India: Informal workers’ rights with respect to the payment of minimum wages (Code of Wages, 2019)

In August 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the Code on Wages, 2019 (“Wages Code”).  The Wages Code, along with codes on social security, industrial safety and welfare, and industrial relations …

HOT GOODS PART I: ROOTING OUT FORCED LABOR IN SUPPLY CHAINS USING THE “HOT GOODS” PROVISIONS OF THE FLSA

“In June of 2019, the owner of a Utah pecan farm was ordered to pay $1 million in back wages to victims of exploitative child labor in violation of the …

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India And The Gig Economy

This article analyses in detail the legal implications faced by the Gig Economy by first addressing the nature of the term ‘gig economy’, the implications of it in the economy. …

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Gender Bias and the Sex Trafficking Interventions in the Eastern Border of India–Nepal

This paper explores the reasons that force migration of women and children across borders, especially in the eastern border India-Nepal. The paper details the international definitions and laws around human …

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GARMENT SUPPLY CHAINS SINCE RANA PLAZA: Governance & Worker Outcomes

The April 2013 Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,000 garment workers and injured many more, shocked the world. Since then, lead firms, supplier factories, governments and multiple …

Rethinking the Competition Law/Labour Law Interaction

The spread of non-standard forms of work, including platform work, has created some friction between labour law and competition law, in particular concerning the collective bargaining of self-employed workers. This …

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Counterfeit Liberty

Unlike some countries with stronger labor movements, labor law plays an outsized role in the regulation of labor relations in the United States. This legalistic regime tends to substitute state …

All Roads Lead to Rome: Strengthening Domestic Prosecutions of Businesses through the Inclusion of Corporate Liability in the Rome Statute

“Although “business” might not be the first word that springs to mind when thinking of widespread atrocities committed in conflict and post-conflict situations, the involvement of corporate actors in such …

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The Price You Pay: How Purchasing Practices Harm Turkey’s Garment Workers

Exploitation and abuse of Syrian refugees who make ‘fast fashion’ for the high streets of Paris, London and Berlin continues, despite three years of revelations. This report explains the root …

The Firm Exemption and the Hierarchy of Finance in the Gig Economy

Worker-owned or controlled firms face a little-studied threat from antitrust law that typifies much broader problems with the current antitrust paradigm, namely that it favors coordination through concentrated ownership and …