Jeremias Adams-Prassl

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Biography

Jeremias' research focuses on technology, innovation policy, and the future of work. He is a Fellow of Magdalen College, and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law. Jeremias read law at Oxford, Paris, and Harvard Law School, and has held visiting teaching and/or research positions at institutions including Hong Kong University, the Max Planck Institute Hamburg, Renmin Law School Beijing, University College London, the University of Vienna, and Yale Law School.

His most recent book, Humans as a Service (OUP 2018), explores the promise and perils of work in the gig economy across the world, and was awarded the 2019 St Petersburg Private Law Prize. Jeremias’ research on innovation policy and labour market regulation is frequently drawn on by governments and international organisations, and has been cited by courts, policy documents, and news organisations in multiple jurisdictions. He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Agenda for Work, Wages, and Job Creation.

Together with Professor Abi Adams-Prassl of the Oxford Department of Economics, Jeremias also writes on the law and economics of fragmenting labour markets and access to justice. His work has been recognised by a number of prizes for teaching, research, and public impact, including the Wedderburn Prize and the Apgar Prize, an Oxford University Teaching Award, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, an O2RB Excellence in Impact Award, and an ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize.

Recent publications include The Concept of the Employer (OUP 2015; Paperback 2016), and The Autonomy of Labour Law (co-ed, Hart 2015). Jeremias is one of the editors of The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016), and an editor of Chitty on Contracts (32nd ed, Sweet & Maxwell 2015). His work in European law includes co-editing the EU Law in the Member States Series (Hart) with Advocate General Michal Bobek.

From April 2021, Jeremias will lead a five-year, interdisciplinary project exploring the rise of Algorithms at Work, funded by the European Research Council and a 2020 Leverhulme Prize.

Jeremias welcomes supervision enquiries in employment and EU law, and tweets about the future of work @JeremiasPrassl.

Publications

Featured publications

  • J Adams-Prassl, The Concept of the Employer (OUP 2015)
    Reviewed: D Cabrelli (2016) 79 MLR 364; B Jones (2016) 132 LQR 167; J Fudge (2016) 45 ILJ 270; M Risak (2016) 3 Zeitschrif für Arbeits- und Sozialrecht 199; DM Cairós Barreto (2015) 10 Revista Trabajo y Derecho 134; L Ratti (2016) 148 Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 581; C Fenwick (2016) 155 International Labour Review 164; E McGaughey (2017) 37 OJLS 482.

    Reprinted with corrections (2015); Paperback (2016)


    Employment law struggles to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work and service companies to corporate groups and Private Equity investors. This book argues that the cause of this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with internal contradictions: English law searches for the unitary counterparty to a bilateral contract of employment by reference to a series of multi-functional tests. As a result of this tension, full employment law coverage is restricted to the narrow scenario where a single legal entity exercises all employer functions⎯a paradigm far from the fragmented reality of modern labour markets.

    These problems can only be addressed by a careful reconceptualization leading to the development of a functional concept of the employer. The book draws on existing models in English and European law to develop a definition of the employer as the entity, or combination of entities, exercising functions regulated in a particular domain of employment law. Each strand of the received concept of the employer is examined in turn to demonstrate how this more openly multifunctional approach can successfully overcome the rigidities of the current notion without abandoning a coherent underlying framework. The book fills a crucial gap in employment law and corporate law by exposing the defects in our current understanding of the employer and by developing a new functional concept appropriate for both traditional and emerging work arrangements.
    ISBN: 978-0-19-873553-3
  • N Countouris, S Deakin, M Freedland A Koukiadaki and J Adams-Prassl, Report on Temporary Employment Agencies and Temporary Agency Work: A Comparative Analysis of the Law on Temporary Work Agencies and the Social and Economic Implications of Temporary Work in 13 European Countries (International Labour Organisation 2016)

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Book (3)

