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COVID-19
This is the ILAW Network’s COVID-19 resource page. We will try to keep this as up to date as possible. We have also set up an ILAW Network COVID-19 discussion group (members only).
Click here to chronologically view all the COVID-19 News & Resources on the ILAW Network website.
Scroll down to view those resources sorted by category (Global, Regional, Thematic and Country Specific):
Global
- ABA: Multi-Country Snapshot of COVID-19 Related Legal Changes
- ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey: Half of countries in lockdown as COVID-19 pandemic wreaks health and economic havoc on working people and their families
- State of emergency: how different countries are invoking extra powers to stop the coronavirus
- ILO ACTRAV Analysis: Governments’Responses to COVID-19
- COVID19 and the Corporate Duty to Respect Human Rights: It’s time for the business community to step up
- UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Statement on COVID-19
- Shaping a new social contract through the pandemic
- Businesses all over the world are learning that “force majeure” is no get-out-of-jail-free card
- Covid-19 and Labour Law. A Global Review
- RESPECTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TIME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- COVID19 and the Corporate Duty to Respect Human Rights: It’s time for the business community to step up
- ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey 20 April – 23 April 2020 Key Findings
- ILO Monitor 2nd edition: COVID-19 and the world of work Updated estimates and analysis
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. (Third edition)
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. Third edition Updated estimates and analysis
- “Every worker is essential and must be protected from COVID-19, no matter what” – UN rights experts
- ILO Guidance: A safe and healthy return to work during the COVID-19 pandemic
- ILO: Safe Return to Work – Ten Action Points
- Positive Government Responses to COVID-19
- UN WOMEN’S RESPONSE TO COVID-19
- ITUC Global Covid-19 Survey: Support for government action falls as global jobs crisis takes hold
- Les usines asiatiques de Primark, Mango et Zara licencient-elles leurs employés syndiqués ?
- Challenges in Implementation of Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 due to COVID-19 and plea of force majeure
- Seafarers Trapped Serving Global Supply Chains amounts to Egregious Abuse of Human Rights: States Must Fulfill their Duty to Protect
- New international commitment to improve seafarers’ rights
- Fighting climate change and labour rights abuses ‘two sides of the same coin’ for Sharan Burrow
- YOUTH &COVID-19: IMPACTS ON JOBS, EDUCATION, RIGHTS AND MENTAL WELL-BEING
- A Practical Guide to Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
- Living Like People Who Die Slowly: The Need for Right to Health Compliant COVID-19 Responses
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work
- ITUC Legal Guide – Telework
- ILO: Resolution concerning maritime labour issues and the COVID-19 pandemic
- General observation on matters arising from the application of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006) during the COVID-19 pandemic
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. Seventh edition Updated estimates and analysis
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Workers in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia
- MARITIME HUMAN RIGHTS RISKS AND THE COVID-19 CREW CHANGE CRISIS A TOOL TO SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE
- Despite the efforts of trade unions and NGOs, seafarer abandonment is on the rise
- Civil Courts Coping with Covid-19
- International Journal of Labour Research: COVID-19 and Recovery: The Role of Trade Unions in Building Forward Better
- Lessons for the Post-COVID World of Work: Universal social protection as a driver for an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable recovery
- COVID-19: ILO Monitor – 8th edition ‘Employment impact from the pandemic worse than expected’
- DOMESTIC WORK IS WORK: Using ILO Convention 189 to Protect Workers’ Rights Across the Commonwealth
Thematic
Supply Chains
- Moral bankruptcy during times of crisis: H&M just thought twice before triggering force majeure clauses with suppliers, and here’s why you should too
- Who Will Bail Out the Workers that Make Our Clothes?
- Abandoned? The Impact of Covid-19 on Workers and Businesses at the Boom of Global Garment Supply Chains
- Primark announces wage fund for garment workers
- Garment supply chains in intensive care? Human rights due diligence in times of (economic) crises
- Covid-19 Tracker: Which Brands Are Acting Responsibly toward Suppliers and Workers?
- Responsible disengagement in the time of corona
- Can fast fashion’s $2.5tn supply chain be stitched back together?
- Will global corporations take responsibility for those they have long exploited?
- BHRRC: COVID-19 Action Tracker
- What are the avenues for corporate liability for COVID-19-related human rights abuses?
