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“Do Immigrants Trust Trade Unions? A Study of 18 European Countries” (United Kingdom; European Union; United States)

This article examines, via systematic cross-national empirical analysis of migrants’ attitudes in Western Europe, whether unions have been able to gain the trust of migrants, as expressed by the migrants …

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Hong Kong owner of Pacific island casino sued over forced labour, trafficking claims

Hong Kong-listed Imperial Pacific, the owner of a multi-billion Saipan gaming project, is being sued by former construction workers who say they were victims of forced labour and human trafficking …

Uber Settles Drivers’ Lawsuit for $20 Million

Uber on Monday settled a long-running legal battle with drivers in California and Massachusetts who wanted the ride-hailing company to recognize them as employees, agreeing to pay the drivers $20 …

Court Dismisses Cocoa Supply Chain Labor Non-Disclosure Suit Against Nestlé

A federal court in the District of Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that multinational food giant Nestlé failed to disclose the alleged presence of “child and slave labor” in its cocoa …

US Women’s National Soccer Team lawsuit: What we know and what it means going forward

With a little more than three months until the U.S. plays its opening game in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, 28 members of the current U.S. women’s national team player …

Morgan v. UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION, INC.

The United States Soccer Federation, Inc. (“USSF”) is the single, common employer of female and male professional soccer players who play on the United States Senior Women’s National Soccer Team …

Uber gives up fight over unemployment insurance decision

For the past three years, Uber has been locked in a dispute over whether it is obligated to contribute to unemployment insurance payments that the state’s Department of Labor decided …

UK: “Implied Terms and Human Rights in the Contract of Employment”

Research Article Abstract Posted in Front of Paywall: “This article considers the potential for implied terms in the contract of employment to protect employees’ human rights. The slim prospects of …

Antitrust as Allocator of Coordination Rights

Abstract It is conventionally understood that the purpose of antitrust law is to promote competition. Yet much more fundamentally, antitrust law allocates coordination rights. In particular, our current antitrust framework …

New bipartisan bill seeks to expand ADEA protections

A bill to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was re-introduced into the U.S. Senate last week. The bill comes one month since the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that …

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