Wages – the monetary payments that workers receive from employers in exchange for their labour – are widely overlooked in academic and policy debates about human rights and business in …
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Auditing firms shouldn’t provide cover for the inaction of global brands on low wages
“The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the brute commercial power brands and retailers wield over garment and textile factories. It has been a harsh reminder that brands and retailers hold significant influence when …
Trade and industrial policy: implications for development and international labour standards
“Attempts to protect and promote labour standards through trade agreements have not yielded desired results, due to a lack of enforceable provisions, absence of institutional mechanisms and political will. The …
The Labour Law Framework: Self-Employed and Their Right to Bargain Collectively
“This paper focuses on the right to collective bargaining of self-employed workers vis-à-vis antitrust law under a European and International perspective. It argues that the current approach of the Court …
The other pandemic for migrant workers: wage theft
Employers are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to unlawfully dismiss their migrant workforce and to withhold the wages and benefits that are owed to them. The COVID-19 pandemic has …
Employment and decent work in refugee and other forced displacement contexts (Compendium of ILO’s lessons learned, emerging good practices and policy guidance)
“The number of people forcibly displaced by armed conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations stands at an all-time high. The increasing scale, duration and complexity of the global displacement …
The gig is up! Do workers really ‘choose’ unstable jobs?
It has sometimes been claimed that workers in atypical and unstable jobs ‘prefer’ this type of working arrangement, because it gives them freedom to combine work with other commitments such …
Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom
Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing. “The …
The Labour Law Framework: Self-Employed and Their Right to Bargain Collectively
This paper focuses on the right to collective bargaining of self-employed workers vis-à-vis antitrust law under a European and International perspective. It argues that the current approach of the Court …
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The fourth industrial revolution and Covid-19 in sub-Saharan Africa
“The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the workplace remarkably. This is evidenced by the concomitant shift of the working space to the digital arena after curfews and lockdowns were imposed. All …