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🚨 A note for readers: Starting from the next volume, new issues of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal will be available at this website: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cllpj/

We hope you find this special issue insightful! 🔍📖 #LaborLaw #WorkerRights #CLLPJ

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📌 Eric Tucker – Something Old, Something New & a Lot That’s Blue
From a Marxist perspective, Tucker examines how worker subordination has intensified over 50 years & calls for a progressive legal reform agenda.

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📌 Elena Gramano – Nothing, Yet Everything New Under the Sun
She contends that subordination remains a crucial legal concept, despite changing work environments, and should include organizational control as a key factor.

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📌 Valerio De Stefano & Nicola Kountouris – Lifting the Private-Law Veil
They challenge the idea that employment contracts are freely negotiated & argue that employer authority is historically shaped by public law & power.

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The issue features peer-reviewed articles by leading labour law scholars:

📌 Alan Bogg & Cindy Estlund – Between Authority & Domination: Taming the Managerial Prerogative
They argue that "managerial prerogative" should be rethought with stronger checks & balances to ensure worker freedom.

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This issue explores:
🔹 The legitimacy & limits of employer authority
🔹 The nature of worker subordination in democratic societies
🔹 Strategies to ensure managerial prerogatives align with the rule of law

It’s open access & fully available here: cllpj.law.illinois.edu/archive/vol_...

Thank you!

Would love to be added if possible

@huwthomas.bsky.social @alexjwood.bsky.social @stephross.bsky.social @valeriodeste.bsky.social @eidlin.bsky.social @gencoderrelapalme.bsky.social @kjacobs9.bsky.social are some good names to add.

… that courts and policymakers should do more to ensure that employers’ mandates are reasonable and proportionate. The blog is based on a recent article showing how employer powers are still imbued with authoritarian elements at odds with democratic norms papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....