J Adams-Prassl, Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy (OUP 2018)
WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM? The gig economy promises to revolutionise work as we know it, offering flexibility and independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery. The potential benefits are enormous: consumers enjoy the convenience and affordability of on-demand work while micro-entrepreneurs turn to online platforms in search of their next gig, task, or ride. IS THIS THE FUTURE OF WORK? This book offers an engaging account of work in the gig economy across the world. Competing narratives abound: on-demand gigs offer entrepreneurial flexibility - or precarious work, strictly controlled by user ratings and algorithmic surveillance. Platforms' sophisticated technology is the product of disruptive innovation - whilst the underlying business model has existed for centuries. HOW CAN WE PROTECT CONSUMERS & WORKERS WITHOUT STIFLING INNOVATION? As courts and governments around the world begin to grapple with the gig economy, Humans as a Service explores the challenges of on-demand work, and explains how we can ensure decent working conditions, protect consumers, and foster innovation. Employment law plays a central role in levelling the playing field: gigs, tasks, and rides are work â and should be regulated as such.
ISBN: 9780198797012
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J Adams-Prassl, The Concept of the Employer (OUP 2015)
Reviewed: D Cabrelli (2016) 79 MLR 364; B Jones (2016) 132 LQR 167; J Fudge (2016) 45 ILJ 270; M Risak (2016) 3 Zeitschrif für Arbeits- und Sozialrecht 199; DM Cairós Barreto (2015) 10 Revista Trabajo y Derecho 134; L Ratti (2016) 148 Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 581; C Fenwick (2016) 155 International Labour Review 164; E McGaughey (2017) 37 OJLS 482.

Reprinted with corrections (2015); Paperback (2016)


Employment law struggles to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work and service companies to corporate groups and Private Equity investors. This book argues that the cause of this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with internal contradictions: English law searches for the unitary counterparty to a bilateral contract of employment by reference to a series of multi-functional tests. As a result of this tension, full employment law coverage is restricted to the narrow scenario where a single legal entity exercises all employer functions⎯a paradigm far from the fragmented reality of modern labour markets.

These problems can only be addressed by a careful reconceptualization leading to the development of a functional concept of the employer. The book draws on existing models in English and European law to develop a definition of the employer as the entity, or combination of entities, exercising functions regulated in a particular domain of employment law. Each strand of the received concept of the employer is examined in turn to demonstrate how this more openly multifunctional approach can successfully overcome the rigidities of the current notion without abandoning a coherent underlying framework. The book fills a crucial gap in employment law and corporate law by exposing the defects in our current understanding of the employer and by developing a new functional concept appropriate for both traditional and emerging work arrangements.
ISBN: 978-0-19-873553-3
Id: 4577
A Adams, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, The Zero-Hours Contract: Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity? (Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper 00/2015 | ELLN Research Paper 05/2015 2015)
Zero-Hours Contracts have become one of the most high-profile employment law issues of recent years. In this article, we analyse the legal and empirical evidence of work under Zero-Hours arrangements and suggest that whilst a legal engagement with Zero-Hours Contracts as an unresolved labour market problem is long overdue, the current discourse surrounding these work arrangements is fundamentally flawed: there is no such thing as the Zero-Hours Contract as a singular category; the label serves as no more than a convenient shorthand for masking the explosive growth of precarious work for a highly fragmented workforce. Ongoing attempts at regulating Zero-Hours Contracts thus constitute a significant shift towards the normalisation of all but the most extreme forms of abusive employment arrangements, leaving a rapidly increasing number of workers without recourse to employment protective norms. In concluding, we indicate ways towards a more coherent approach to the de-normalisation and progressive regulation of this large and growing set of casual work arrangements. Also published as ELLN Research Paper 05/2015 at http://www.labourlawnetwork.eu/frontend/file.php?id=769&dl=1 (ISSN 2197-1102)
ISBN: ISSN 2197-1102
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Journal Article (28)

A Lamine and J Adams-Prassl, 'Collective Autonomy for On-Demand Workers? Normative Arguments, Current Practices and Legal Ways Forward' (2018) 99 Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 269
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Reconsidering the Notion of “Employer” in the Era of the Fissured Workplace in the UK: Should Labour Law Responsibilities Exceed the Boundaries of the Legal Entity?' (2017) 95 Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 81
Also published in H Nakakubo and T Araki (eds), Reconsidering the Notion of “Employer” in the Era of Fissured Workplace: Should Labour Law Responsibilities Exceed the Boundary of the Legal Entity? (JILPT Report No. 15/2016) 73-94.
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A Adams and J Adams-Prassl, 'Vexatious Claims? Challenging the Case for Employment Tribunal Fees' (2017) 80 Modern Law Review 412
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2230.12264

