A complete economic and social moratorium has been the standard governmental response to the Covid19 pandemic. On a daily basis, we are updated about further steps to be taken to …
Union Garment Workers Fear ‘An Opportunity to Get Rid of Us’
Myan Mode, a garment factory on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, produces men’s jackets, women’s blazers and coats for Western fashion companies like Mango and Zara. Since the start of …
Peru: Decreto Legislativo N° 1499
El presente Decreto Legislativo tiene por objeto establecer diversas medidas para garantizar y fiscalizar la protección de los derechos sociolaborales de los/as trabajadores/as de la actividad privada y de los/as …
IWGB and Uber drivers suing UK government over its failure to protect millions of precarious workers
IWGB and Uber drivers suing UK government over its failure to protect millions of precarious workers Government income support schemes discriminate against limb (b) workers, including those in the “gig economy”, …
Amazon to Contest COVID-19 Ruling in France’s Highest Court
Amazon France will take its case over worker health and safety related to COVID-19 to France’s highest court. The company announced late Thursday that it would ask the Court of …
RCWA v Smithfield Foods (ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS)
The District Court granted Smithfield’s Motion to Dismiss, finding that it should decline to hear this matter pursuant to the primary-jurisdiction doctrine to allow the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) …
Italy to give 600,000 migrants the right to stay
More than half a million illegal migrants in Italy will be given permits to stay and work under plans put forward by the government, which said they had proved essential …
India: Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers’ Rights for Three Years
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a …
Amazon told workers paid sick leave law doesn’t cover warehouses
Amazon workers in southern California’s industrial heartland say the company’s policies are forcing sick employees to work and that warehouses are refusing to comply with a state paid sick leave …
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Modi’s asked Indian firms to ‘be kind’ amid lockdown but many workers have not been paid their wages
“At least three petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court demanding that companies be given the freedom to fire or furlough employees. Mysore-based Hazira, 26, who goes by one …