“Farmers Have No Freedom” Abuse and Exploitation of Cotton and Wheat Farmers in Uzbekistan

In recent years, the Uzbekistan government ended state-imposed forced labor in the cotton harvest and committed to undertake reforms of the agricultural sector more broadly. The government has adopted a …

When Workers Pierce the Corporate Veil: Brazil’s Forgotten Innovation

Ask any corporate law scholar about the origins of corporate group law, and you’ll likely hear about Germany. The German Konzernrecht, codified in 1965, is celebrated as the pioneering framework for …

Platform work is dangerous: Addressing Occupational Safety & Health risks in the platform economy

“Platform work has become a defining feature of Europe’s labour market. From food delivery and transport to care work and digital tasks performed behind a screen, millions of workers now …

Deregulating Workers’ Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis

Europe’s industrial base is under enormous strain. From chemicals to metals to automotive components, companies are scaling back production or shutting down entirely as they grapple with the same structural …

The Taliban’s New Criminal Regulation Legalizes Slavery, Violence, and Repression of Women

On January 7, 2026, the Taliban’s emir issued a two-point decree formally endorsing a new Criminal Procedural Regulations for Courts (119 articles, 3 chapters, 10 sections) and announcing that it would take effect …

New Book: Monitored at Work

“Monitored at Work is a legal study, beyond the traditional privacy paradigm, that explores the historical and conceptual foundations of the employer’s monitoring power, tracing its evolution from the Industrial …

Applying human rights due diligence in the workplace to achieve a Just Transition: a trade union guide

This ITUC guide supports trade unions in promoting Just Transition by applying Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) in the workplace and across supply chains. It equips unions with tools to …

EU Guidelines to Transpose EU Platform Work Directive

The European Commission has published its guidelines for member-states when transposing the EU Platform Work Directive. The guidelines are the product of an expert working group made up of member-state …

Initial assessment: a complaint about McDonald’s Restaurants Limited by a group of trade unions and a Civil Society Organisation

The complaint has been brought to the UK National Contact Point (NCP) against ‘McDonald’s UK’ (a division of the United States-based multinational enterprise McDonald’s Corporation) in relation to alleged ongoing …

Building Worker Power in a Precarious Federal Landscape: Sectoral Strategies and Worker Democracy

This post launches a new series exploring how states and cities can expand worker power in the United States. The series is grounded in a set of working papers and …