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Vinci in Qatar: court confirms indictment for forced labor

On July 5, the investigating chamber confirmed the indictment of Vinci Construction Grands Projets in the forced labor case on its construction sites in Qatar. Sherpa, which filed the complaint …

Milan probes into Dior suppliers’ illegal labour unsettle luxury sector

The Dior leather bag supplier Milan investigators long had their eyes on was located close to the Via del Lavoro in the suburban city of Opera — or labour street. …

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‘Watershed’ ruling confirms that UK companies trading in forced labour goods risk prosecution

GLAN and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) have won in the Court of Appeal, which ruled that the UK National Crime Agency’s (NCA) refusal to investigate Uyghur forced labour cotton …

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BARGAINING OVER WORKERS’ DATA RIGHTS: How Unions and Works Councils Can Use Collective Bargaining to Specify Workplace Data Protection Norms

“Workplace compliance with existing data protection law appears poor. A variety of reasons explain poor compliance, including a lack of legal clarity. Therefore, in order to boost workplace data protection …

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Improving Workplace Data Protection Compliance

Achieving Workplace GDPR Compliance, Clarifying National Workplace Data Protection Rules, and Enhancing Worker Data Protection through Social Dialogue This paper explores what social partners, governments and civil society organisations can …

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Care platforms: Impacts and challenges from a trade union perspective

“Increasing demand for long-term care (LTC) is a critical issue for the European Union (EU). According to the European Care Strategy, currently around 6 million people work in LTC in …

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Leveraging Data Protection Law for Protecting Workers’ Fundamental Right to Health and Safety in the Workplace: the Amazon Case

The American company Amazon has made headlines several times for monitoring its workers in warehouses across Europe and beyond.1 What is new is that a national data protection authority has recently …

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Swiss court sentences 4 members of Hinduja family to up to 4 1/2 years for exploiting their servants

A Swiss criminal court on Friday sentenced four members of the wealthy Hinduja family with between four and 4 1/2 years in prison for exploiting their vulnerable domestic workers. The …

UK has seen ‘explosion’ in insecure work since 2011, says TUC report

The UK has seen an “explosion” in insecure, low-paid work in the past 14 years, according to a new report. The TUC said its study had found that the number …

Heat stress at work—a political emergency

In 2022, 61,000 deaths in the European Union were attributed to summer heat. Likely  an underestimate, this is only one of many indicators of the growing and unavoidable challenge posed by the impacts of climate …

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