ILO Working Paper: An unfinished task? Matching the Platform Work Directive with the EU and international “social acquis”

“Besides straining international, regional and national employment status classification models, digital labour platforms are pioneering new strategies and approaches in terms of algorithmic management, digital surveillance, remote work and cross-border …

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Concluding Observations of South Africa

Please see below the full concluding observations from the the UN CERD on South Africa. In particularly look at paragraphs  20, 21, 22, 42 and 53, which focus on racial …

How Uyghur Forced Labor Makes Seafood That Ends Up in School Lunches

Few workplaces are as gritty and brutal as distant-water fishing ships from China, and there are a lot of them: With as many as 6,500 ships, China today operates the world’s …

THE IMPACT OF STRATEGIC HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION ON CORPORATE BEHAVIOUR

This report is the first focussed consideration of the impact of strategic litigation on corporate behaviour. To work out what are these impacts (such as direct/indirect, immediate/incremental, and positive/negative), and …

SETTING THE SCENE FOR AN EFFECTIVE FORCED LABOUR BAN IN THE EU

The European Union is in the process of developing new legislation to address the challenge of forced labour along global value chains by banning products made with forced labour from …

Exercising workers rights in algorithmic management systems

“Lessons learned from the Glovo-Foodinho digital labour platform case With the Platform Work Directive still under negotiation and the ETUC calling for an EU Directive on Algorithmic Systems at Work, groundbreaking research …

Building Worker Power in Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Apparel, Cocoa, and Seafood

“This working paper is about the campaigners and worker organizers in the global South and North who have challenged the persistent lack of government and corporate accountability for workers’ rights …

Ethical digitalisation at work: From theory to practice

“Automation and digitisation technologies, including artificial intelligence, are rapidly evolving and becoming increasingly powerful and pervasive. The full range of their effects in the workplace is yet to be seen. …

Report on European Labor and Social Security Law

“HSI Report 1/2023 reports on the development of case law and legislation in the area of labour and social security law at European and international level in the period from …

The future of remote work

Debates on the future of work have taken a more fundamental turn in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Early in 2020, when large sections of the workforce were prevented …

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