ILAW Network

DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY IN HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

This report states that although the Russian Labor Code prohibits discrimination, it does not mention specifically mention sexual orientation and gender identity and that employers discriminate on this basis in …

Inter-Regional Social Movement ‘Russian LGBT Network’

Employment Relationship

The distinction between employment and independent contracting in Australia

The most authoritative Australian case on the multifactorial test distinguishing employees from independent contractors is Hollis v. Vabu [2001] HCA 44 (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2001/44.html). However, the later decision of the Federal Court …

Federal Court of Australia

Employment Relationship

Australian case on the multifactorial test distinguishing employees from independent contractors

The most authoritative Australian case on the multifactorial test distinguishing employees from independent contractors is Hollis v. Vabu [2001] HCA 44 (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2001/44.html). However, the later decision of the Federal Court …

Federal Court of Australia

Employment Relationship

What is wrongful or unfair dismissal in China and how to avoid it

Discussion of wrongful or unfair dismissal in China. http://www.chinalawblog.org/law-topics/employment-law/68-what-is-wrongful-or-unfair-dismissal-in-china-and-how-to-avoid-it

Migrant Workers

Towards a strategy for the inclusion of migrant workers in trade unions

This report is related to the Irish migrant workers. Also, the report addresses the commitment to develop a strategic approach to the inclusion of black and minority ethnic members. https://www.ictu.ie/download/pdf/ictu_migrant_workers_a5.pdf

Siobhan Philips

Migrant Workers, Trade Union Rights

Labour Rights in Qatar: An ITUC briefing for trade union delegates to the UN Climate Changes talks in Durban

The brief shows the regulation of trade union rights in Qatar and discusses whether migrant worker’s trade union right is violated. https://www.world-psi.org/sites/default/files/attachment/news/labour_rights_in_qatar_ituc_briefing_0.pdf

ITUC

Trade Union Rights

The State of Workers’ Rights in Nigeria: An Examination of the Banking, Oil and Gas and Telecommunication Sectors

This study examines the rights of workers in Nigeria. The study focuses on workers in three sectors of the economy: banking, oil and gas, and telecommunication. Through empirical data, the …

Adebimpe Adenugba, Funmi Adewumi

Supply Chains

OECD Watch: ECCHR, Sherpa, & UGF vs. Louis Dreyfus, Cargill Cotton, ICT Cotton, Devcot S.A., Otto Stadtlander, Agroindus-trial Crop Ltd., and Paul Reinhart AG (joint complaint by ECCHR, Sherpa, and UGF against seven cotton dealers)

NCPs involved: Switzerland NCP, United Kingdom NCP, Germany NCP, France NCP COUNTRY OF OPERATIONS: Uzbekistan DATE: October-December 2010 STATUS: All Agreement/Concluded ISSUE: The complaint alleges that cotton dealers in France, …

OECD Watch

Transnational Bargaining

Between Fragmentation and Globalization: U.S. Public Sector Unions and International Labor Cooperation

This article (in 35 Lab. Stud. J. 364 (2010)) explores the import of public-sector unions in cultivating transnational labor campaigns, as well as the challenges that development has entailed. Langevin …

Mark S. Langevin

Employment Relationship, Supply Chains

Court decision regarding the standard for a dispatched worker to be deemed as an employee of using employer (Case Number: 2008Du4367)

This is a court decision which sets forth the standard for a dispatched worker to be deemed as an employee of using employer, and the application of ‘deemed direct employment’ …

Supreme Court of South Korea

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