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PANEL REPORT RE ARTICLE 13.15 OF THE EU-KOREA FTA

Findings of the panel The panel of experts appointed by Korea and the EU established that Korea needs to adjust its labour laws and practices to comply with the principle …

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Amazon presses for in-person voting for unionization election in the midst of a pandemic

Amazon wants the upcoming unionization election at its Bessemer, Ala., warehouse to be held in-person, arguing against National Labor Relations Board guidance to hold mail-in balloting in the middle of …

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Islamic Labor Code

From Introduction: There are nearly two billion Muslims in the world, one-fourth of the total world population. In 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, more than one billion …

Vietnamese workers still in the dark about potential of new representative organisations

On a late Friday afternoon, thousands of workers are streaming out of the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, a dense industrial area crammed inside a tight bend in the Saigon …

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The fight for safe rates for transportation workers in South Korea

In the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of East Asia’s most advanced digital economies, with e-commerce, ride-hailing, and other services all growing. But for many truckers and …

Time is running out for Indonesia’s labor unions

The protests against Indonesia’s labor reform bill started in January 2020. Since then, trade union members have been tear-gassed by police during nationwide demonstrations and riots, threatened with jail time …

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Trade and industrial policy: implications for development and international labour standards

“Attempts to protect and promote labour standards through trade agreements have not yielded desired results, due to a lack of enforceable provisions, absence of institutional mechanisms and political will. The …

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The Labour Law Framework: Self-Employed and Their Right to Bargain Collectively

“This paper focuses on the right to collective bargaining of self-employed workers vis-à-vis antitrust law under a European and International perspective. It argues that the current approach of the Court …

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Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing. “The …

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Updating a study of the union effect on safety in the ICI construction sector

“In 2015, the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) published a study on the effect of unionization on the incidence of workers’ compensation claims in companies from the institutional, commercial …

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