Discussed in R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor, UKSC 2015/233: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2015-0233.html

Coverage in The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21719825-charging-employees-bring-employment-tribunalseven-if-they-winerodes-their-legal

Since July 2013, recourse to Employment Tribunals in the United Kingdom has attracted fees of up to £1,200 for single claimants. The impact of this reform has been dramatic: within a year, claims dropped by nearly 80 per cent. This paper suggests that this fee regime is in clear violation of domestic and international norms, including Article 6(1) ECHR and the EU principle of effective judicial protection. Drawing on rational choice theory and empirical evidence, we argue that the resulting payoff structures, negative for the majority of successful claimants, strike at the very essence of these rights. The measures are, furthermore, disproportionate in light of the Government’s stated policy aims: fees have failed to transfer cost away from taxpayers, have failed to encourage early dispute resolution, and have failed to deter vexatious litigants. The only vexatious claims, we find, appear to be those which motivated the reforms in the first place.
ISBN: 0026-7961
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Future Directions in EU Labour Law (Guest Editorial)' (2016) 7 European Labour Law Journal 323
Special volume to present results of my British Academy 'Future Directions in EU Labour Law' project
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J Adams-Prassl and M Risak, 'Uber, TaskRabbit, and Co.: Platforms as Employers? Rethinking the Legal Analysis of Crowdwork' (2016) 37 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 619
One of the key assumptions underpinning the rise of ‘crowdsourced work’ – from transport apps including Uber to online platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – is the assertion put forward by most platforms that crowdworkers are self-employed, independent contractors. As a result, individuals might find themselves without recourse to worker-protective norms, from minimum wage and working time law to health and safety regulations and unfair dismissal protection. But is this account accurate? In this paper, we hope to challenge prevailing assumptions, arguing that in certain scenarios crowdworkers can, and should, be classified as workers within the scope of domestic employment law. The approach proposed, however, is an initially counterintuitive one: we advocate the adoption of a functional concept of the employer as a regulatory solution to crowdwork employment, with platforms, crowdworkers, and service users each shouldering their appropriate share of employer responsibilities.
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J Adams-Prassl, '영국의 군중 노동자의 사회 경제적 상황과 법적 지위 (The Socioeconomic Situation and Legal Status of Crowdworkers in the UK)' (2016) 국제 노동 개요 (International Labor Brief) 19
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Business Freedoms and Employment Rights in the European Union' (2015) 17 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 189
DOI: 10.1017/cel.2015.9
In this article, I explore the substance and operation of Article 16 of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, which recognises ‘the freedom to conduct a business’, in order to determine the extent to which the constitutionalisation of commer- cial interests as fundamental rights could pose a threat to the Union’s worker-protective acquis. Having surveyed three important Directives which regulate employees’ rights in transfers of undertakings, collective redundancies, and the organisation of working time, I argue that future challenges based on Article 16 CFR are unlikely to succeed: even in situations where the Directives limit employers’ economic freedoms, such interfer- ence is justified and proportionate.
Id: 6869
J Adams-Prassl, 'Les seuils sociaux en Europe: Royaume-Uni' (2015) Revue de Droit du Travail 215
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A Adams, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'The 'Zero-Hours Contract': Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity?' (2015) Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 529
