Equality and gender
Impact of new technologies on labour relations
Protection of disadvantages workers: women, young people, migrants, older workers, sea workers
The frontiers of Labour Law: employment and self-employment
Negotiation and representation in the workplace
This group has its beginnings in 1997 when it was created under the direction of Professor Jesús Cruz Villalón and with the line of investigation represented by the technological changes and influences in the labor relations. Later, in 2009, Professor Teresa Perez del Rio assumed the coordination of the group and with it a change in the name of the group and in its basic line of research, opting for a very defined and interdisciplinary one: equal rights for women, with special attention to working women. The group had therefore a first moment of high scientific production and quality in this area. After several years of variable results and coinciding with the retirement of Professor Perez del Rio, the suitability of varying the general line of research of the group arises, passing the group at the end of 2018 to have as denomination "The Protection of Labor Rights", thus allowing varied sub-lines of research framed within this thematic, and that are those that in the last years are being developed in a particular way by the members of the group. In this aspect, the research carried out on the impact of new technologies on labour relations, the border areas between employed and self-employed work, the protection of disadvantaged workers (young people, women, older people, migrants, sea workers, etc.), or the negotiating and representative framework in workplaces, especially in small companies, stands out.