canada, where the government recognises that platform workers’ precarious position has undesirable consequences for the state.

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Section: State Policy Positions and Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%