Why Uber and Lyft are taking a page out of big tobacco’s playbook in labor law battle

“Uber and Lyft are waging a scorched-earth regulatory battle to avoid providing basic benefits to their drivers, now considered essential workers, in their largest US market: California. In response to …

Capacity building for effective social dialogue in the European Union

“The main objective of this report is to feed into the discussion on how Eurofound can contribute to supporting capacity building of social partners for effective social dialogue. The specific …

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Farce majeure: How global apparel brands are using the COVID-19 pandemic to stiff suppliers and abandon workers

The ILAW Network, together with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and the Workers Rights Consortium, has issued a new policy paper which examines how brands have used …

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Disconnected: The COVID-19 pandemic & call centre workers‘ rights in Tunisia & Morocco

“The global spread of COVID-19 has prompted unprecedented measures to contain the virus, including the temporary shutdown of business and widespread restrictions on movement. Around the world, travel plans and …

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Extending social protection to informal workers in the COVID-19 crisis: country responses and policy considerations

“The COVID-19 crisis and its economic and social impacts are particularly harsh for workers in the informal economy and their families. Almost 1.6 billion informal workers are affected by the …

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Once working people mobilise, as they have done in Belarus, change is inevitable

“Workers in Belarus are demanding democracy. If President Aleksandr Lukashenko, often (rather optimistically) referred to by the media as ‘Europe’s last dictator’, ever had the real support of the people …

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State of New York et al v. Scalia

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York found that the US DOL’s new final rule on joint employer status violated the Administrative Procedures Act because it …

Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Is Sabotaging Its Own Mission

“On a June afternoon in 2019, in front of a statue of George Washington at Federal Hall in New York City’s financial district, more than 100 construction workers and activists …

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Global Supply Chains–Where Art Thou in the BHR Treaty?

Global supply chains affect every aspect of our lives. It is hard to overstate the impact of supply chains on the economy and people’s lives…. But there is not a …

The 2nd Revised Draft of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights–Moving (Slowly) in the Right Direction

A second revised Draft of an international treaty on business and human rights has been released by the Chairperson of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises with …