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Indian government seeks to introduce ‘business friendly’ labor law reforms

This article analyses the  introduction of two new labor code bills in the House of Parliament in India, the Code on Wages and the Code on Occupational Safety, Health and …

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Human Trafficking at Home: LABOR TRAFFICKING OF DOMESTIC WORKERS

This report, a joint project of Polaris and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), is an attempt to put legal and societal recommendations forward by compiling and sharing qualitative and …

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Cambodia: Fundamental Freedoms Monitor, Third Annual Report

The Fundamental Freedoms Monitoring Project (FFMP) examines the state of the freedoms of association, expression and assembly in the Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia). Utilizing a range of monitoring tools, the …

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Woman and Child Trafficking in India: A Criminal Nursery

This paper summarizes the legal provisions that prevent human trafficking in India, with a comparative lens on international laws. The paper also discusses the barriers to the implementation of anti-trafficking …

Time to Act for SDG 8: Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity

“What progress has been made towards SDG 8? Despite isolated pockets of achievement, progress towards SDG 8 is slowing down in many areas of the world. An urgent acceleration of …

Oregon: HB 2005 – Paid Family Leave

The law will come into effect January 2023. “(1) Employees experience a variety of caregiving obligations that interfere with work time. (2) It is in the public interest to create …

South Korea: Law Banning Workplace Bullying Enforced, But It Needs to Be More Effective (Editorial)

The revised Labor Standards Act, which bans bullying in the workplace, will be enforced on July 16. The amendment defines and prohibits actions that force physical and mental suffering beyond …

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Fighting Wage Preemption: How Workers Have Lost Billions in Wages and How We Can Restore Local Democracy

“Local governments, like cities and counties, have long implemented local policies—including higher minimum wages—to improve economic conditions. Local efforts to raise the wage floor have seen a tremendous upsurge over …

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Empty Promises: The Failure of Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives to Improve Farmer Incomes in the Ivorian Cocoa Sector

Between October 2018 and March 2019, Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) staff interviewed farmers, tribal leaders in cocoa-growing villages, cocoa cooperatives and local and international NGOs to assess the impact of …

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Labour reforms: No one knows the size of India’s informal workforce, not even the govt

The article deals with possible challenges that can be faced in legislating laws with regard to informal workers or unorganised sector workers. While the article deals with the economic statistics …