Ikea’s French subsidiary and 15 individuals including former executives and police officials are to go on trial on charges of spying on employees and customers, prosecutors have announced. Two former …
Eritreans Sue E.U. Over Use of Forced Labor Back Home
BRUSSELS — A Netherlands-based group of Eritreans sued the European Union on Wednesday, demanding it cease financing a project in the east African dictatorship that uses forced labor, the lawyer …
Ukraine: COVID-19 is an ‘Occupational Disease’
On May 13, the government of Ukraine expanded the list of occupational diseases that medical workers can receive as a result of their professional activities. It added coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …
IWGB and Uber drivers suing UK government over its failure to protect millions of precarious workers
IWGB and Uber drivers suing UK government over its failure to protect millions of precarious workers Government income support schemes discriminate against limb (b) workers, including those in the “gig economy”, …
Amazon to Contest COVID-19 Ruling in France’s Highest Court
Amazon France will take its case over worker health and safety related to COVID-19 to France’s highest court. The company announced late Thursday that it would ask the Court of …
Italy to give 600,000 migrants the right to stay
More than half a million illegal migrants in Italy will be given permits to stay and work under plans put forward by the government, which said they had proved essential …
FIRST Union welcomes “land-mark” decision in courier case
FIRST Union is describing today’s decision by the Employment Court reclassifying a contract courier driver as an employee as a land-mark decision that will have a ripple effect throughout the …
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Something for Europeans to celebrate – a new social contract begins to emerge?
“COVID-19 has exposed the shortcomings for many companies denying responsibility for their workers, using tax havens and left without operating reserves to respect wages and supply chain orders due to …