Stefano Angeleri – with his colleagues Eimear Spain and Jennifer Schweppe (School of Law), and Dr Majka Ryan (Work & Employment Studies) – all members of UL’s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Hate and Inequalities (SHINE), have submitted, in consultation with the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC), a third-party submission in response to Ireland’s 21st National Report on the implementation of the European Social Charter.
The submission has now been published as SHINE Research for Action Report Series: 2026–1 on the Council of Europe website, alongside the Irish Government’s report and the submission of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. It will be considered by the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) as part of its assessment of Ireland’s implementation of key labour rights under the European Social Charter.
Rather than addressing every issue raised in the ECSR’s questions and Ireland’s state report, the SHINE/ANESC submission focuses on areas where the authors could provide robust, evidence-based analysis. Specifically, it examines:
- the working time of medical professionals (Article 2 ESC);
- psychosocial risks and other new and emerging occupational risks in the gig and platform economy (Article 3 ESC);
- fair remuneration in atypical forms of employment (Article 4 ESC).
The report can be accessed here: https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-social-charter/ireland