ILAW Network

GARMENT SUPPLY CHAINS SINCE RANA PLAZA: Governance & Worker Outcomes

The April 2013 Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,000 garment workers and injured many more, shocked the world. Since then, lead firms, supplier factories, governments and multiple …

Employment Relationship

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 …

Ioannis Lianos, Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano

Forced Labor and Trafficking, Supply Chains

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 …

Business and Human Rights Resource Center

Forced Labor and Trafficking, Informal Economy, Migrant Workers

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 …

National Domestic Workers Alliance, Polaris

Trade Union Rights

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 …

ADHOC, Cambodian Center for Human Rights, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Solidarity Center

Employment Relationship

Time to Act for SDG 8: Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity

“What progress has been made towards SDG 8? Despite isolated pockets of achievement, progress towards SDG 8 is slowing down in many areas of the world. An urgent acceleration of …

International Labor Organization

Employment Relationship, Trade Union Rights

Fighting Wage Preemption: How Workers Have Lost Billions in Wages and How We Can Restore Local Democracy

“Local governments, like cities and counties, have long implemented local policies—including higher minimum wages—to improve economic conditions. Local efforts to raise the wage floor have seen a tremendous upsurge over …

Laura Huizar, National Employment Law Project, Yannet Lathrop

Forced Labor and Trafficking, Supply Chains

Empty Promises: The Failure of Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives to Improve Farmer Incomes in the Ivorian Cocoa Sector

Between October 2018 and March 2019, Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) staff interviewed farmers, tribal leaders in cocoa-growing villages, cocoa cooperatives and local and international NGOs to assess the impact of …

Forced Labor and Trafficking, Migrant Workers

Working and Living Conditions of Low-Income Migrant Workers in the Hospitality and Construction Sectors in Qatar

Migrants form 87 per cent of Qatar’s resident population and 95 per cent of its workforce, and 71 per cent of them are employed in low-income occupations. The country has …

Employment Relationship

The platform economy and social law : Key issues in comparative perspective

Bordeaux University’s Centre for Comparative Labour and Social Security Law (COMPTRASEC) held a European workshop in November 2018 dedicated to a comparative legal approach to the platform economy and the …

Christophe Degryse, Isabelle Daugareilh, Philippe Pochet

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