Centrow Labour Market Regulation

Freedom of Association: the Challenges with Organising and Registration’ with Siza Milambo (a member of the Simunye Workers Forum) (26 June 2024)

E8. ‘Organising in the Platform Economy: Perspectives from Kenya and Nigeria’ with Adedamola Adeniran, Bill Mutoro and Ruth Castel-Branco (25th October 2023)

Organising in the Platform Economy: Developments in the e-Hailing Sector of South Africa with Melithemba Mnguni, Sibongiseni Shange, Omar Parker and Shane Choshane (29 November 2023)

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, researc...

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:...

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...

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 representativ...

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...

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 wi...

“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 ine...