- Farce majeure: How global apparel brands are using the COVID-19 pandemic to stiff suppliers and abandon workers
- Leveraging Desperation: Apparel Brands’ Purchasing Practices during Covid-19
- Fashion companies want cheaper goods—and it’s garment workers who are paying
- Wage theft and pandemic profits: The right to a living wage for garment workers
- Garment Workers Win Historic Victory in Effort to Transform Fashion Industry
- FIRED, THEN ROBBED Fashion brands’ complicity in wage theft during Covid-19
- Money Heist: COVID-19 Wage Theft in Global Garment Supply Chains
- Repeat, Regain or Renegotiate? The Post-COVID Future of the Apparel Industry
OSH
- Putting people first 12 governments show the world how to protect lives, jobs and incomes
- A New Social Contract can rebuild our workplaces and economies after COVID-19
- COVID-19 and world of work: Impacts and responses
- COVID-19 – time for governments, brands and employers to protect supply chain and precarious workers from hardship and infection
- ILO: State practice to address COVID-19 infection as a work-related injury
- Thousands of OSHA complaints filed against companies for virus workplace safety concerns, records show
- Amazon France Logistique SAS v Union syndicale Solidaires
- RCWA & JANE DOE V. SMITHFIELD
- Council of Global Unions Statement on Recognition of COVID-19 as an Occupational Disease
- How French Workers Took on Amazon in the Middle of a Pandemic and Won
- Shelter From the Storm
- RCWA v Smithfield Foods (ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS)
- AFL-CIO sues feds over coronavirus workplace safety
- AFL-CIO v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor
- McDonald’s Workers Sue Claiming Virus Measures Falling Short
- South Korea: Virus infection recognized as occupational accident
- Ukraine: COVID-19 is an ‘Occupational Disease’
- Renault Sandouville : la justice donne raison à la CGT, la santé et la vie ne se négocient pas
- France: Renault Sandouville Decision
- COVID-19 classified as occupational accident in Italy
- Appeals court rejects AFL-CIO lawsuit over lack of COVID-19 labor protections
- US: How and Why to Empower Workers in the COVID-19 Response
- US: Norwood v. Rodi Marine (COVID-19 negligence case)
- US: Unfair Choices: Can Workers Refuse to Return If Their Workplaces Are Unsafe?
- Meat plant must be held to account for Covid-19 outbreak, says German minister
- Tackling the Covid-19 pandemic at the workplace
- LOCAL JOINT EXECUTIVE BOARD OF LAS VEGAS v. HARRAH’S LAS VEGAS LLC; THE SIGNATURE CONDOMINIUMS LLC; BELLAGIO LLC,
- Brazil Medics Urge ICC To Probe Bolsonaro Virus ‘Crimes’
- COVID-19: ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS ON SOUTH AFRICAN EMPLOYERS IN TERMS OF THE REVISED OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY DIRECTION
- Amazon Ring call center workers in Philippines ‘scared’ to go to work during pandemic
- Malaysia to charge Top Glove over poor worker accommodation, government says
- Why it’s time to blow the whistle on Amazon
- R (IWGB) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions et al
- During a pandemic, democracy at work is even more important than ever
- New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19
- WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE: Food Workers Organizing on the COVID Frontlines
- HesaMag: Special Edition – Occupational health in the courts
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Workers in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia
- US: Republican politicians: Let OSHA do its job
- British Columbia: Uber drivers say they were fired for refusing unsafe work, file labour complaint
- Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Virus Mandate for Large Employers
Employment Relationship
- Pandemic is time to recognise gig workers’ rights
- Covid-19 crisis makes clear a new concept of ‘worker’ is overdue
- US: New Laws for the Fissured Workplace
- RAPPI WILL HAVE TO PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM THE CORONAVIRUS FOR ITS COURIERS
- Around the world, platform food couriers are mobilising for basic workers’ rights
- Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic
- British Columbia: Uber drivers say they were fired for refusing unsafe work, file labour complaint
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
- INSIGHT: There is No Social Distance in Supply Chains Tainted by Forced Labor
- Leaving no-one behind
- The Hidden Victims Of Covid19: Human Trafficking And Modern Day Slavery
- Responding to Forced Labour in the US Healthcare System
- As the Global Economy Melts Down, Human Trafficking Is Booming
Trade Union Rights
- “States responses to Covid 19 threat should not halt freedoms of assembly and association” – UN expert on the rights to freedoms of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr. Clément Voule
- Will fundamental workers’ rights also fall victim to COVID-19?
