Aude Cefaliello
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) represents ‘gig’ workers. At the end of November the High Court of England and Wales ruled, in its favour, that the government of the United Kingdom had failed adequately to transpose two European Union occupational health-and-safety directives into domestic law.
The ‘Framework Directive’ 89/391/EEC, on measures to encourage improvement in workers’ health and safety at work, is the cornerstone of the OSH regime in the EU, providing principles of prevention with which employers are charged. Among them is the obligation to assess risks at the workplace and to adopt general and particular measures, including provision of personal protective equipment as regulated by Directive 89/656/EEC to prevent them.
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In the landmark case The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions & Ors, the Court found firmly in favour of a union.