Dr Antonio Garcia-Munoz Alhambra
- Lecturer in Labour Law (School of Law)
email:
Antonio.Garcia-MunozAlhambra@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Stair Building (office 530), 5 Professors' Square, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, G12 8QH
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224Biography
Antonio Garcia-Munoz is Lecturer in Labour Law. His field of expertise is labour law, including EU labour law. He has researched a wide range of labour law topics, with a focus on collective labour law and EU and international developments. Before joining Glasgow University in 2026, he was an Assistant Professor in Castilla-La Mancha University in Spain. Before that, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Luxembourg and Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he coordinated the European Centre of Expertise (ECE) in Labour Law and Labour Market policies. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Torino in Italy. He earned his PhD in Law with a thesis on European collective bargaining at sectoral level, which was published in 2017 as a monograph (in Spanish).
In 2025 and 2026 Antonio was co-director of a Postgraduate course on Labour Law for Latin American scholars and professionals held in Toledo, Spain. He is a member of the Spanish Association of Labour Law Scholars (AEDTSS). He regularly presents his work in international conferences, such as the LLRN and ILERA. In 2025, he coordinated a large European study on the implementation of digital rights in the workplace.
Research interests
Antonio’s research interests are in the area of labour law, with a particular focus on collective, EU and international labour law. Antonio has published on a wide range of topics, including EU collective bargaining and other EU labour law topics, global framework agreements, labour law and ecology, comparative labour law and in-work poverty. He is also interested in the connections between workers’ rights and collective representation and democracy and the place of labour in EU and national constitutional frameworks. He has collaborated in a number of research projects, including ‘working, yet poor’ (on the role of labour regulation in shaping in-work poverty in Europe) and, more recently, an EU-funded project on the implementation of the European declaration on Digital Rights and Principles at work.
Currently, he is conducting research on the connections between the regulation of labour and democratic ideals and models and how these have evolved in the last decades in the European context.
Publications
2026
Garcia-Muñoz Alhambra, Manuel Antonio 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2026)
Collective bargaining and the law: Spain as a case study.
In: Tomassetti, Paolo, Bugada, Alexis and Forsyth, Anthony (eds.)
The Law and Collective Bargaining: Sources and Patterns of Regulation in the Modern World of Work.
Bloomsbury: London, pp. 133-150.
ISBN 9781509988112
(doi: 10.5040/9781509988082.ch-008)
2025
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2025)
Social dialogue and collective bargaining in the European Union legal order.
In: Casas Baamonde, Maria Emilia, García-Perrote Escartín, Ignacio, Gil Alburquerque, Román, Gómez García-Bernal, Adriano and Sempere Navarro, Antonio V. (eds.)
EU Labour and Employment Law. Interpretation by the Court of Justice (ECJ).
Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: Madrid, pp. 929-953.
ISBN 9788434031036
2024
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224 and Ratti, Luca
(2024)
The regulation of remote work. Seeking balance through the articulation of labour law sources: a comparative appraisal.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 40(3),
(doi: 10.54648/ijcl2024012)
2023
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2023)
Collective bargaining of self-employed workers and competition law in the EU.
Lavoro, Diritti, Europa, 2023(3),
2022
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2022)
An uncertain future for EU-level collective bargaining: the new rules of the game After EPSU.
Industrial Law Journal, 51(2),
pp. 318-345.
(doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwac006)
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224, Ratti, Luca and Vergnat, Vincent
(2022)
The challenge of defining, measuring, and overcoming in-work poverty in Europe: an introduction.
In: Ratti, Luca (ed.)
In-Work Poverty in Europe. Vulnerable and Under-represented Persons in a Comparative Perspective.
Kluwer Law International B.V., pp. 1-36.
ISBN 9789403549965
2020
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2020)
Harnessing public institutions for labour law enforcement.
International Organizations Law Review, 17,
pp. 233-260.
(doi: 10.1163/15723747-01701010)
Articles
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224 and Ratti, Luca
(2024)
The regulation of remote work. Seeking balance through the articulation of labour law sources: a comparative appraisal.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 40(3),
(doi: 10.54648/ijcl2024012)
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2023)
Collective bargaining of self-employed workers and competition law in the EU.
Lavoro, Diritti, Europa, 2023(3),
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2022)
An uncertain future for EU-level collective bargaining: the new rules of the game After EPSU.
Industrial Law Journal, 51(2),
pp. 318-345.
(doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwac006)
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2020)
Harnessing public institutions for labour law enforcement.
International Organizations Law Review, 17,
pp. 233-260.
(doi: 10.1163/15723747-01701010)
Book Sections
Garcia-Muñoz Alhambra, Manuel Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2026)
Collective bargaining and the law: Spain as a case study.
In: Tomassetti, Paolo, Bugada, Alexis and Forsyth, Anthony (eds.)
The Law and Collective Bargaining: Sources and Patterns of Regulation in the Modern World of Work.
Bloomsbury: London, pp. 133-150.
ISBN 9781509988112
(doi: 10.5040/9781509988082.ch-008)
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224
(2025)
Social dialogue and collective bargaining in the European Union legal order.
In: Casas Baamonde, Maria Emilia, García-Perrote Escartín, Ignacio, Gil Alburquerque, Román, Gómez García-Bernal, Adriano and Sempere Navarro, Antonio V. (eds.)
EU Labour and Employment Law. Interpretation by the Court of Justice (ECJ).
Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: Madrid, pp. 929-953.
ISBN 9788434031036
Garcia-Munoz Alhambra, Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-1224, Ratti, Luca and Vergnat, Vincent
(2022)
The challenge of defining, measuring, and overcoming in-work poverty in Europe: an introduction.
In: Ratti, Luca (ed.)