- Fired in a Pandemic, ‘Because We Tried to Start a Union,’ Workers Say
- What Is Not to Be Done
- Union Garment Workers Fear ‘An Opportunity to Get Rid of Us’
- One Way To Protect Workers In A Pandemic: Make It Harder To Fire Them
- Is COVID-19 a smokescreen for labour abuses?
- Suspension of Labour Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Possible Implications under the Revised Draft
- Union busting & unfair dismissals: Garment workers during COVID-19
Migrant Workers Rights
- PRINCIPLES OF PROTECTION FOR MIGRANTS REFUGEES AND OTHER DISPLACED PERSONS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- ‘Inaction Towards Protection Of Migrant Workers Affected SC’s Reputation’: Plea In SC Seeks Directions To Protect & Safeguard Migrants
- SC asks govt to bring back migrant Nepalis stranded in foreign lands
- Joint Guidance Note on the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Human Rights of Migrants
- Unofficial Translation of PIL Submission in Nepal: Repatriation and reintegration of migrant workers from destination countries
- Rights Of Repatriated Indian Workers: Kerala HC Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Effective Mechanism To Address Claims & Grievances
- The Compounding Impacts of COVID-19 on Migrant Workers in South East Asia
- Set up a mechanism for ensuring migrant workers wages, labour rights activists say
- Guidance for employers and business to enhance migrant worker protection during the current health crisis
- Losing More Than Their Health – COVID-19 and Migrant Worker Wage Theft
- South Asian migrant workers seek justice as wage theft worsens under coronavirus
- Migrant Workers Stranded in Russia Flocking to Border
- COVID-19 AND WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS: Impacts and implications
- The Cost of Contagion: The consequences of COVID-19 for migrant workers in the Gulf
- The other pandemic for migrant workers: wage theft
Gender-Based Violence and Harassment
- ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190): 12 ways it can support the COVID-19 response and recovery
- Advancing Gender Justice on Asian Fast Fashion Supply Chains Post COVID-19- Guidance from ILO’s Convention 190 on its First Anniversary
- Made for this Moment: How ILO Convention 190 Addresses Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in the World of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
- Why women’s right to health and gender equality should be your business
Informal Economy
- COVID-19 crisis and the informal economy: Immediate responses and policy challenges
- Informal work during the pandemic: when essential activities are the most precarious
- COVID-19 AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: Impact and Response Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa
- The View from the Ground: How the Sudden Lockdown in Delhi Continues to Affect Informal Workers
- Extending social protection to informal workers in the COVID-19 crisis: country responses and policy considerations
- Who gets reformed, capital or labour? The challenges to Indian labour during the pandemic and times ahead
Discrimination
- BLACK WORKERS SEE HIGHER RATES OF EMPLOYER RETALIATION FOR RAISING COVID SAFETY CONCERNS
- Dalit communities suffered financial hardship, job loss, discrimination during Covid-19 pandemic
- Why women’s right to health and gender equality should be your business
Regional
Americas
- Desafíos de la Covid-19 en América Latina: la región más desigual del mundo”
- Petition filed at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by Brazilian unions
- Hungry for rights: Delivery workers in Latin America during COVID-19
- Serie “Teletrabajo”. Quinta norma de teletrabajo en Latinoamérica: Panamá, 2020
- Serie “Teletrabajo”. Cuarta norma de teletrabajo en Latinoamérica: Costa Rica, 2019
- Serie “Teletrabajo”. Segunda norma de teletrabajo en Latinoamérica: Perú, 2013
- Serie “Teletrabajo”. Tercera norma de teletrabajo en Latinoamérica: Brasil, 2017
- La Comisión del Trabajo aprobó por unanimidad dictamen a minuta sobre teletrabajo
Europe
- ETUC Briefing Note: THE SITUATION FOR FRONTIER WORKERS
- ETUC Briefing Note: SICK PAY AND SOCIAL PROTECTION
- ETUC Briefing Note: Short Time Work Measures Across Europe
- ETUC Briefing Note: National measures to protect non-standard workers including workers in the platform economy
- ETUC Briefing Note: National measures to protect self-employed workers
- ETUC Briefing Note: National measures to support households by providing different (tax) relief measures
- ETUC Briefing Note: National measures to avoid collective/individual lay-offs (incl. granting (additional/special) leaves)
- ETUI: Monitoring social and employment consequences of the COVID-19 in the EU-28
- Short Time Work Measures Across Europe (COVID-19)
- ETUC Briefing Note: Human Rights & COVID-19
- ETUC Briefing: COVID-19 Occupational Health and Safety
- ETUC Briefing Note: COVID-19 & Trade Union Rights
- Calls for EU laws to end poor purchasing practices
- Something for Europeans to celebrate – a new social contract begins to emerge?
