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India’s Code on Social Security 2019 and Its Implications on Employee Compensation

The article deals with an analysis of the recent Code on Social Security 2019, by the Central Government of India, which seeks to universalize social security benefits to all workers …

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Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy

A year-long Harvard University project drawing on input from U.S. and global practitioners and academics issued a report offering a package of reforms that promise to help stop the self-reinforcing …

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USING THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL UNDER CEDAW TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Human rights advocates have hailed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) as an international bill of rights for women. The Convention and its …

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Time to care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

A TALE OF TWO EXTREMES Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. The richest 22 men …

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Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame. Volume I, II, III and IV

This collection of four volumes charts the development of collective bargaining since the year 2000 in the 28 EU Member States. These four volumes document how the institutions of collective …

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Contradictory decisions on the employment status of platform workers in Spain

In May 2018, a judgement on the employment status of platform workers was issued for the first time in Spain. In the years since then, there have been at least …

USDOL Joint Employer Rule 2020

On January 12, 2020, the Department of Labor (Department) announced a final rule to revise and update its regulations interpreting joint employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). …

Can workers make better decisions than CEOs?

CEOs and corporate executives may lack the skills needed to make decisions that can benefit society at large. It’s true that all of us have ‘blind spots’- areas where our …

EU: Using criminal law to restrict the work of NGOs supporting refugees and other migrants in Council of Europe Member States

The Expert Council on NGO Law is publishing a study entitled “Using Criminal Law to Restrict the Work of NGOs Supporting Refugees and Other Migrants in Council of Europe Member …

Active case finding for Tuberculosis among migrant brick kiln workers in South India

This study examines the plight of migrant brick kiln workers in Tamil Nadu, India, and their susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB). One in ten workers had symptoms and half did not …

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