Shows
Centrow Labour Market RegulationFreedom of Association: the Challenges with Organising and Registration’ with Siza MilamboFreedom of Association: the Challenges with Organising and Registration’ with Siza Milambo (a member of the Simunye Workers Forum) (26 June 2024)2025-02-061h 13
Centrow Labour Market RegulationOrganising in the Platform Economy: Perspectives from Kenya and Nigeria’ with Adedamola Adeniran, Bill Mutoro and Ruth Castel-BrancoE8. ‘Organising in the Platform Economy: Perspectives from Kenya and Nigeria’ with Adedamola Adeniran, Bill Mutoro and Ruth Castel-Branco (25th October 2023)2025-02-061h 48
Centrow Labour Market RegulationOrganising in the Platform Economy: Developments in the e-Hailing Sector of South AfricaOrganising 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)2025-01-202h 04
Centrow Labour Market RegulationRecent Developments in Employment Equity with Meko MagidaThis 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 Paul Benjamin, Extraordinary Professor at UWC's Faculty of Law, focusing on affirmative action, legal reform, and the future of work.2025-01-201h 29
Centrow Labour Market RegulationA Tribute to Myrtle Witbooi – Giving Effect to Labour Rights for Domestic WorkersSpeaker: 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’ engagement with everyday life, their social networks and the building of their political subjectivities. Ms Khounou has worked intensely on the campaign for inclusion of domestic workers under COIDA.2023-06-121h 27
Centrow Labour Market RegulationHow can bargaining rights be extended to non-employees? The European experienceSpeaker: 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’ experience2023-06-121h 12
Centrow Labour Market RegulationTUMSA Trade Union for Musicians of South AfricaCENTROW 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 their primary source of income. Gabi Le Roux is the General Secretary for TUMSA.2023-06-031h 20
Centrow Labour Market RegulationMiriam 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 firm of Berman, DeValerio & Pease, where she took part in litigating several accounting fraud cases including those against former...2023-06-031h 04
Centrow Labour Market RegulationNicola 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. He has acted as an independent expert for the International Labour Office, the ETUC, and on a number of European Commission funded projects. Nicola...2023-06-031h 40
Centrow Labour Market RegulationLord 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, Extraordinary Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape and Director, Cheadle Thompson and Haysom Inc. Prof Benjamin has more than 25 years lega...2023-06-031h 28