- ETUC Briefing Note: RETURN TO THE WORKPLACE MEASURES AND THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW LABOUR
- The Right to Privacy, Surveillance-by-Software and the “Home-Workplace”
- Union lauds ‘amazing victory’ after Arcadia redundancy payment apology
- ‘Right to disconnect’ should be an EU-wide fundamental right, MEPs say
- Non-standard workers and the self-employed in the EU
- ETUC Briefing Note: Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Schemes
- ETUI: Social Protection of Non-standard Workers & the Self-Employed during the Pandemic
Middle East and North Africa
- Migrant workers face racism and rampant human rights violations across the Gulf
- Disconnected: The COVID-19 pandemic & call centre workers‘ rights in Tunisia & Morocco
- COVID-19 and the Intensification of the GCC Workforce Nationalization Policies
- The Cost of Contagion: The consequences of COVID-19 for migrant workers in the Gulf
Sub-Saharan Africa
- The implications of Covid-19 on workers rights: A regional overview
- AU COVID-19 AT WORKPLACE JOINT COMMUNIQUE
- COMMUNIQUE CONJOINT UA COVID-19 EN MILEU DU TRAVAIL
- COMMON MARKETS FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA-COVID-19 MEASURES IN MEMBER STATES
- COVID-19 AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: Impact and Response Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asia
Country Specific
Albania
Argentina
- Argentina: Medidas socioeconómicas ante la crisis provocada por el coronavirus
- Argentina: La Cámara de Apelaciones avala despido de trabajador en periodo de prueba
- Decreto Nacional 329 de 2020, en Argentina, prohibió despidos y suspensiones laborales durante la emergencia
- Argentina aprueba nueva Ley de Teletrabajo
Austria
Australia
- Australia: Can employees use paid sick leave entitlements while stood down for COVID-19?
- COVID-19 employment Issues – a ready reckoner for Australian workers
- Australia: Workers’ Rights, Tools & Resources for dealing with COVID-19
- Coronavirus and directing employees to work from home: examining an employer’s duty of care
- What Now for Wage Theft? Enforcement of Employment Rights and Entitlements in a Time of Crisis
- What do we know about the extent of stand downs, their legal basis, and challenging unlawful stand downs?
- Age discrimination in a pandemic: COVID-19 and inequality at work
- ‘The Spirit of Australia’, just not in a pandemic: Qantas plays hard-ball on workers’ rights
- Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia & Ors v Qantas Airways Limited
- Protection of temporary migrants is now a ‘public health issue’
- Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020
Argentina
Bangladesh
- Western fashion brands that ‘exploit’ Bangladesh suppliers face blacklisting
- Force majeure: Apparel buyers’ deadly weapon
- After Tazreen Fashions and Rana Plaza, Covid-19 once again exposes the human cost of fast fashion
Belgium
Brazil
- MP 927 é ‘desumana’, aponta desembargador Souto Maior
- MEDIDA PROVISÓRIA Nº 927, DE 22 DE MARÇO DE 2020
- For the Brazilian people, Bolsonaro is as dangerous as COVID-19
- Justiça cearense determina que Uber e 99 paguem salários a motoristas ativos durante a pandemia de coronavírus
- Class Action Lawsuit filed by SECOR v. VILLAGE MATERIAIS DE ACABAMENTO LTDA
- Class Action Lawsuit filed by SINERGIA v. COMPANY OF GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION OF SOUTHERN ELECTRIC ENERGY DO BRASIL – ELETROBRAS CGT ELETROSUL,
- Class Action Lawsuit filed by SINTRATEL v. MEIRELS, FREITAS AND ALMEIDA TELEATENDING SERVICES LTDA
- SECOR v. BARKEV MATERIAIS PARA CONSTRUÇÕES LTDA
- Class Action Suit Filed by SENGE/PR et al. v. COMPANHIA PARANAENSE DE ENERGIA S.A
- Class Action Lawsuit filed by STIEEC & SINDLUZ v. ESS – ENERGISA SUL-SUDESTE – DISTRIBUIDORA DE ENERGIA S.A.
