U.S. Supreme Court May Shield Companies From Human-Rights Lawsuits

The article draws conclusions from the more conservative Supreme Court justices’ lines of questioning in Jesner v. Arab Bank regarding the Alien Tort Statute. The case before the Court centered …

Ernest & Young Studies Race, Gender and Exclusion: The Top Takeaways

An 2017 Ernest & Young study with a sample size of more than 1,000 employed US Americans, 18 years of age and older. Three Key Findings: 32 % of men …

The Employment Status of Uber Drivers A Comparative Report Prepared For The Social Law Project, University Of The Western Cape

Oxford Pro Bono Publico University sponsored research project from 2017 highlighting the status of Uber drivers in a variety of jurisdictions with a comparison between drivers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, …

ADHIKARI v. KBR INC.

The plaintiffs in this case, five Nepali men, allege that they were promised work in Jordan but were instead trafficked to work for KBR, a U.S. defense contractor, on a …

US EEOC and Peru sign historic national collaboration and dissemination agreement to combat labor discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the United States of America and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru have signed a Memorandum of Understanding by which they commit to …

LABOR PLATFORMS AND GIG WORK: THE FAILURE TO REGULATE

Ruth Berins Collier, V.B. Dubal, and Christopher Carter. (2017). “Labor Platforms and Gig Work: The Failure to Regulate”. IRLE Working Paper No. 106-17. Since 2012, the platform economy has received …

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IS THE CALIFORNIA TRANSPARENCY IN SUPPLY CHAINS ACT DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD? (Jul. 25, 2017)

The post describes the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (CTSCA)–as procedural rather than substantive legislation–and points out its weaknesses with respect to corporate accountability. It posits further that the …

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OECD Case: Society for Threatened Peoples vs. Credit Suisse

NCPs involved: Switzerland NCP (lead), United States NCP COUNTRY OF OPERATIONS: United States DATE: 24 April 2017 STATUS: Pending ISSUES: The complaint alleges that Credit Suisse has breached both its …

U.S. Workers Need Not Apply: Challenging Low-Wage Guest Worker Programs

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2017  Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-44 The article argues that guestworker programs are harmful to all workers because …

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v. CITY OF SEATTLE

Complaint filed in federal district court seeking to overturn the Seattle Municipal Ordinance allowing drivers working in the for-hire transportation industry to elect a representative and to bargain over wages with …