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Sacha Garben

Sacha Garben is professor of EU law at the College of Europe, on leave from the European Commission. She has published inter alia on the division of competences between the EU and member states, the balance between social and economic rights and the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Quick commerce—not turning a fast buck

Steve Rolf, Sacha Garben, Wil Hunt and Rachel Verdin

The good news is most ‘q-commerce’ workers have employment contracts. The bad news is they still get squeezed.

‘Old’ rules and protections for the ‘new’ world of work

Sacha Garben

A ‘rebuttable presumption of employment’ is emerging as a response to platforms denying their workers employee status.

Tackling precarity in the platform economy—and beyond

Sacha Garben

To focus on online platforms in isolation would miss the point that they are part of a wider phenomenon of spreading and intensifying precarity at work.