- SINDICATO NACIONAL DOS TRABALHADORES NA INDUSTRIA MOEDEIRA v. CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL – CMB
- Petition filed at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by Brazilian unions
- Brazil Medics Urge ICC To Probe Bolsonaro Virus ‘Crimes’
- Juíza exige volta de teletrabalho na Eletrosul, da Eletrobras, por riscos com Covid (Judge demands return of telework at Eletrobras’s Eletrosul, due to risks with Covid)
Burma
Cambodia
- Cambodia: State of Emergency bill violates the rule of law
- Cambodia: Garment factories accused of union busting under cover of Covid-19
- Cambodia garment factories call for wage cuts as pandemic bites
Canada
- What Recent Strikes in U.S. at Whole Foods, Amazon Disclose About Canadian Labour Law
- Will Migrant Workers Be Covered by the Canada Emergency Response Benefit?
- The Right to Refuse in a COVID-19 World
- Do I have to work during the coronavirus outbreak? A labour relations expert weighs in
- Canada: COVID-19 Legal Resource Page
Chile
Colombia
- Colombia: COVID-19 Analysis
- Colombia: COVID-19 Additional Bulletins
- Ley 2088 de Trabajo en casa, deficiencias y retrocesos laborales para los trabajadores colombianos
- Informe “Acceso a la justicia laboral durante la pandemia” en Colombia
Denmark
France
- Amazon France et Coronavirus : la restriction de ne livrer que des produits essentiels est confirmée en appel
- French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries amid coronavirus risk
- Amazon France Logistique SAS v Union syndicale Solidaires
- How French Workers Took on Amazon in the Middle of a Pandemic and Won
- Amazon : les syndicats proposent une reprise progressive d’activité
- Amazon to Contest COVID-19 Ruling in France’s Highest Court
- Amazon Reaches Deal With French Unions in Coronavirus Safety Dispute
- Renault Sandouville : la justice donne raison à la CGT, la santé et la vie ne se négocient pas
- France: Renault Sandouville Decision
Germany
India
- India: Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers’ Rights for Three Years
- Six states extend working shifts for labourers to 72-hour per week post-lockdown
- India: “Govt has not taken any steps for workforce instead put the burden on employers to pay full wages” Petition in SC to set aside MHA Order
- Ludhiana Hand Tools Association vs Union of India & Ors.
- Modi’s asked Indian firms to ‘be kind’ amid lockdown but many workers have not been paid their wages
- Mindless relaxation of labour laws will only hurt India’s lockdown-hit economy more
- India: Trade unions to move ILO against dilution of labour laws by BJP-ruled states
- U.N. Labour Agency Warns Indian States on Scrapping of Workers’ Rights
- Impact of the Global Pandemic on Indian Labor Laws
- Labour Without Welfare Measures Constitutes ‘Forced Labour’ Under Article 23 Of Constitution : Plea In SC Against Dilution Of Labour Laws [Read Petition]
- Nandini Praveen v. Union of India.
- ‘Inaction Towards Protection Of Migrant Workers Affected SC’s Reputation’: Plea In SC Seeks Directions To Protect & Safeguard Migrants
- India: States’ labour law changes under central govt scanner
- Send migrant workers home in 15 days: India’s top court to states
- Human Rights Violations of Migrant Workers in India During Covid- 19 Pandemic
- The Pandemic Revealed India’s Invisible Workforce
- Migrant workers in India: The pandemic pressure
- India: Factory Workers Can Now Legally Be Asked to Work 12- Hour Shifts. How Will this Change Things?
- COVID-19 Lockdown: India Needs Laws to Protect Domestic Workers
- Lockdown Woes: The Dismal State of Domestic Workers in India
- India: Walking a tightrope between employers and employees amid COVID-19 pandemic
- India: Karnataka Labor Department Notification Regarding Employees Infected with Coronavirus
- India: State regulations notified under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1857.
