The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law

Abstract

Practices across jurisdictions demonstrate that determining the boundary line remains the core question in the interplay between competition and labour law regulation. This handbook provides detailed comparative and descriptive doctrinal accounts of the intersection of competition law and collective action by non-employee workers beyond the bounds of employment in the expanding fissured workplace of the gig economy. The conflict between labour law and competition law is a long-standing and complex issue arising from the tension between the principle of market competition, emphasizing individual economic decisions, and labour law's recognition of the need for collective action by workers to protect their interests. [Extracted from the article]