Driven Down: How Workplace Technology Enables Amazon to Steal Wages, Hide Labor, Intensify Poor Working Conditions, and Evade Responsibility

“Amazon delivery drivers, alongside warehouse workers and other people in the Amazon delivery supply chain, are subject to intense amounts of surveillance. Amazon has multiple avenues for surveilling its delivery …

Nigeria: Jagun v. Airtel Networks Ltd.

Full Judgment of the Nigerian Industrial Court finding in favor the Mr. Jagun for unfair dismissal and discrimination based on his use of a wheelchair.    

The ‘Coldplay Incident’: Work and Private Life

Last summer, a woman and a man were embracing blissfully at a Coldplay concert when they were caught by a ‘kiss cam’, a camera that is used in concerts to …

Discrimination law, Section 3 Human Rights Act, and the Higgs Poser

Both human rights law and discrimination law share a concern to ensure respect for the dignity and autonomy of individuals.  Yet they pursue those shared values on parallel tracks through …

Anti-Trafficking Review: Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet

“This Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review explores the impacts of the climate crisis on migration, precarious labour, and human trafficking. Contributions from across Asia, Africa, and the Americas illustrate how slow- …

SECTION 301 INVESTIGATION REPORT ON NICARAGUA’S ACTS, POLICIES, AND PRACTICES RELATED TO LABOR RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, AND THE RULE OF LAW

As set out in this Report, the Ortega-Murillo regime is engaged in unreasonable acts, policies, and practices that burden and restrict commercial opportunities for U.S. companies in Nicaragua. Nicaragua engages …

The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts

“Across the country, employers are increasingly using AI and other digital technologies in ways that stand to have profound consequences for wages, working conditions, employment, race and gender equity, and …

How platformisation is shaping the future of domestic work

A mapping of home care and cleaning platforms in six EU countries “One aspect of demographic ageing is the growing demand for domestic and care services. This highlights the increasingly …

Addressing work-related gender-based violence and harassment

Insights from the EU Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence “European Union Directive 2024/1385 on combating violence against women and domestic violence (Anti-VAW Directive) marks a historic …

The “Privacy” Trap How “Privacy-Preserving AI Techniques” Mask the New Worker Surveillance and Datafication

“In response to widespread concerns about data tracking and the collection of personal information, corporations are deploying a new brand of technologies, including forms of artificial intelligence, that claim to …