The European Union is in the process of developing new legislation to address the challenge of forced labour along global value chains by banning products made with forced labour from …
U.S. to restore Mauritania’s AGOA trade preferences after worker rights progress
Mauritania’s trade preference benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act will be reinstated on Jan. 1, 2024 after the northwest African country made “substantial and measurable progress on worker …
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
The previously undisclosed inquiry of Central Romana raises the prospect of criminal sanctions. The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. …
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel …
DHAN KUMAR LIMBU & 23 OTHERS and DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
The High Court agreed to stay the proceedings against two U.K. Dyson subsidies and to set aside an order serving Dyson Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd., the manufacturer’s Malaysian arm, into the English claim. …
Dyson Kicks Forced Labor Factory Claim Out Of UK
A London judge has prevented workers in Malaysia from continuing their High Court claim that accuses Brisitsh appliance maker Dyson from unjustly benefitting from forced labor, finding on Thursday that …
European Parliament committees approve draft regulation on forced labor
The Internal Market and International Trade Committees of the European Parliament have approved and amended a draft regulation against forced labor prepared by the European Commission. The proposal covers all products …
Qatar World Cup construction workers sue US firm for labor trafficking
Dozens of Filipino workers who helped build stadiums that hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming U.S. construction firm Jacobs Solutions Inc (J.N) subjected them …
We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers
Women seeking jobs as domestic workers in the UAE allege they are being detained and abused in squalid accommodation, while recruiters sell them over apps and social media platforms to …
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Dyson’s successful forum non conveniens challenge in Malaysian outsourcing claim: A sad illustration of the bar to #bizhumanrights claims in England and Wales post Brexit.
In Limbu & Ors v Dyson Technology Ltd & Ors [2023] EWHC 2592 (KB) a jurisdictional challenge on forum non conveniens grounds in allegations of forced labour at Dyson’s Malaysian Supplier, was successful. The …