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Labor Law - Common Market - Public Policy Regarding Personal Conduct May Act As A Restraint On The Free Movement Of Labor In The European Economic Community, William A. O'Dell Jul 2016

Labor Law - Common Market - Public Policy Regarding Personal Conduct May Act As A Restraint On The Free Movement Of Labor In The European Economic Community, William A. O'Dell

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Minimum Fees For The Self-Employed: A European Response To The "Uber-Ized" Economy?, Eva Grosheide, Mark Barenberg Jan 2016

Minimum Fees For The Self-Employed: A European Response To The "Uber-Ized" Economy?, Eva Grosheide, Mark Barenberg

Faculty Scholarship

In advanced market economies in Europe and North America, a large and growing percentage of the workforce is self-employed. This group earns a contractual fee from clients, rather than a wage or salary from employers, one form of the so-called "Uberization" of the labor market. Through an analysis of the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) rulings, this Article explores whether minimum fees for the self-employed could be implemented without infringing European Union (EU) competition law. In particular, it lays out four possible legal mechanisms – what the paper dubs "U-turns" – that swerve around the social harms …