On the menu : a gig economy employer obliged to officially recognize a trade union in the UK, Clarification of maximum working time in Korea, Salary agreement for the Volkswagen Autoeuropa plant in Portugal.
Great Britain/a gig economy employer obliged to officially recognize a trade union. On 28 February, the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), tasked to rule on union recognition disputes, decided (decision here) that The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), which uses a hundred or so freelance couriers, would have to recognize the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain. The union called this a landmark decision as it makes the IWGB the first union to be recognized by a company using the gig economy. Dr
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