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Centrow Labour Market Regulation

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The University of the Western Cape (UWC) Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW) Webinar Series enables participants in South African labour market debates to deepen their knowledge on contemporary debates from around the world on regulatory responses to the changing nature of work and the persistence of inequality and insecurity in the world of work.The Series is facilitated by Prof Paul Benjamin, Extraordinary Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape and Director, Cheadle Thompson and Haysom Inc.

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Recent Developments in Employment Equity with Meko Magida

This episode examines key legal developments in employment equity and labour law in South Africa. Meko Magida, Executive Director of Human Resources at the University of the Western Cape, discusses his role in implementing the Employment Equity Act and establishing the Commission for Employment Equity. Shamima Gaibie, Senior Director at Cheadle Thompson & Haysom Inc., and Roger Ronnie, researcher and former trade unionist, provide additional perspectives. The discussion is facilitated by Pau...

Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 7

A Tribute to Myrtle Witbooi – Giving Effect to Labour Rights for Domestic Workers

Speaker: Adelle Blackett - Prof. of Law at McGill University, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, Centrow Associate. Prof. Blackett served as the lead International Labour Organization (ILO) expert in a treaty-making process for Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, and preparing a draft Haitian labour code. Respondent: Kelebogile Khounou – Researcher: Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI). Ms Khounou’s Masters research was based on domestic workers’...

Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 6

How can bargaining rights be extended to non-employees? The European experience

Speaker: Prof Edoardo Ales, Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations, University of Naples and Extraordinary Professor, UWC ‘ILO standards and the right to collective bargaining for self-employed workers in the EU: lessons for South Africa?’ Respondent: Mario Jacobs, Researcher and Programme Convenor Labour, Development and Governance Research Unit (LDG), University of Cape Town and former trade union official with more than 20 years’ experience

Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 5

TUMSA Trade Union for Musicians of South Africa

CENTROW Webinar Series: Rethinking Collective Bargaining & Organisational Rights: Trade union and collective bargaining rights for workers who are not employees: organisational and constitutional issues' Founded 17 May 2018, TUMSA – Trade Union for Musicians of South Africa – established its National Head Office in Cape Town, South Africa. TUMSA regards itself as an authentic and representative Trade Union. TUMSA members are employees and self-employed workers who are dependent on music for ...

Jun 03, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 4

Miriam Cherry 'California's "Gig Battles": Technology and trends in the US labour market'

Prof Miriam Cherry obtained her doctorate at Harvard Law School after which she clerked for Justice Roderick Ireland of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and then for Judge Gerald Heaney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 2001, she joined the Boston law firm of Foley Hoag LLP, where she practiced corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance filings, venture capital, and private debt financing. She was also associated with the fi...

Jun 03, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 3

Nicola Countouris 'Current debates on the definition of work & employment in Europe and the EU'

Prof Nicola Countouris is the Director of the Research Department at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels and a Professor in Labour Law and European Law at the Faculty of Laws of University College London (UCL). He is a prolific author having written or co-written some 55 publications, including the definitive work “The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations” co-authored with Mark Freedland (who was Nicola’s PhD supervisor) and published by Oxford University Press in 2011...

Jun 03, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 2

Lord John Hendy 'The UK Status of Workers Bill, 2021 and the abolition of insecure work'

“The UK Status of Workers Bill, 2021 and the abolition of insecure work” The Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW), University of the Western Cape webinars are aimed at enabling participants in South African labour market debates to deepen their knowledge on contemporary debates from around the world on regulatory responses to the changing nature of work and the persistence of inequality and insecurity in the world of work. The Series is facilitated by Professor Paul Benjamin, E...

Jun 03, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1
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