In-Work Poverty in Europe. Vulnerable and Under-represented Persons in a Comparative Perspective.
Kluwer Law International B.V., pp. 1-36.
ISBN 9789403549965
Prior publications
Article
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra (2025) Algunas anotaciones sobre salario mínimo y negociación colectiva Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra (2024) Diálogo social europeo: ámbitos de aplicación y potencial Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Luca Ratti, Nuna Zekic, Mijke Houwerzijl, Ane Aranguiz (2024) Equal yet poor: the ineffective protection of atypical workers under EU law European Labour Law Journal Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra (2024) ¿Qué es la pobreza laboral? El impacto de un concepto complejo en la norma laboral Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra (2023) Dismissal Law in Spain TvO Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra, Luca Ratti (2023) La pobreza laboral en la Unión Europea. Concepto, causas y propuestas para combatirla desde el derecho social europeo Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Luca Ratti, Antonio Garcia-Muñoz (2022) EU law, In-Work Poverty, and vulnerable workers European Law Open Crossref. (doi: 10.1017/elo.2022.41)
(2021) Acuerdos colectivos europeos. Comentario a la sentencia del TJUE C-928/19 P – EPSU/Comisión Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2021) Los límites de la igualdad de trato entre trabajadores temporales e indefinidos en el derecho de la Unión Europea. Comentario a la sentencia C-652/19 Consulmarketing del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2020) Covid-19 and labour law in Spain European Labour Law Journal Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra. ISSN 2399-5556 (doi: 10.1177/2031952520934576)
(2020) Un futuro sombrío para la negociación colectiva europea Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2019) The Matzak judgment of the CJEU: The concept of worker and the blurring frontiers of work and rest time European Labour Law Journal Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra. ISSN 2399-5556 (doi: 10.1177/2031952519886153)
(2019) El protocolo europeo para el progreso social Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2015) Acuerdos Marco Globales Multilaterales: una nueva expresion colectiva del derecho transnacional del trabajo Revista de Derecho Social Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2012) Dúctil en el interior, fuerte hacia el exterior. Un análisis de la naturaleza legal de los nuevos instrumentos de Derecho Laboral Internacional Temas Laborales Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2011) Soft on the inside, hard on the outside: an analysis of the legal nature of new forms of international international labour law The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Book Section
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra (2023) Conceptualisation: In-work poverty and its Determinants Working yet Poor. Challenges to EU Social Citizenship Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra (2023) Diálogo Social Europeo y negociación colectiva’ Derecho Social de la Unión Europea. Aplicación por el Tribunal de Justicia Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2022) In-work poverty in Luxembourg In-Work Poverty in Europe. Vulnerable and Under-represented Persons in a Comparative Perspective Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2021) Collective bargaining for self-employed workers in Spain Collective bargaining for self-employed workers in Europe Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2021) ‘European Sectoral Social Dialogue’ EU Collective Labour Law Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2019) Diálogo Social Europeo y negociación colectiva Derecho social de la Unión Europea. Aplicación por el Tribunal de Justicia Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2018) Reconocimiento mutuo, competencia entre regulaciones y dumping social en la Unión Europea El reconocimiento mutuo en el derecho español y europeo Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2017) Dismissal regulation in Spain after the crisis' reform The evolution of dismissal regulation. A comparison between Japan and Europe Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2016) Multilateral Framework Agreements: A milestone in Transnational Labour Law Tools? L'idea di diritto del lavoro. Oggi Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2015) Autorregulación y acciones colectivas en el derecho transnacional del trabajo Autorregulación y sanciones Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2015) Derecho del trabajo y ecología: repensar el trabajo para un cambio de modelo productivo y de civilización que tenga en cuenta la dimensión medioambiental La ecología del trabajo Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2013) Independent monitoring of private transnational regulation of labour standards: a proposal for a transnational labour inspectorate system The transnational dimension of labour relations. A new order in the making? Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Book Review
(2021) Book review of Shelley Marshall Living Wage: Regulatory Solutions to Informal and Precarious Work in Global Supply Chains (OUP, 2019) Australian Journal of Labour Law Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Edited Journal
(2021) In-work poverty in the EU (I) - Special Issue EU Law Live Weekend Edition Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
working-paper
(2020) The meaning of horizontal subsidiarity and the General Court's EPSU Judgment European Social Dialogue in the Court of Justice, An amicus curiae workshop on the EPSU case Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Other
(2019) Tavola rotonda: un confronto fra esperienze Europee Lavor e Diritto Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
(2017) Autonomy or subordination of Labour Law? The debate beyond national borders in 2015 Lavoro e Diritto Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Book
(2017) La negociación colectiva europea de sector Bomarzo Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra.
Grants
Visiting professor at the University of Torino Italy with a project on collective bargaining for self-employed workers in the EU in 2023 (funded position).
Supervision
Antonio is interested in supervising postgraduate research students in his areas of expertise.
Additional information
Antonio is member of the Spanish Association of Labour Law Scholars (AEDTSS)
He was involved in the drafting of the report for the proposal of a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on improving and enforcing working conditions of trainees and combating regular employment relationships disguised as traineeships (‘Traineeship Directive’), as stated in the declaration of input of the proposal.
Antonio has been invited to numerous international workshops and conferences. Recently he was invited to the Spanish-Italian Labour Law Conference in Vigo, Spain (September 2025) and the international workshop on the Law – Collective Bargaining Nexus held in Aix-en-Provence, France (October 2024).
He contributed to the MOOC course organised by ETUI on ‘Skills for Labour and Environmental Justice’ (2024)
He won the Marco Biaggi award 2011 (together with Attila Kun and Beryl ter Haar) for the best article written by young researchers for their work ‘Soft on the inside, hard on the outside: An analysis of New Forms of International Labour Law’ (2011) International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, volume 4, issue 27, 337-363.
