Despite decades of undercover investigations into and analysis of the UK’s textile industry, and parliamentary reports on human rights abuses and sustainability, the latest evidence of factories in Leicester that may have been paying workers well below the …
Below are briefs of the Petitioners before the US Supreme Court concerning a putative class action under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, claiming that Nestle and …
Despite the lifting of lockdown restrictions in the United Kingdom, Rosa* still barely leaves her friend’s house, where she has been staying since March. “It’s very difficult. If another wave [comes], …
A group of Uber drivers from the UK are to take international legal action demanding access to their data held by the ride-hailing company. The group of UK Uber drivers …
A widow whose husband fell eight storeys to his death while breaking up a supertanker in Bangladesh can pursue a negligence claim against Maran (UK), a British company involved in the ship’s …
The High Court has granted permission to the IWGB to proceed with a judicial review that could extend health and safety rights to hundreds of thousands of so-called ‘gig economy’ …
Uber v Heller and the Prospects for a Transnational Judicial Dialogue on the Gig Economy – II
“In the coming days, labour lawyers from around the world will be tuning in to watch the arguments in Uber v Aslam. In terms of the wider ramifications of the reasoning …