Are there workers’ environmental rights in EU law?

Over recent decades, we have seen an increase in academic exploration of the interactions between workers and the environment, including the emergence of new fields such as environmental labour studies. Labour lawyers have …

Wisconsin ruling that Amazon drivers are employees stands, state’s high court unanimously decides

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online …

Subway faces $50M suit for sexual abuse at franchisee

A former employee of Subway franchisee GRB Investments is suing the operator and the brand for $50 million in damages after she was repeatedly drugged and raped by her supervisor, according to a …

UFC to pay $335 mln to settle fighters’ wage-fixing claims

Ultimate Fighting Championship said on Wednesday that it has agreed to pay $335 million to settle class action lawsuits claiming it artificially suppressed wages of martial arts fighters and owed …

EU Policy. Governments support stripped-down corporate due diligence law

After weeks of uncertainty, new EU rules on sustainable supply chains seem likely to pass into law. EU member states on Friday (15 March) have voted in favour of a …

At long last, EU countries adopt the platform work directive

EU countries finally adopted the platform work directive at a meeting of the bloc’s labour ministers on Monday (11 March), after Estonia and Greece, which had abstained in the past, …

EU Advances Watered-Down Labor Plan for Uber, Deliveroo Workers

European Union countries reached a breakthrough Monday on planned rules over workers’ rights in the gig economy, after EU member states reached the necessary majority to move ahead with the …

Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking to cripple the country’s top labor watchdog, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), …

Labor Board’s Joint Employer Rule Struck Down in Texas Court

A federal judge in Texas struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s rule broadening the legal test for determining when multiple companies jointly employ workers and thus share liability and …

In last-minute upset, France pitches new changes to gig work file

As EU ambassadors were due to meet on Friday (8 March) to try to agree again a provisional deal on the platform work directive, France circulated a set of changes …

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