Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead

Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board released its most important ruling in many decades. In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of …

Law & Informality Insights No 8

This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human rights violations and to draw to this the attention of the Inter-American Commission …

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En Paraguay se presenta nuevo proyecto de ley para regular el trabajo en plataformas digitales

Recientemente se ha radicado en el Congreso Nacional del Paraguay un proyecto de ley para regular el trabajo en plataformas digitales. Éste tiene como objetivo reconocer la laboralidad de las …

Ninth Circuit Allows Human Rights Claims Against Cisco to Proceed

There may yet be life in the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The Ninth Circuit recently held, in Doe I v. Cisco Systems, Inc., that Chinese practitioners of Falun Gong could go forward with …

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AI Is a Lot of Work

“As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. A few months after graduating from college in Nairobi, a 30-year-old I’ll call Joe got …

Eswatini: Authorities must stop using the courts to intimidate and harass union leaders

Ahead of the court appearance of Sticks Nkambule, Secretary General of Swaziland Transport Communication and Allied Workers Union, on trumped-up charges of contempt of court stemming from his involvement in …

What’s new?: ‘Targeted update’ strengthens OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

“On 8 June 2023, the OECD released a “targeted update” of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Negotiations on the newly renamed “OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business …

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Glacier Northwest Could Have Been Worse, But it’s Still Bad

As expected, all six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the employer in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. Teamsters. Due to strategic voting by Justices Kagan and …

Iowa governor signs one of the most dangerous rollbacks of child labor laws in the country

Last Friday, this concerted attack on child labor safeguards further expanded. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed an expansive bill enacting numerous changes to the state’s child labor laws, including: allowing employers to …

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Poverty: African vagrancy laws continue to discriminate, despite court victories

“At least 22 African countries – former colonies of the Belgians, British, Dutch, French and Portuguese – retain domestic laws that make ‘vagrancy’ illegal and equip the police with excessive …