Assistant Professor Aljoša Polajžar, Ph.D.
- Labour Law
- European Labour Law
- Legal Informatics
- English Legal Terminology
- Advanced English Legal Terminology
- MUN and Moot I & II
Aljoša Polajžar, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law University of Maribor. In September 2024, he defended his doctoral dissertation "Collective labour rights of platform workers", which he prepared under the supervision of Full professor Darja Senčur Peček, Ph.D. His research interests predominantly include various legal aspects of employee protection in an employment relationship (new forms of work, protection of privacy and personal data of the worker, collective labour law, human rights, the challenges of digitisation and artificial intelligence, platform work, etc.).
He is participating in national research projects »Measures to improve working conditions in platform work in Slovenia: legal analysis (PLATFOsi)« and »Analysis of platform work in Slovenia (ADPS): current situation and key challenges« (funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency and Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities). He has co-authored commentaries on the Labour Relations Act, the Civil Servants Act and the Public Sector Wage System Act. He is an associate editor of the international scientific journal LeXonomica (WoS) in the field of Law.
Selected publications:
POLAJŽAR, Aljoša. Analysis of the criteria for establishing the existence of an employment relationship of platform workers under the Platform Work Directive – high expectations and limited outcome?. Revista jurídica Portucalense. 2025, vol. 1, no. 38, str. 106-122. ISSN 2183-5705. https://revistas.rcaap.pt/juridica/article/view/41057, DOI: 10.34625/issn.2183-2705(38)2025.ic-6., [SNIP, WoS, Scopus]
POLAJŽAR, Aljoša. Access of platform workers to collective rights – the fall of the binary divide?. Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. 2024, roč. 32, č. 2, str. 195-212. ISSN 1210-9126. https://journals.muni.cz/cpvp/article/view/38115, DOI: 10.5817/CPVP2024-2-1. [SNIP, Scopus]
POLAJŽAR, Aljoša. Covert surveillance at the workplace and the ECtHR approach : possible risks of breaching GDPR rules. E-journal of international and comparative labour studies. 2023, vol. 12, no. 3, str. 20-46. ISSN 2280-4056. https://ejcls.adapt.it/index.php/ejcls_adapt/article/view/1451. [SNIP, Scopus]
SENČUR PEČEK, Darja, POLAJŽAR, Aljoša. Privacy at work in Slovenia. V: HENDRICKX, Frank (ur.), MANGAN, David (ur.), GRAMANO, Elena (ur.). Privacy@work : a European and comparative perspective. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International B.V., [2023]. Str. 469-491. ISBN 978-94-035-3106-9.
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