“The much-awaited judgment by the UK Supreme Court (SC) in Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another (Okpabi) was handed down in an online hearing on Friday 12 February 2021 some …
Uber: London cabbies plan to sue for damages
Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully. The planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill …
Firms accused of putting workers’ lives at risk by bending lockdown trading rules
Analysis by the Observer shows that no enforcement notices have been served on companies by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors for Covid safety breaches since the country went into the latest lockdown, despite …
Pimlico Plumbers to introduce ‘no jab, no job’ work contracts
Pimlico Plumbers will introduce a “no jab, no job” policy requiring all of its workers to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Charlie Mullins, Pimlico’s founder and former chief executive, now chairman, …
OSC successful in ground-breaking challenge to Government failure to extend H&S protections to workers during COVID-19 pandemic
In this ground-breaking case in the fields of health and safety, EU and employment law, the Administrative Court (Mr. Justice Chamberlain) has agreed with the IWGB that the UK Government …
R (IWGB) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions et al
This was an application for judicial review brought by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) which argued that EU Directives on health and safety, which had been transposed …
A judicial action to extend the health and safety directives to hundreds of thousands of workers
On the 21 October 2020, the IWGB (Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain) presented its argument before the High Court of England and Wales to have the recognition that the UK government …
RESHAPING WORK: GIG ECONOMY AROUND THE WORLD
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Okpabi v Shell and Lungowe v Vedanta Dispel Three Myths
Last Friday, the Supreme Court decided Okpabi v Shell. This is the most recent of a series of cases on the duty of care that UK parent companies may owe …