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Commentary
Long-term care is in crisis; building worker power is the solution
“If these two pandemic years have felt long to you, imagine what it was like for the hundreds of thousands of long-term care workers when Covid hit in nursing homes …
Acceso a la justicia, Climate and Labor, COVID 19, Discrimination, Employment Relationship, Gender-Based Violence and Harassment, Informal Economy, Labor Law Reform, Other, pandemia, Protección Social, Trade Union Rights
Decálogo para una agenda laboral 2022-2026. Prioridades para legislar aspectos laborales en Colombia
ILAW Network en alianza con la Friedrich Ebert Stiftung en Colombia y el Observatorio Laboral de la Universidad del Rosario, proponen un “Decálogo para una agenda laboral 2022-2026” Decálogo Laboral. …
The Right to Disconnect: Emerging Issues and Ways to Overcome Them
“The blurring of the boundaries between work and life has been an issue plaguing workplaces for years. Even before the pandemic, digital technologies were impacting the confines of a workday to the office, …
A first global mapping of rights-based climate litigation reveals a need to explore just transition cases in more depth
Annalisa Savaresi and Joana Setzer have identified more than 100 climate cases that rely on human rights arguments to promote action on climate change – but also a growing body …
The P&O debacle shows that UK labour law needs an overhaul
“A few years ago, P&O ferries with names like Spirit of Britain and Pride of Kent were under the UK flag with mostly UK-based crew on an average salary of …
Waste pickers play an important environmental and economic role, but the law lets them down
“There is growing recognition of the need to integrate waste pickers into the ‘mainstream economy’. Yet, the fragmented contemporary regulatory framework is not fit for purpose and needs reform. In …
Justice for Miskito divers: A turning point for business and human rights standards from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
For the first time in its history, the Court explicitly stipulates clear business and human rights standards to be met by states and companies. In August 2021, in a landmark …
A Missed Opportunity to Improve Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains
“After two more robust mandatory human rights due diligence (HRDD) proposals were rejected by the European Commission’s (EC) Regulatory Scrutiny Board, revealing the influence of the business lobby, the EC …
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The False Promise of “Third-Category” Worker Laws
Over a century ago, in Lochner v. New York, the U.S. Supreme Court infamously struck down a workplace maximum hours law, suggesting that it was “an unreasonable, unnecessary and arbitrary interference” …