How to Save Labor Law from Slaughter

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question whether independent agencies, as they have been known for the last ninety years, can continue to exist. In Trump v. Slaughter, …

EU Court Draws the Line on Regulating Minimum Wages — Balancing Member State and EU Competence

Nearly three years after Denmark challenged the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages (AMWD), last November 11th, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued a landmark judgment clarifying …

The Inconsistent Approach to Violence Against Women by the European Court of Human Rights

In two recent judgments involving similar fact patterns, the European Court of Human Rights reached opposing conclusions as to whether there had been a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights: B.A. …

Raiser Operations BV v. E Tu Incorporated, SC 105/2024 [2025] NZSC 162

New Zealand’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that four Uber drivers are employees, not independent contractors, bringing a four-year legal battle to an end.  In the judgment, five justices dismissed …

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Akhmad v. Bumble Bee Foods

The court ruled that the fishers presented sufficient allegations of forced labor as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, noting that Bumble Bee did not contest the fishers were subject …

Case C‑19/23 – action for annulment under Article 263 TFEU, brought on 18 January 2023,

By its application, the Kingdom of Denmark seeks, primarily, annulment of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in …

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Europe Is Regulating AI Hiring. Why Isn’t America?

In 2018, Amazon unveiled a groundbreaking AI hiring tool. But what began as a promise to revolutionize how the company identified talent devolved into an algorithm that “did not like women.” …

Driven Down: How Workplace Technology Enables Amazon to Steal Wages, Hide Labor, Intensify Poor Working Conditions, and Evade Responsibility

“Amazon delivery drivers, alongside warehouse workers and other people in the Amazon delivery supply chain, are subject to intense amounts of surveillance. Amazon has multiple avenues for surveilling its delivery …

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Nigeria: Jagun v. Airtel Networks Ltd.

Full Judgment of the Nigerian Industrial Court finding in favor the Mr. Jagun for unfair dismissal and discrimination based on his use of a wheelchair.    

The ‘Coldplay Incident’: Work and Private Life

Last summer, a woman and a man were embracing blissfully at a Coldplay concert when they were caught by a ‘kiss cam’, a camera that is used in concerts to …