- India: Statewide updates following Government’s review of the COVID-19 outbreak on March 22, 2020
- India: Items and norms of assistance under State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
- India: MHA Order restricting movement of migrants and strict enforcement of lockdown measures
- India: Extension of Lockdown in various states
- India: Consolidated Revised Guidelines regarding nationwide lockdown
- India: Order from Ministry of Home Affairs on movement of migrant workers
- India: By elevating labour rights to human rights, the SC opens a door
- Who gets reformed, capital or labour? The challenges to Indian labour during the pandemic and times ahead
- India: Covid-19, the Executive, and the Judiciary
Israel
Italy
- Italian measures to face the COVID-19 pandemic
- Italy: Tribunal in Florence Found that Just Eat must provide PPE for its Riders
- Italy: Right to Strike restriction during COVID-19 pandemic
- Italy to give 600,000 migrants the right to stay
- COVID-19 classified as occupational accident in Italy
Jordan
Kenya
- Kenya: UoN proposes law change to keep employees from layoffs
- Kenya: Ministry of Labour & Social Protection – Labour Sector Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
- Kenya: Protection of labour rights and the world of work in the wake of COVID-19.
- MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE TRIPARTITE SOCIAL PARTNERS – MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL PROTECTION, CENTRAL ORGANISATION OF TRADE UNIONS (COTU (K)) AND FEDERATION OF KENYA EMPLOYERS (FKE)
- Kenya: Preparing for a Safe Return to Work
- Kenya: Employee rights and guarantees during COVID-19 Pandemic
- In the midst of the Covid crisis, Kenyan unions are attempting to tackle the climate emergency head on
Lebanon
Macedonia
Malaysia
Maldives
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Maldives: Covid-19 Exposes Abuse of Migrants Overhaul System to Protect Foreign Workers at All Times
Montenegro
- COVID-19 and the World of Work Rapid Assessment of the Employment Impacts and Policy Responses MONTENEGRO
- Legal analysis of the regulation and implementation of “teleworking” in Montenegro’s Labour Framework
Mauritania
Nigeria
Nepal
- SC asks govt to bring back migrant Nepalis stranded in foreign lands
- 70 percent of industries found flouting govt decision to provide regular payment to workers
- On International Labour Day, workers remain under lockdown racked with uncertainty caused by Covid-19 pandemic
- Roadmap for repatriation, reintegration of migrant workers
- Writ filed at apex court demanding repatriation of Nepali migrant workers at govt expenses
- Supreme Court orders government to use welfare fund to repatriate Nepali workers stranded abroad
- Standard Workers Repatriation Directive of Nepal government
- Dalit communities suffered financial hardship, job loss, discrimination during Covid-19 pandemic
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Pakistan
- Pakistan: Rabbani, rights activists decry ban on trade unions at PIA
- Pakistan: [Provincial] Govt [of Punjab province] report sought on workers layoff
- Fast fashion: Pakistan garment workers fight for rights amid Covid-19 crisis
- Rights of 3,000 workers threatened, Pakistani union files complaint vs hydropower project
Singapore
Sri Lanka
South Africa
- South African health workers sue government over medical supplies
- South Africa: Workers ineligible for Unemployment Insurance Fund can now claim Ters benefit
- South Africa: Temporary Employee-Employer Relief Scheme Benefit
- South Africa: Domestic worker unions fight to be able to claim Covid-19 compensation
- Job cuts, lock-ins, and fear: Domestic workers suffer Covid-19 squeeze
- Support for women informal workers is urgent as pandemic unfolds in South Africa
South Korea
- Metal unions, police and the Ministry of Labor accused of ‘Samsung union destruction’
- South Korea: Virus infection recognized as occupational accident
Taiwan
Tunisia
Ukraine
- Ukraine: COVID-19 relief bills called into question
- WORKER RIGHTS EXPERTS FIELD COVID-19 QUERIES IN UKRAINE
- Ukraine: COVID-19 is an ‘Occupational Disease’
- The pandemic has returned migrant workers to Ukraine. Will they stay?
- Adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts to Improve Legal Regulation of Remote Work”
United Kingdom
- IWGB to sue UK government over its failure to protect precarious workers
- IWGB and Uber drivers suing UK government over its failure to protect millions of precarious workers
- BA ‘dismissal threat’ undermines talks, pilots’ union Balpa says
- Furloughing and Fundamental Rights: The Case of Paid Annual Leave
United States
- US Dept. of Labor CARES Act Rules
- US: AFL-CIO COVID-19 and Immigrant Workers Fact Sheet
- US: ‘Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’’ or the ‘‘CARES Act’’.
- US Department of Labor Announces New Paid Sick Leave and Expanded Family and Medical Leave Implementation
- New York City has opened a human-rights probe into Amazon’s firing of a warehouse worker who led a strike against the company over coronavirus safety concerns
- The Laws That May Protect Employees From Coronavirus Hazards
- The Labor Department Won’t Take Steps to Protect Health Care Workers from the Coronavirus
- COVID-19 Relief Bill Leaves Out Many Domestic Workers
- Uber, Lyft drivers seek state sick time protections as Covid-19 concern spreads
- America needs paid sick leave laws to stop coronavirus from spreading
- How the U.S. National Labor Rights Act Protects Workers’ Refusal to Work in Unsafe Conditions
- US: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 – Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program Operating, Financial, and Reporting Instructions
- How state attorneys general are protecting workers during the coronavirus pandemic
- How states and employers can use work sharing to avoid more layoffs
- Now Is the Best and Worst Time for Workers to Go on Strike
- COVID-19: We need more OSHA, not less
- State of New York v. U.S. Department of Labor
- Temp Workers Face Greater Risk and Insecurity in COVID-19 Crisis
- Thousands of OSHA complaints filed against companies for virus workplace safety concerns, records show
- RCWA & JANE DOE V. SMITHFIELD
- I work at Smithfield Foods. I’m suing them over putting our lives at risk for your dinner
- Bus Drivers Need Better Protection
- Protecting Whistleblowers under COVID-19: A Proposal for “Preclearance” for Termination
- In-Store Instacart Shoppers in Chicago Get OK for Union Vote
- State AGs Demand That Amazon Tell Them How Many Warehouse Workers Have Died From COVID-19
- COVID-19: Essential workers deserve workers’ comp
- AFL-CIO sues feds over coronavirus workplace safety
- AFL-CIO v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor
- McDonald’s Workers Sue Claiming Virus Measures Falling Short
- The Labor Department is forcing workers back to jobs that could make them sick
- NLRB Gets Covid-Related Unfair Labor Practice Charges
- One Way To Protect Workers In A Pandemic: Make It Harder To Fire Them
- Uber and Lyft Drivers Sue for New York Unemployment Benefits
- Lyft Sued for Violating D.C. Sick-Day Law During Pandemic
- Amazon Workers Sue Over Virus Brought Home from Warehouse
- Appeals court rejects AFL-CIO lawsuit over lack of COVID-19 labor protections
- How and Why to Empower Workers in the COVID-19 Response
- US: New Laws for the Fissured Workplace
- US: Norwood v. Rodi Marine (COVID-19 negligence case)
- Responding to Forced Labour in the US Healthcare System
- Unfair Choices: Can Workers Refuse to Return If Their Workplaces Are Unsafe?
- Clean Slate for Worker Power: Worker Power and Voice in the Pandemic Response
- Fight over COVID-19 workplace rules moves to states
- Amazon, suddenly benevolent, says it won’t punish workers for handwashing breaks
- Why we need COVID-related whistleblower protections
- Meatpacking workers file lawsuit against OSHA, accusing agency of failing to keep them safe
- VENCEREMOS and FOOD & WATER WATCH v. TYSON FOODS, INC., (FTC Complaint)
- Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19
- Smithfield Fined $13,494 by OSHA After Worker Infections, Deaths
- Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’
- New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19
- Southwest pilots’ union sues carrier over changes to work rules during pandemic travel slump
- US: Republican politicians: Let OSHA do its job
- Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Virus Mandate for Large Employers
Uruguay
- Derechos sindicales centran debate en Parlamento de Uruguay
- PIT-CNT planteó en el Parlamento su rechazo absoluto a LUC
- PIT-CNT con respecto al Proyecto de Ley con declaración de urgente consideración
Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe: Doctors sue over COVID-19 exposure
- Doctors sue Zimbabwe government over lack of Covid-19 protective equipment
- Zimbabwe: Authorities must drop charges against health care workers for demanding better wages