…WTO Members to inscribe their specific MA and NT commitments in their Schedules of Commitments (“SC”). GATS Article XVI:1 provides for minimum MA commitments guaranteed by a Member. It prevents…
…their vehicle to deliver parcels and their mobile phones to communicate with the company. The terms and conditions offered an unusual amount of leeway: Couriers were also able to appoint…
…Commission Recommendation on a common Union toolbox for the use of technology and data to combat and exit from the COVID-19 crisis, in particular concerning mobile applications and the use…
…is widely known that the shift toward automation can significantly affect the rights and freedoms of natural persons, which means that appropriate safeguards must be provided. To the extent that…
…the danger of a computer virus. Can a company, which is forced to close down because it is unable to comply with social distancing measures, simply replace its employees with…
…right to respect for private and family life, home and communications) and the interests of employers, which can fall under the protection of Article 16 EUCFR (freedom to conduct a…
…also coding competitions to build digital solutions to combat the pandemic’s effects. #BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon, sponsored by Facebook, Microsoft and numerous other tech companies, include contact-tracing apps and online…
…included pandemics in their National Security Strategy. For example, Russia has mentioned a pandemic among threats to its national security in public health sphere. Second, there are already examples in…
…See Energy Watchdog v. CERC, (2017) 14 SCC 80. [6] See SEBI Whole Time Member order in the matter of open offer of M/s Jyoti Limited, WTM/SR/CFD/39/08/2016 available at https://www.sebi.gov.in/sebi_data/attachdocs/1470054168949.pdf…
…scenario). (www.ilo.org) We will, however, also need to reflect about the impact of the coronavirus on our ways of working and broader, on working conditions. Let us limit this, for…
…Belgium, an umbrella company set up under the form of a cooperative that, in return of a fee, provides for ‘fictious’ employment contracts to precarious gig-workers or freelancers for work…
…the court has reviewability power to check the compliance of good faith by the member as embodied under Article 26 of the VCLT. As is clear from above, the International…
…the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are controlled by Israel. Most of the international community and, in primis, the UN bodies have deplored the occupation by referring to the rules…
…PD to accept these as commitments. The emphasis moved to a free trade agreement (FTA) in which the UK would apply by its own autocthonous standards. The fear amongst opponents…
…maintain common high standards, in that it is harmful to open and fair competition. For example, it would seem reasonable that this should involve not only consideration of the harmful…
…digitalization of the workplace is a multi-stage process. The first stage (innovations in communications) has seen a change in the means by which communications have been conducted where there are…
…Office commissioned a comparative legal research on this topic. We were privileged to be able to conduct this research, which resulted in a working paper just published by ILO (important…
…applied and these goods were found to be ‘medicaments’ and free of duty. This opens the door to payments of refunds of duty for those who had paid duty based…
…to consider possible impacts on trade and the industry which implements that trade. The most recent relevant example is associated with the 2002 – 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)…
…commitments start with “the Parties”. This may be because the commitments in the chapter mainly consist of reaffirmation of their existing undertakings under international instruments such as the G20 communiques…