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A Adams, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'The “Zero-Hours Contract”: Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity?' (2015) 147 Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 529
Zero-Hours Contracts have become one of the most high-profile employment law issues of recent years. In this article, we analyse the legal and empirical evidence of work under Zero-Hours arrangements and suggest that whilst a legal engagement with Zero-Hours Contracts as an unresolved labour market problem is long overdue, the current discourse surrounding these work arrangements is fundamentally flawed: there is no such thing as the Zero-Hours Contract as a singular category; the label serves as no more than a convenient shorthand for masking the explosive growth of precarious work for a highly fragmented workforce. Ongoing attempts at regulating Zero-Hours Contracts thus constitute a significant shift towards the normalisation of all but the most extreme forms of abusive employment arrangements, leaving a rapidly increasing number of workers without recourse to employment protective norms. In concluding, we indicate ways towards a more coherent approach to the de-normalisation and progressive regulation of this large and growing set of casual work arrangements.
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J Adams-Prassl and B Jones, 'Verpflichtende Außergerichtliche Vermittlungsverfahren im Englischen Arbeitsrecht: ein erster Erfahrungsbericht' (2015) 28 Zeitschrift für Konflikt-Management 36
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J Adams-Prassl, '"All in it Together?" Labour Markets in Crisis' (2014) 1 Hungarian Labour Law E-Journal 23
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J Adams-Prassl, '"Mindannyiunkat egyformán érint?” Az Egyesült Királyság koalíciós kormányának munkaerő-piaci reformjai' (2014) 1 Magyar Munkajog E-Folyóirat 26
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Contingent Crises, Permanent Reforms: Rationalising Labour Market Reforms in the European Union' (2014) 5 ELLJ 211
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J Adams-Prassl, 'EU Aviation Law before the English Courts: Dawson, Huzar, and Regulation 261/2004' (2014) 39 Air & Space Law 365
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J Adams-Prassl, 'L’emploi multilatéral en droit anglais' (2014) 4 Revue de Droit du Travail 236
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Reforming Air Passenger Rights in Europe' (2014) 39 Air & Space Law 59
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Die Suche nach dem Arbeitgeber im Englischen Recht' (2013) Europäische Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht 472
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Employee Shareholder "Status"? Dismantling the Contract of Employment' (2013) 42 ILJ 307
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Implementing the New Employee-Shareholder Status' (2013) SJ 9
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Tale of (Un?)Intended Consequences: Das Vereinigte Königreich in der Krise' (2013) 49 Gesellschaft & Politik 97
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J Adams-Prassl, 'The European Union and The Montreal Convention: A New Analytical Framework' (2013) 12 Issues in Aviation Law and Policy 381
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J Adams-Prassl, 'The Notion of the Employer' (2013) 129 LQR 380
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Third Time Lucky? The Proposed Employee-Shareholder Status' (2013) SJ 19
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Industrial Action at British Airways: A Case Study' (2012) 11 Contemporary Issues in Law 113
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J Adams-Prassl and B Gardner, 'Constitutional Resettlement and Popular Sovereignty: A Caribbean Experience' (2009) 4 Justicia - Tijdschrift voor Antilliaans Recht 259
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Quistclose Trusts: In Search of Coherent Answers' (2007) 3 CSLR 51
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Chapter (30)

