Casamitjana was fired after he had alerted co-workers to the fact that their employer’s pension fund invested in companies that engaged in animal testing and that other “ethical” pension funds …
Holiday chaos looms as attempts by BA to block pilot strikes fail
Strikes by British Airways pilots could disrupt hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers from August after the airline lost a second legal attempt to block industrial action. The court of appeal on …
Crossrail hired security firm to monitor trade unionists
“Senior managers at Crossrail, the huge publicly funded rail project in London, hired a corporate security company to monitor trade unionists who were campaigning against blacklisting across the construction industry, …
UK Govt. releases guidelines on human rights defenders & outlines support to defenders working on business and human rights
“To demonstrate our commitment of continued support of human rights defenders globally, this document sets out why human rights defenders are important to us and acknowledges the risks they face …
Ms JW v Khalid Basfar Case 2206477/2018
JW brought a claim against her Saudi diplomat employer, who had bought her to the UK as a domestic servant. The facts of her claim involve working for over 16 hours …
50 blacklisted trade unionists win £1.9m from building firms
More than 50 trade union members have won compensation totalling £1.9m after major construction firms admitted that they had been unlawfully blacklisted and denied work. The compensation will be paid …
Vedanta Resources PLC v Lungowe
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found that a claim brought by a group of Zambian villagers against Vedanta Resources Plc and its Zambian subsidiary, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), could …
UK Supreme Court rules Zambians can sue miner Vedanta
Thousands of Zambian villagers can bring a legal challenge in the English courts against mining company Vedanta over alleged pollution in Zambia, the UK’s highest court ruled on Wednesday. The Supreme Court said …
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Commentary: Jurisdiction, access to remedy in business and human rights cases, and the corporate structure: A tale of two cases
This note introduces two cases, both concerned with liability under a duty of care of parent companies, the obligation of ‘due diligence’ in supply chain operations and the obstacles presented …