Amazon France will take its case over worker health and safety related to COVID-19 to France’s highest court. The company announced late Thursday that it would ask the Court of …
Italy to give 600,000 migrants the right to stay
More than half a million illegal migrants in Italy will be given permits to stay and work under plans put forward by the government, which said they had proved essential …
FIRST Union welcomes “land-mark” decision in courier case
FIRST Union is describing today’s decision by the Employment Court reclassifying a contract courier driver as an employee as a land-mark decision that will have a ripple effect throughout the …
Commissioner Reynders announces EU corporate due diligence legislation
On Wednesday, April 29, during a webinar organised by the European Parliament’s Responsible Business Conduct Working Group, the EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, committed to a legislative initiative on mandatory human rights and …
How French Workers Took on Amazon in the Middle of a Pandemic and Won
“As early as March 17, the day France’s national lockdown took effect, Amazon warehouse workers held protests and strikes. The unions that represent them railed against a lack of hand sanitizer and risks of overcrowding, …
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Something for Europeans to celebrate – a new social contract begins to emerge?
“COVID-19 has exposed the shortcomings for many companies denying responsibility for their workers, using tax havens and left without operating reserves to respect wages and supply chain orders due to …