Rethinking the Competition Law/Labour Law Interaction

The spread of non-standard forms of work, including platform work, has created some friction between labour law and competition law, in particular concerning the collective bargaining of self-employed workers. This …

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Counterfeit Liberty

Unlike some countries with stronger labor movements, labor law plays an outsized role in the regulation of labor relations in the United States. This legalistic regime tends to substitute state …

All Roads Lead to Rome: Strengthening Domestic Prosecutions of Businesses through the Inclusion of Corporate Liability in the Rome Statute

“Although “business” might not be the first word that springs to mind when thinking of widespread atrocities committed in conflict and post-conflict situations, the involvement of corporate actors in such …

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The Price You Pay: How Purchasing Practices Harm Turkey’s Garment Workers

Exploitation and abuse of Syrian refugees who make ‘fast fashion’ for the high streets of Paris, London and Berlin continues, despite three years of revelations. This report explains the root …

The Firm Exemption and the Hierarchy of Finance in the Gig Economy

Worker-owned or controlled firms face a little-studied threat from antitrust law that typifies much broader problems with the current antitrust paradigm, namely that it favors coordination through concentrated ownership and …

NMB Final Rule on Union Decertification Procedures

The new rule, which enters into force August 2019, would simply the procedure to decertify a union in the airline and railway industry.  Once it is determined that the showing …

Walmart Stores, Inc. and The Organization United for Respect at Walmart (Our Walmart).

The central issue in this case is whether a May-June 2013 work stoppage, called the “Ride for Respect,” was an intermittent strike unprotected by the National Labor Relations Act. If …

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Indian government seeks to introduce ‘business friendly’ labor law reforms

This article analyses the  introduction of two new labor code bills in the House of Parliament in India, the Code on Wages and the Code on Occupational Safety, Health and …

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Human Trafficking at Home: LABOR TRAFFICKING OF DOMESTIC WORKERS

This report, a joint project of Polaris and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), is an attempt to put legal and societal recommendations forward by compiling and sharing qualitative and …

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Cambodia: Fundamental Freedoms Monitor, Third Annual Report

The Fundamental Freedoms Monitoring Project (FFMP) examines the state of the freedoms of association, expression and assembly in the Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia). Utilizing a range of monitoring tools, the …

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