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, …

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 …

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’ …

Tadao Maruko v Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Bühnen (2007) and Jürgen Römer v Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (2010) – Court of Justice of the European Union

Tadao Maruko v Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Bühnen (September 6, 2007) and Jürgen Römer v Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (July 15, 2010) – Court of Justice of the European Union These …

Case Opinions for Tadao Maruko v. Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Bühnen (September 6, 2007) and Jürgen Römer v. Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (July 15, 2010) – Court of Justice of the European Union

These cases go hand in hand as important decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union with respect to survivor’s pension and social security rights for registered partners …

A Bitter Cup – the Exploitation of Tea Workers in India and Kenya Supplying British Supermarkets

The report shows the labor problems under global supply chains context. The report points out that the tea workers in Kenya and India are suffering low wages, bad working conditions …

Quebec decision advances the rights of migrant workers

The news reports that a case decision grants migrant workers the right to unionize, ruling that it is unconstitutional for Quebec’s labor code to bar migrant workers from forming a …

Thlimmenos v. Greece (April 6, 2000)

Court held that conduct may be discriminatory if two persons are treated alike while their situations are significantly different.  Thlimmenos, a Greek national, was refused an appointment as a chartered …

United Kingdom: Equality Act 2010

This is the Act governing UK law that aims to prevent inequality as well as discrimination and harassment concerning personal characteristics/sex/pay/victimization against employees at the workforce. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15

United Kingdom: Gibson & Ors v Sheffield City Council, 2010

    This case is about pay differences based on sex and the possibility of discrimination.  Here, the claimants worked as carers for special needs children and claimed that male …

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