South Korea: Nurse’s suicide recognized as work-related accident

A state organization has recognized the death of a nurse, who took her own life due to a heavy workload and bullying at work, as a work-related accident. This is …

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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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“Unfair”, “Problematic” Labor Department Hearing in Hong Kong for Filipino Domestic Worker Fired After Employer Found Out She Has Cervical Cancer

A Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong was fired after she has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Her hearing at the Labour Department on her complaints against her employer did …

Ending violence and harassment in the world of work – “ILO Blue Report”

The report contains the English and French versions of the proposed texts of the Convention and Recommendation, as amended in light of the replies received, and for the reasons given …

The political economy of labor market deregulation during IMF interventions

This study examines the relationship between policy interventions by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and de jure labor rights. Combining two novel data sets with unprecedented country-year coverage – leximetric …

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UK: “A band aid on a gaping wound: Taylor and modern working practices” – a review article of “Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices”

In a critique of “Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices” by Matthew Taylor (the “Taylor Review”), Phil Taylor focuses on what he believes are some shortcomings of …

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 …

South Korea: Labor Ministry names 50 companies with gender imbalance

The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Friday, March 18, 2019, released a list of 50 companies lagging behind in gender equality in a country with the biggest gender wage …

UK: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd v Crawford [2019] EWCA Civ 269, [2019] WLR(D) 127 (05 March 2019)

This appellate decision, published by the England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (“EWCA”) on Appeal from the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the United Kingdom (“U.K.”), concerned whether employees …

World Bank: WOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW 2019

In 2019, the World Bank published Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform, which examines ten years of data through an index structured around the economic decisions …