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Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience

“For most workers in the informal economy, the lack of social protection is a challenge not only in their daily struggles to make ends meet but in their aspirations to …

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LOCAL JOINT EXECUTIVE BOARD OF LAS VEGAS v. HARRAH’S LAS VEGAS LLC; THE SIGNATURE CONDOMINIUMS LLC; BELLAGIO LLC,

Here is the COMPLAINT, filed by the culinary workers union in Las Vegas, Nevada against three restaurants at major Las Vegas casinos for the failure of the employer to protect …

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MODEL ARBITRATION CLAUSES FOR THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES UNDER ENFORCEABLE BRAND AGREEMENTS

“The 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse disaster in Bangladesh, as well as numerous other industrial tragedies and labor rights abuses have exposed the need for brand and supplier accountability for …

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Seafarers Trapped Serving Global Supply Chains amounts to Egregious Abuse of Human Rights: States Must Fulfill their Duty to Protect

“As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in violation of international law. Each …

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Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller

Here is the decision from the Canadian Supreme Court finding the arbitration clause of Uber’s contracts to be invalid: https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/18406/index.do The Supreme Court found that a court may depart from the …

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The pandemic has returned migrant workers to Ukraine. Will they stay?

“Ukrainian labour keeps several European economies afloat. But after migrants returned home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kyiv is now reluctant to let them depart again. When the borders open, I’ll …

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Clean Slate for Worker Power: Worker Power and Voice in the Pandemic Response

“Our country is racked by two urgent crises – the COVID-19 pandemic and the plague of systemic racism, the latter of which has manifested in the continued killing of Black …

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Why Is OSHA AWOL?

“As states and municipalities relax shelter-in-place orders, the nation seems to be racing to get the economy back to something resembling the pre-pandemic era. Restaurants, malls, cinemas, day care centers …

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‘With labour exploitation worsening during Covid, tech giants must allow workers to join unions’

““I even have had to pay [my employer] money at the end of the month instead of getting money.” That’s a quote from Batsa, a 25-year-old Nepalese worker in an …

TASHKENT’S REFORMS HAVE NOT YET REACHED US: UNFINISHED WORK IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FORCED LABOR IN UZBEKISTAN’S 2019 COTTON HARVEST

“In just a few years, Uzbekistan has made significant, rapid progress toward the elimination of adult forced labor in the cotton harvest, following the elimination of child labor in 2014. …

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