La Poste Case: The First Decision on the Merits by the Paris Court of Appeal’s Special Chamber, a Methodological Milestone Structuring Duty of Vigilance Jurisprudence

On June 17, 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal’s Special Chamber (Chamber 5-12, dedicated to “emerging litigation”) delivered its first-ever ruling on the merits under France’s 2017 Duty of Vigilance Law (Loi …

Labour must deliver collective bargaining for unions – John Hendy

The Employment Rights Bill is nearly an Act. It only remains for the government to use its majority in the House of Commons to defeat the Tory and Lib-Dem amendments …

Equalities watchdog submits formal guidance after UK supreme court transgender ruling

The equalities watchdog has submitted its formal guidance about how institutions should respond to the landmark supreme court ruling on transgender people’s rights, with its chair admitting it would be …

‘All the power is with the employer’: why zero-hours workers welcome Labour’s rights bill

When Seamus Foley took a job on a zero-hours contract at a board games bar in London two years ago, the flexibility it offered was appealing. Now, the deal looks …

More flexible staffing rules for France’s digital platforms?

For centuries, the use of an individual’s physical or intellectual strength on behalf of another has been governed by an employment contract and highly protective legal provisions.  Since 2000, however, …

Lidl signs UK pledge to prevent sexual harassment within workforce

German supermarket chain Lidl has signed a formal agreement with the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), vowing to strengthen its policies against sexual harassment in the workplace. The …

The “underdiagnosis” of heat-related worker deaths: “The data doesn’t reflect what’s happening.

(article originally in Spanish) Unions say official statistics, which do not report a single death in 2024, do not capture the scale of the phenomenon. Other European countries suffer from …

North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work ‘like slaves’ in Russia

Thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work in slave-like conditions in Russia to fill a huge labour shortage exacerbated by Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the BBC has …

Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) v. Spain

The complaint was registered on 31 July 2025. It relates to Articles 1§§2 and 4 (the right to work), 3 (the right to safe and healthy working conditions), 11 (the …

Riders without rights

For three freezing months over the winter of 2022, Sharmila, an international student from India, biked across Berlin delivering food for Wolt. She followed every ping on the app, waited …