“Discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, race and ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender identity remain widespread, both at the workplace and in wider society. Data indicate …
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Living Like People Who Die Slowly: The Need for Right to Health Compliant COVID-19 Responses
“According to the World Health Organization, as of 31 August 2020 COVID-19 had infected a confirmed total of 25,118,689 people worldwide and contributed to at least 844,312 deaths. International news …
TEMPORARY MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA DURING COVID-19
“This is the first study to reveal the depth of social exclusion, racism and deeper emotional consequences of Australia’s policies, which have significantly impacted Australia’s global reputation. Three in five …
Supporting the viability and sustainability of EaP civil society during the COVID-19 crisis
“Civil society organisations have played a crucial role in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on EaP countries’ healthcare sector, society, economy and democracy. CSOs have been complementing the …
ILO report on Youth Aspirations and the Future of Work
The report reviews “the literature on the concepts and drivers of aspirations; develops a conceptual framework that relates labour market conditions to aspirations; maps the existing survey-based evidence on the …
ISSUES UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: EMPLOYEE RIGHTS TO REFUSE TO WORK IN UNSAFE CONDITIONS, AND ISSUES FOR BARGAINING AND THOSE AFFECTING HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS
“In a nutshell, further elaborated in the following sections, the right of workers covered by the NLRA to be free from retaliation for engaging in concerted activities for mutual aid …
Looking back to look ahead: A rights-based approach to social protection in the post-COVID-19 economic recovery
As the world faces the deepest economic recession since the 1929 Great Depression, social protection is again on the top of the international agenda, years after the adoption in 2012 …
Will there be a sunrise for workers’ unions in India’s renewable sector?
“In the 2020 United States Presidential election campaign, Democratic candidate Joe Biden has announced a two trillion U.S. dollar clean energy plan which focuses on stable jobs in the renewable sector and …
Why Uber and Lyft are taking a page out of big tobacco’s playbook in labor law battle
“Uber and Lyft are waging a scorched-earth regulatory battle to avoid providing basic benefits to their drivers, now considered essential workers, in their largest US market: California. In response to …
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The 2020 Draft UN Business and Human Rights Treaty–Steady Progress Towards Historic Failure
“It is not only appropriate, but essential, then, to seek to establish within the framework of the UN human rights system a universal normative platform to facilitate the evaluation and …