J Adams-Prassl, 'The Gig Economy before the Court of Justice: from digital service provision to work intermediation' in O Deinert, J Heuschmid, M Kittner, M Schmidt (ed), Demokratisierung der Wirtschaft durch Arbeitsrecht: Festschrift Thomas Klebe (Bund Verlag 2018)
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J Adams-Prassl and M Risak, 'Working in the Gig Economy – Flexibility Without Security?' in R Singer and T Bazzani (eds), European Employment Policies: Current Challenges (Berliner Juristische Universitätsschriften – Zivilrecht Band 76 2018)
Id: 10311
E Brameshuber and J Adams-Prassl, 'Die “europäische Säule sozialer Rechte"' in P Aschauer and E Brameshuber (eds), Jahrbuch Sozialversicherungsrecht (NWV Verlag 2017)
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J Adams-Prassl, 'The Abuse of Rights as a General Principle of EU Law' in A Hartkamp, C Sieburgh, and W Devroe (eds), Cases, Materials and Text on European Law and Private Law (Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe) (Hart | Bloomsbury 2017)
Id: 8767
B Jones and J Adams-Prassl, 'The Concept of the Employee: The Position in the United Kingdom' in B Waas and G Heerma van Vosss (eds), Restatement of Labour Law in Europe: Volume I (Hart | Bloomsbury 2017)
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J Adams-Prassl and M Risak, 'The Legal Protection of Crowdworkers: Four Avenues for Workers' Rights in the Virtual Realm' in P Meil and V Kirov (eds), Policy Implications of Virtual Work (Palgrave MacMillan 2017)
Id: 8744
M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, ''Chapter 40: Employment' in H Beale (ed), Chitty on Contracts – 32nd edition, 1st Supplement (Sweet & Maxwell 2016)
Id: 8778
J Adams-Prassl, 'A Fork in the Road for Freedom of Contract in EU Law: Joint Cases C-680/15 and C-681/15 Asklepios' in BJ Mulder, MJ Hotvedt, M Nesvik, and TL Sundet (eds), Sui Generis: Festskrift til Stein Evju (Universitestforlaget 2016)
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J Adams-Prassl and E Albin, 'Employees, Employers, and Beyond: Identifying the Parties to the Contract of Employment' in M Freedland et al (ed), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Flexible Arbeitsverpflichtung, Legitimierte Ausbeutung? Der ‘Zero-Hours Contract’ im Englischen Recht' in T Tomandl and M Risak (eds), Wie bewältigt das Recht Moderne Formen der Arbeit? (new academic press, Vienna 2016)
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E Albin and J Adams-Prassl, 'Fragmenting Work, Fragmented Regulation: The Contract of Employment as a Driver of Social Exclusion' in M Freedland et al (ed), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Intellectual Property and the Contract of Employment' in M Freedland et al (ed), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Tackling Diversity Through Uniformity? Revisiting the Reform of Regulation 261/2004' in M Bobek and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Air Passenger Rights, Ten Years on (Hart 2016)
Id: 7980
J Adams-Prassl, 'The Interaction of EU Law and National Law: Between Myth and Reality' in A Bogg, C Costello, and A Davies (eds), Research Handbook on EU Labour Law (Edward Elgar 2016)
Id: 8770
B Jones and J Adams-Prassl, 'The United Kingdom' in M Ebisui, S Cooney and C Fenwick (eds), Resolving Individual Labour Disputes: A Comparative Overview (International Labour Organisation 2016)
Id: 8769
Id: 7981
J Adams-Prassl, '제9장 크라우드워크에서 고용주는 누구인가: 오래된 문제, 새로운 관점 (Who are employers in crowd work: old issues, new perspectives)' in HD Soon, P Chanim, PJ Sung et al (ed), 고용관계 변화와 사회복지 패러다임 연구 (Employment Relations Change and Social Welfare Paradigm) (Korea Labor Insitute 2016)
Id: 8776
M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'Chapter 40: Employment' in H Beale (ed), Chitty on Contracts (Sweet & Maxwell 2015)
Id: 7979
J Adams-Prassl, 'Autonomous Concepts in Labour Law? The Complexities of the Employing Enterprise Revisited' in A Bogg, C Costello, ACL Davies, and J Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart|Bloomsbury 2015)
Id: 4578
J Adams-Prassl, 'Employee Shareholder ‘Status’: Dismantling the Contract of Employment' in S Willborn and AC Neal (eds), Yearbook of Comparative Labour Law Scholarship 2014 (Lancaster House 2015)
Reprint of J Prassl (2013) 42 ILJ 307
Id: 6870
A Bogg, C Costello, A Davies and J Adams-Prassl, 'Introduction: Exploring Autonomy' in A Bogg, C Costello, ACL Davies, and J Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart | Bloomsbury 2015)
Id: 4579
A Adams and J Adams-Prassl, 'Labour Legislation and Evidence-Based Public Policy: A Case Study' in A Blackham and A Ludlow (eds), New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research (Hart | Bloomsbury 2015)
ISBN: 9781849466783
Id: 4580
J Adams-Prassl, 'Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi' in R Klugseder (ed), Cantare Amantis Est, Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Franz Karl Prassl (Hollinek 2014)
Id: 4581
J Adams-Prassl, 'The United Kingdom' in B Waas (ed), The Right to Strike: A Comparative View (Kluwer 2014)
ISBN: 9041150072
Id: 4582
J Adams-Prassl, 'Three Dimensions of Heterogeneity: An Overview of Member State Experiences' in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Hart 2014)
Id: 4583
J Adams-Prassl and M Freedland, 'Viking, Laval and Beyond: An Introduction' in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Hart 2014)
Id: 4584
J Adams-Prassl and M Freedland, 'Resolving Ownership Invention Disputes: Limitations of the Contract of Employment' in M Pittard (ed), Business Innovation – A Legal Balancing Act (Elgar 2013)
Id: 5995
S Bright, H Glover and J Adams-Prassl, 'Tenancy Agreements' in E Simpson and M Stewart (eds), Sham Transactions (OUP 2013)
Id: 4586
J Adams-Prassl, 'A Kingdom No Longer United?' in B Karl et al (ed), Steirisches Jahrbuch für Politik (Schnider 2012)
Id: 5996
N Countouris, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'Social and Labour Law after the Financial Crisis: The UK' in S Laulom and E Mazuyer (eds), Le Droit Social des États Européens Après la Crise (Larcier 2012)
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Report (7)

