“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 …
Employment and decent work in refugee and other forced displacement contexts (Compendium of ILO’s lessons learned, emerging good practices and policy guidance)
“The number of people forcibly displaced by armed conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations stands at an all-time high. The increasing scale, duration and complexity of the global displacement …
The gig is up! Do workers really ‘choose’ unstable jobs?
It has sometimes been claimed that workers in atypical and unstable jobs ‘prefer’ this type of working arrangement, because it gives them freedom to combine work with other commitments such …
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 …
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 …
Philippines Department Order No. 221-21: Revised Rules and Regulations for the Issuance of Employment Permits to Foreign Nationals
DO 221-21 revises the Department of Labor and Employment’s Rules and Regulations for the Issuance of Employment Permits to Foreign Nationals. It imposes new timelines, deadlines, fees, employer responsibilities and …
Exposure to psychosocial risk factors in the gig economy: a systematic review
“The ‘gig economy’ refers to a market system in which companies or individual requesters hire workers to perform short assignments. These transactions are mediated through online labour platforms, either outsourcing …
Human Rights Disclosure and Due Diligence Laws: The Role of Regulatory Oversight in Ensuring Corporate Accountability
“The proliferation of human rights disclosure and due diligence laws around the globe is a welcome development in the area of business and human rights. Corresponding improvement in conditions for …
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The other pandemic for migrant workers: wage theft
Employers are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to unlawfully dismiss their migrant workforce and to withhold the wages and benefits that are owed to them. The COVID-19 pandemic has …