This factsheet provides brief summaries of cases and decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights on worker-related rights issues.
Nigeria: TOAN v. Registered Trustees of Tricycles Owners
Please find the decision from the National Industrial Court (Lagos): TOAN V REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF TRICYCLES OWNERS This decision recognizes that under Nigerian law, organisations registered as Incorporrated Trusteeship under …
COVID-19 – time for governments, brands and employers to protect supply chain and precarious workers from hardship and infection
As the economic and human rights impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak come into view, we are again seeing supply chain and frontline workers, alongside those in precarious and informal jobs, …
Ukraine’s Cabinet withdraws draft of Labor Code
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine withdrew the draft law No. 2708 on labor, which was planned to introduce a new Labor Code in action. This is stated in the card …
The Case for Universal Labor and Employment Rights
Working people in the United States are fragmented by race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and status. We are also stratified by the law itself—specifically the extent to which we are entitled …
At AFL-CIO, Senator Menendez Releases Report Assessing Labor Rights and Safety in Bangladesh’s Garment Factories
WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released a new Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic Staff report investigating the treatment of garment workers, labor rights, and factory safety …
‘A worker is a worker’: the trade unions organising migrants across Europe
A conviction that lies at the very heart of international trade unionism is that a worker is a worker, wherever he or she is from. But how can unions put …
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Free Speech and Strike Action
Two UK law professors, Alan Bogg and Virginia Mantouvalou, published an article in the UK Labour Law Blog discussing how the exercise of the right to strike is fundamentally an …