A Adams and J Adams-Prassl, Zero-Hours Work in the United Kingdom ((2018) ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Series 101 2018)
In this report, we provide a detailed study of zero-hours work in the United Kingdom. An initial section defines zero-hours work, emphasising key characteristics as well as overlaps between zero-hours work and other casual work arrangements, and draws parallels both with historic instances of on-demand work and current experiences of ‘if and when’ contracts in the Republic of Ireland. Section two presents the most recent available data on the prevalence and key characteristics of zero- hours workers and employers, explaining the evolution of such work arrangements as well as the technical issues which make measuring the phenomenon through official labour market statistics particularly difficult. Section three complements the empirical evidence with an analysis of the effects of zero-hours work for workers, employers, and society more broadly. Our focus is not limited to the legal situation of those working under such arrangements, but also includes questions of social security entitlements, and wider implications such as business flexibility, cost savings, and productivity growth. As the fourth section explains, a growing awareness of the growth of zero-hours contracts from 2011 onwards brought about a marked increase in public discussion of the phenomenon, leading eventually to (limited) legislative intervention. We explore the positions taken by the social partners, before analysing historical as well as recent legislative responses, and setting out a case study of Parliament’s response to a particularly egregious instance of labour standards violations in warehouses operated by the sports equipment chain Sports Direct. A brief concluding section, finally, turns to a series of policy recommendations and broader considerations, with a view to finding a model in which (some of) the flexibility of zero-hours work arrangements might be preserved, without however continuing to pose a real threat to decent working conditions in the United Kingdom’s labour market.
ISBN: 2226-8944
Id: 10308
N Countouris, S Deakin, M Freedland A Koukiadaki and J Adams-Prassl, Report on Collective Dismissals: A Comparative and Contextual Analysis of the Law on Collective Redundancies in 13 European Countries (International Labour Organisation 2016)
Id: 8773
N Countouris, S Deakin, M Freedland A Koukiadaki and J Adams-Prassl, Report on Temporary Employment Agencies and Temporary Agency Work: A Comparative Analysis of the Law on Temporary Work Agencies and the Social and Economic Implications of Temporary Work in 13 European Countries (International Labour Organisation 2016)
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J Adams-Prassl, Regulating Sub-Contracting Through a Functional Definition of the Employer (NELP/AFL-CIO 2013)
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Internet Publication (9)

