Visas created hastily to solve labour shortages as a result of Brexit have put workers at greater risk of modern slavery and exploitation - great to see this coverage of our research on care and agricultural workers by Emily Dugan theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

We are proud to jointly release this collaborative report, shining a light on how the UK’s immigration and visa rules fuel exploitation and precarity among migrant care and farm workers 🧵modernslaverypec.org/resources/uk-a…

Published today: our new joint report with NGO and academic partners (details in next tweet) about how restrictive visa schemes and inadequate labour enforcement are fuelling exploitation and precarity among migrant care and agricultural workers
modernslaverypec.org/resources/uk-a…

The report from our joint research on agriculture and care is out today - modernslaverypec.org/resources/uk-a… FLEX JCWI Southeast and East Asian Centre - SEEAC Kanlungan Filipino Consortium Natalie Sedacca Manoj Dias-Abey Konstantinos Alexandris Polomarkakis Joyce Jiang Modern Slavery PEC

Interested in #PhD research? Funding available Royal Holloway Law and Criminology pls get in touch via email royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/…

Looking forward to Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) conference starting this afternoon. On Tuesday at 11am in room 1.4 we'll be discussing our project on migrant care and agricultural workers and how immigration rules and labour policies create preconditions for exploitation and trafficking #LLRN6

1/ Yesterday there was a fascinating session of the House of Lords Horticultural Sector Committee committee looking at exploitation on the UK's seasonal worker visa scheme. There were some shocking revelations, which you probably missed because it got ZERO press coverage. So here is a 🧵 with some highlights.

1/ Details of Government's proposed changes to the Working Time Regs - thread:

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NEW: Imagine living with five people in a caravan that's smaller than a one-bedroom flat & together paying up to £2000 a month in rent.

That's how migrant farm workers live in the UK. In the worst cases in freezing cold, mouldy & mice-infested caravans.🧵
thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-0…

Are there European standards on the right to strike? Yes.

Do those European standards support the introduction of minimum service levels in the UK? No.

New SSRN working paper here addressing these two questions, and the misuse of comparative argument -

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Following on from our investigation, NGOs & academics have today written to the government demanding an overhaul of the seasonal worker visa scheme, including the creation of an independent agency to enforce seasonal workers' employment rights.

More👇
vice.com/en/article/v7b…

We welcome the investigation into the UK's agricultural Seasonal Worker visa scheme by Emiliano Mellino Shocking to see that despite years of concerns regarding risks for workers on the scheme, workers continue to report exploitation & a lack of redress thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-0…

CELS hybrid webinar on February 8, 1:30-2:30 (Building One/Syndicate Room C) will host prof. Phil Syrpis (University of Bristol Phil Syrpis) presenting on 'The EU rule of law crisis and the effective enforcement of EU law'. Join us in person or on Zoom (Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/91776298654?…).

Our Workshop ‘Understanding  #EU  legal integration/disintegration’ just started online & in person at The City Law School w/ welcomes from co-hosts Elaine Fahey Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations Institute for the Study of European Laws (ISEL),@Zahn_RL Strathclyde Law School,Fabien Terpan Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA & keynote speech by Mikael Rask Madsen iCourts
#EU Futures

A big thanks to Elaine Fahey @Zahn_RL & Fabien Terpan for organising an excellent conference EUFUTURESnetwork! Fascinating papers & chuffed to discuss mine on the contribution of marginalised litigants to legal integration, recently published in EuropeanLawOpen bit.ly/3Wu2iZM

On Wed 30 Nov, 3-4pm, on Zoom Professor Fernanda Nicola (American University Washington College of Law) will present to us her paper “The Anti-authoritarian Dialogue of the European Court of Justice: Re-politicization and Self-doubt”. Fernanda G. Nicola Konstantinos Alexandris Polomarkakis Joasia Luzak

Sunday's reading: Dr Konstantinos Alexandris Polomarkakis paper 'Gendered Capital and Litigants in EU Equality Case-Law' published earlier this year in Modern Law Review Konstantinos Alexandris Polomarkakis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…