France heavily lobbied the European Commission over the rights of platform workers, favouring the position of platforms and raising more concerns of collusion between French decision makers and industry lobbyists, …
Gig Workers Are Losing Their Hard-Won Rights
A battle between unions and Just Eat France sets a troubling precedent for platform workers. IT WAS 2020 when, in a bold challenge to industry orthodoxy, one of the world’s biggest …
Deliveroo écope d’une grosse amende pour ne pas avoir salarié ses livreurs
Le tribunal judiciaire de Paris a infligé ce mardi 19 avril une amende de 375.000 euros, le maximum prévu, à Deliveroo France jugée pour “travail dissimulé”, lors d’un premier procès pénal en …
Deliveroo gets a big fine for not having paid its delivery people
Deliveroo France was tried for “concealed work”, during a first criminal trial in France of “uberization” with the issue of the true status of its deliverers. The Paris court on …
Total Uganda case: the French Supreme Court recognizes the jurisdiction of the civil court
Today, the Court of Cassation (French Supreme Court) issued its ruling on the case against the oil giant Total, led by six French and Ugandan civil society organizations (CSOs) – …
ETUI: Social Protection of Non-standard Workers & the Self-Employed during the Pandemic
“The Covid‑19 pandemic severely affected some categories of non-standard workers, and particularly the self‑employed. The emergency measures cushioned the potentially disastrous effect on their social circumstances, but undeniably highlighted even more the gaps in …
Uber ordered to pay taxi drivers damages in France
Uber France will have to pay €180,000 to 910 taxi drivers and their federation who brought a civil case against Uber for unfair competition, the court ruled. The case centred …
Ray-Ban maker Luxottica accused of anti-union behaviour at U.S. Georgia plant
U.S. and international unions have accused Ray-Ban maker Luxottica, the Italian arm of eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica (ESLX.PA), of violating workers’ right to unionise at a U.S. plant in Georgia and asked …
France investigates fashion brands over forced Uyghur labour claims
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four multinational fashion retailers on suspicion of concealing and profiting from crimes against humanity in China’s Xinjiang region by sourcing goods produced using forced Uyghur …
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