When: 9 June 2026, 9.30 am – 1.30 pm
Where: Marseille Room, Level 4, Besenbinderhof 60, Hamburg
A collaboration between Arbeit und Leben Hamburg and HAW Hamburg as part of TRAM4DW
Counsellors from practical organisations specialising in labour law, labour market integration and migration, representatives from public authorities and academic staff will have the opportunity to discuss the framework conditions for working with dignity.
Dr Nikolai Huke from the University of Hamburg will open the event with a presentation on the topic “Legal mobilisation in cases of labour law violations: barriers and bridges to accessing labour law for foreign workers”.
Why are labour law violations part of everyday life in many sectors in Germany? What prevents affected workers from asserting their rights? What can counselling on labour law achieve, and where are its limits? The lecture will discuss these questions based on empirical findings from the research project “Labour Rights in Precarious Living Situations”, for which over 70 qualitative interviews were conducted with predominantly foreign workers as well as experts from labour law advice centres.
About the TRAM4DW project
How does the right to free movement affect national labour markets, particularly the employment of foreign workers; how are EU regulations applied and complied with, and are conditions for decent work being created in selected European countries? – these and similar questions form the starting point for the work in the “Transnational Migration Counselling For Decent Work” project. The partners aim to implement preventive measures to address precarious working conditions at four locations in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain and Ukraine.
