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Lords pass amendment to weaken crackdown on zero-hours contracts

The Employment Rights Bill suffered a set-back on Monday, as Conservative and Liberal-Democrat peers successfully passed amendments that weaken the government’s measures to tackle insecure work. The amendments seeks to …

New Global Safety Standards Aim to Protect AI’s Most Traumatized Workers

A global trade union on Thursday urged the world’s major tech companies to adopt what it says is the first set of global safety protocols for content moderators. Content moderators …

Italy cracks down on sweatshops feeding Loro Piana, Armani, Dior

The unnamed worker was paid off-the-books, earning roughly €1,500 ($1,742) a month, according to legal documents seen by Bloomberg — about the price of one Loro Piana baby cashmere sweater. …

Resources

The Future of Corporate Liability: Why the ‘Failure to Prevent’ Model Matters for Human Rights Due Diligence Regulation

The ‘failure to prevent’ model is a legal construct under which a corporate entity can be held strictly liable for failing to prevent certain unlawful acts (typically committed by associated …

Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal: The Right to Strike Issue

In this thematic issue, the contributors demonstrate the past and contemporary relevance of a right to strike. Some authors do so with reference to the long-standing role that such an …

Weaponising the Labour Codes

In early 2024, the provincial governments of Punjab and Sindh in Pakistan unveiled the draft Labour Codes that seek to repeal 25 existing labour laws and replace them with unified, …

Trade unions and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) A guide for involvement

This Guide aims at supporting trade unions in influencing the NDCs. It has been drafted by Claire La Hovary (ACTRAV), with the support of Lene Olsen (ACTRAV), and has benefited …

Collective bargaining and collective action in the platform economy: A 2024 update of developments in legislation, case law and collective agreements

This working paper was prepared in 2024 and reviews developments internationally since 2021 relating to the exercise of the right to bargain collectively and the existence of collective agreements among …

Requiem for the Wagner Act

On July 5, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) into law. Known as the Wagner Act, after its author, New York’s Sen. Robert Wagner, …

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