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Case Note (15)

J Adams-Prassl, 'Uber devant les tribunaux' (2017) 6 Revue de Droit du Travail 439 [Case Note]
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Who is a Worker?' (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 366 [Case Note]
Discusses worker status in a series of recent cases (Secretary of State for Justice v Windle [2016] EWCA Civ 459; [2016] I.C.R. 721 and Pimlico Plumbers Ltd v Smith [2017] EWCA Civ 51; [2017] I.R.L.R. 323 at the appellate level, as well as Aslam v Uber [2017] I.R.L.R. 4, and Dewhurst v Citysprint UK Ltd (2202512/2016) unreported 5 January 2017 ET).
Id: 8740
J Adams-Prassl, 'Exceptionally Unexceptional: C-257/14 Corina van der Lans v Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV and the end of Regulation 261/2004’s Exceptional Circumstances Defence' (2016) 5 Journal of European Consumer and Market Law 136 [Case Note]
Id: 8785
J Adams-Prassl, 'Liberalisation, Information, and Transparency: Three Tales of Consumer Protection in EU Aviation Law' (2015) 11 European Review of Contract Law 281 [Case Note]
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Compensation for Delayed Rail Journeys: EU Passenger Rights on Track. Case C-509/11 ÖBB Personenverkehr AG' (2014) 4 Transportrecht 158 [Case Note]
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Members, Partners, Employees, Workers? Partnership Law and Employment Status revisited. Clyde & Co LLP v Bates van Winkelhof' (2014) 43 ILJ 495 [Case Note]
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Montreal Convention Exclusivity and EU Passenger Rights: “Exposing a Grave Injustice” Stott v Thomas Cook' (2014) LQR 538 [Case Note]
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J Adams-Prassl and B Havel, 'Reforming Civil Aviation Regulation in the United Kingdom: The Civil Aviation Bill 2011-12' (2012) 11 IALP 1 [Case Note]
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J Adams-Prassl, 'Interpreting Employment Protective Legislation: Gysda Cyf v Barrett' (2011) 40 ILJ 103 [Case Note]
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J Adams-Prassl, 'To Strike, To Serve? British Airways v Unite the Union (Nos 1&2)' (2011) 40 ILJ 82 [Case Note]
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Edited Book (4)

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M Freedland (General Editor), A Bogg, D Cabrelli, H Collins, N Countouris, A Davies, S Deakin and J Adams-Prassl (eds), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
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A Bogg, C Costello, A Davies and J Adams-Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart | Bloomsbury 2015)
Reviewed: B Mak (2015) 44 ILJ 289; R Dukes (2015) CLL&PJ 223; A Morton (2016) 54 BJIR 451;

To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland's retirement from his teaching fellowship in Oxford. The chapters explore the boundaries and connections between labour law and other legal disciplines such as company law, competition law, contract law and public law; labour law and legal methodologies such as reflexive governance and comparative law and labour law and other disciplines such as ethics, economics and political philosophy. In so doing, it represents a cross-section of the most sophisticated current work at the cutting edge of labour law theory.
ISBN: 9781849466219
Id: 4589
M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Hart 2014)
Reviewed: N Reich (2015) 52 CMLRev 1135; A Ludlow (2015) 74 CLJ 361; JS Bergé [2015] RTDEur xv; S Lachnit et al (2015) 5 SEW 266; C Unseld (2016) EULawBlog; R Zahn (2016) 41 ELRev 440; K Ewing (2016) 132 LQR 683.

Paperback 2016

EU Law in the Member States is a new series dedicated to exploring the impact of landmark CJEU judgments and secondary legislation in legal systems across the European Union. Each book will be written by a team of generalist EU lawyers and experts in the relevant field, bringing together perspectives from a wide range of different Member States in order to compare and analyse the effect of EU law on domestic legal systems and practice.

The first volume focuses on the uneasy relationship between the economic freedoms enshrined in Articles 49 and 56 TFEU and the right of workers to take collective action. This conflict has been at the forefront of EU labour law since the CJEU's much-discussed decisions in C-438/05 Viking and C-341/04 Laval, as well as the Commission's more recent attempts at legislative reforms in the failed Monti II Regulation. Viking, Laval and Beyond explores judicial and legislative responses to these measures in 10 Member States, and finds that the impact on domestic legal systems has been much more varied than traditional accounts of EU law would suggest.

ISBN: 9781849466240
Id: 4590

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J Adams-Prassl, 'The European Convention on Human Rights and the Employment Relation, edited by Filip Dorssemont, Klaus Lörcher, and Isabelle Schömann' (2016) 41 ELRev 301 [Review]
Id: 7985
J Adams-Prassl, 'Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis (Countouris & Freedland); Voices at Work (Bogg & Novitz)' (2015) 131 LQR 328 [Review]
Id: 7986
Id: 4604
Id: 4605
Id: 4606

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Id: 4608

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