An elusive justice—holding parent companies accountable for human rights abuse

A UK judgement on Shell’s operations in Nigeria yet again shows the need to prevent powerful multinationals hiding behind their subsidiaries to dodge accountability for human rights abuses. https://www.openglobalrights.org/elusive-justice-holding-parent-companies-accountable-for-human-rights-ab/

The Rise of Supply Chain Transparency Legislation: What is at Stake for Canadian Investors?

Description: This report analyzes the impact and enforcement mechanisms for various pieces of legislation (specifically, the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, the US Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, …

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UK:”Collection: Certification Officer decisions: breach of union rules”

On this webpage, United Kingdom’s (“U.K.”) Government’s Certification Officer, who is the head of the Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations, publishes final decisions on complaints filed by …

Dewhurst v Citysprint UK Ltd

The Central London Employment Tribunal found that Dewhurst, a cycle courier, was a worker within the meaning of the Employment Rights Act. As such, the employer, a same day courier …

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Book Review: “Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour”

Book Review written by Ines Wagner in the BJIR, An International Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 54, Issue 4, December 2016, pp. 883-884. Hardcover book itself edited by Cathryn Costello …

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UK: “False Self-Employment, Autonomy and Regulating for Decent Work: Improving Working Conditions in the UK Stripping Industry”

Research Article Abstract Posted in Front of Paywall: “A large‐scale study of working conditions in UK‐based strip dancing clubs reveals that dancers are against de facto self‐employment as it is …

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UK: “Beyond Neo-Liberalism: The Trade Union Act 2016 and the Authoritarian State”

Discusses the three main characteristics of the changed trade union regulations in the U.K.’s The Trade Union Act 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dww023

Holding UK companies to account in the English courts for harming people in other countries (Aug 2016)

A guide to “help communities, workers, and civil society organizations supporting them, to understand the process of using legal action in England to hold UK companies to account for harming …

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Landmark ruling finds gangmasters liable

A High Court judge has ruled in favour of six workers trafficked from Lithuania in a case brought against chicken catching business DJ Houghton Catching Services. This is the first …

Unite the Union v. the United Kingdom

Following a series of consultations with interested parties, including the applicant – a trade union representing around 18,000 employees in the agricultural sector –, the UK Government succeeded in having …

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