Attorney General Becerra and City Attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco Sue Uber and Lyft Alleging Worker Misclassification

“SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the City Attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco today sued Uber and Lyft for misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors …

Nevsun Resources Ltd. V. Araya Requires Rethinking Alternate Frameworks for Accountability of TNC’s

The recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya, allowed for a claim to be filed against a Canadian company for human rights violations and breaches of …

Foodora Canada Saga Highlights the Failure of Canada’s Workplace Protection Regimes

“On April 27, 2020, food delivery service Foodora Canada announced that it would be leaving the Canadian market effective May 11. Days later details of its bankruptcy proceedings were reported in the media.  Foodora’s …

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Bus Drivers Need Better Protection

Bus drivers across the country are dying from COVID-19. We need to do more to protect them. On March 24, a Detroit bus driver posted a video complaining about a passenger who …

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Argentina: Medidas socioeconómicas ante la crisis provocada por el coronavirus

This resource discusses the socioeconomic measures taken in Argentina in relation to COVID-19 (Spanish only).  This report discusses the large number of workers, almost half, who are employed in the …

Colombia: COVID-19 Analysis

Here are three bulletins providing information on and analyzing the situation of COVID-19 in Colombia, all are in Spanish. Boletín No. 1 – Observatorio Laboral Plataforma Boletín No. 2 – …

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Brazilian Supreme Court cancels effects of two articles of Provisional Act 927/2020, about labor measures in the pandemic of COVID-19

One of the actions taken by the Brazilian government to try to lessen the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was the edition of Provisional Act (MP) 927, published on …

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What Is Not to Be Done

There are moments in history when the world teeters on a razor’s edge—where we can plausibly imagine a country and a world remade on the values of equality, justice, and …

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Fired in a Pandemic, ‘Because We Tried to Start a Union,’ Workers Say

Truck drivers and warehouse workers at Cort Furniture Rental in New Jersey had spent months trying to unionize in the hopes of securing higher wages and better benefits. By early …

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US: New Laws for the Fissured Workplace

“Late last month, Instacart workers went on strike to protest the company’s refusal to provide them with rudimentary personal protective equipment, such as hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. The CDC …