Death to Scabby: Trump Labor Counsel Wants Protest Icon Deflated

Scabby the Rat stands 12 to 30 feet tall, teeth bared and claws raised aggressively, with hungry, bloodshot eyes. The giant rodent’s sickly-looking underbelly refers to the ‘scab’ pejorative sometimes …

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Will the Revolution Succeed Without the Protection of Labor Rights?

Ask anyone about their working conditions in Armenia and they will tell you their rights are not protected, even if they have minimal knowledge of those rights. Indeed, labor rights …

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Bangladesh EPZ Labour Act 2019

EPZ Labour Ordinance 2019 (1)

Forced To Work Without Pay: Do Federal Employees Have a Thirteenth Amendment Claim?

The federal government shutdown is precipitating a wave of lawsuits and talk of sick-outs and strikes. That should be no surprise when approximately 400,000 federal employees are being required to work without pay. Wait, “required.”?Talk of being “forced” or …

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Foodora, accolto in Appello a Torino il ricorso di 5 ex rider

La Corte d’Appello di Torino ha accolto, per una parte sostanziale, il ricorso di cinque ex rider di Foodora che chiedevano il riconoscimento della subordinazione del rapporto di lavoro. In primo …

İZBAN strike banned with Presidential Decree, signed by Erdoğan

The strike that İzmir Suburban Rail System (İZBAN) workers have kept up for one month to gain the same pay as other rail transport workers has been banned by President …

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Labour rights in Peru and the EU trade agreement: Compliance with the commitments under the sustainable development chapter

The authors discussed the EU-Peru-Colombia agreement and its impact in Peru’s agricultural sector. They also analyze the situation of labor rights in Peru and its legal framework. https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/145974

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Book review: “Labor reform in Brazil: promises and reality”

In Portuguese, “Reforma trabalhista no Brasil: promessas e realidade”. The book was published after two years of the labor reform in Brazil, legislation that represented a great deregulation of the …

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Italy: Il Centro Studi Diritti & Lavoro Monthly Newsletters 2019

The Il Centro Studi Diritti & Lavoro is a legal research initiative in Italy founded by Fabio Rusconi and Andrea Danilo Conte. This is the compilation of the Italian language monthly newsletters from …

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BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES OF CALIFORNIA, INC. v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

The D.C. Circuit Court upheld (2-1) the NLRB’s 2015 decision in which it articulated a joint-employer standard which considered not only direct control over the employees’ terms and conditions of …

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