Tackling hidden retaliation for strike participation

For workers, employer retaliation represents a major threat in response to their participation in a strike. While dismissal is the most visible form of such retaliation, it can also take …

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal: Privacy at Work in an Era of New Technologies

This journal has a group of articles focused on digital privacy at work. “PRIVACY PROTECTION has become an increasingly complex and controversial issue, fuelling academic and policy discussions, particularly in …

How to Save Labor Law from Slaughter

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question whether independent agencies, as they have been known for the last ninety years, can continue to exist. In Trump v. Slaughter, …

EU Court Draws the Line on Regulating Minimum Wages — Balancing Member State and EU Competence

Nearly three years after Denmark challenged the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages (AMWD), last November 11th, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued a landmark judgment clarifying …

The Inconsistent Approach to Violence Against Women by the European Court of Human Rights

In two recent judgments involving similar fact patterns, the European Court of Human Rights reached opposing conclusions as to whether there had been a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights: B.A. …

Finn v. Humane Society of the United States, No. 24-1416 (4th Cir. 2025)

The Fourth Circuit held that the plaintiffs’ complaints plausibly alleged that their opposition to the vaccine mandate was an essential part of their religious faith and that their refusal to …

Raiser Operations BV v. E Tu Incorporated, SC 105/2024 [2025] NZSC 162

New Zealand’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that four Uber drivers are employees, not independent contractors, bringing a four-year legal battle to an end.  In the judgment, five justices dismissed …

Akhmad v. Bumble Bee Foods

The court ruled that the fishers presented sufficient allegations of forced labor as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, noting that Bumble Bee did not contest the fishers were subject …

Case C‑19/23 – action for annulment under Article 263 TFEU, brought on 18 January 2023,

By its application, the Kingdom of Denmark seeks, primarily, annulment of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in …

Europe Is Regulating AI Hiring. Why Isn’t America?

In 2018, Amazon unveiled a groundbreaking AI hiring tool. But what began as a promise to revolutionize how the company identified talent devolved into an algorithm that “did not like women.” …