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Wednesday 4 June 2025
ONLINE | UN Special Rapporteur on ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery Affecting Incarcerated People'
Exploring the affects on Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People
In July 2024, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Professor Tomoya Obokata, published a Report entitled ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’. The Report assessed the extent to which working conditions in prison can be classified as forced and compulsory labour, and considered work opportunities after incarceration. The Special Rapporteur highlighted certain best practices but also practices that are incompatible with human rights law, and questioned whether they meet the purported aim of prison labour, namely the reintegration and rehabilitation of the incarcerated.
In this event, the Rapporteur will present his Report, and experts will comment on it.
Speakers:
- Professor Tomoya Obokata, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
- Mario Guido, UCL
- Professor Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL
- Dr Hadassa Noorda, University of Amsterdam
Chair:
Dr Marija Jovanovic, University of Oxford, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
Friday 25 October 2024
The Social Foundations of European Integration - Past, Present, and Future
A public lecture by
Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights
Introduced by Professor Eloise Scotford, Dean of the Faculty of Laws, University College London
Chaired by Nicola Countouris, Professor of Labour Law and European Law
Monday 21 October 2024
The Government's plan to deliver change and workers' rights - a trade union perspective
Speaker:
Kate Bell, Assistant General Secretary, TUC
Chair: Professor Nicola Countouris, UCL Laws
About the event:
The Labour executive has promised to deliver change in the domain of workers rights and to present a comprehensive Employment Rights Bill in its first 100-days in government. The Bill is expected to include a series of significant reforms, based on Labour's Plan to Make Work Pay: A New Deal for Working People. TUC Assistant General Secretary Kate Bell will be presenting her thoughts on some of the key reforms that the UK trade union movement is eager to see reflected in the Employment Rights Bill, but also on those that should be rolled out in course of this Parliament.
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Thursday 1 February 2024
- Prof. Lizzie Barmes (QMUL)
- Prof. Anne Davies (Oxford)
- Lord John Hendy KC (OSC, UCL)
- Prof. Anthony Kerr (UCD)
In a judgment delivered in November 2023, the UK Supreme Court found that delivery couriers working for Deliveroo were in fact genuine self-employed. Fatal to their claim of being workers in an employment relationship was a broadly worded substitution clause present in their contracts, making the finding of 'personal performance' in the provision of their work impossible.A panel of experts discussed this decision and the implications of the judgment for the fundamental categories of UK labour law, the 'employee' and 'worker' categories in particular.