Action Plan to Tackle Trafficking in Persons and to Enhance Protection of Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong

Hong Kong legislation provides the same labor rights and benefits to foreign domestic helpers and local workers: one rest day per week, 12 paid statutory holidays per year, 7-14 days …

Administrative Commission for the settlement of the employment relationship, 23/02/2018

If the facts communicated by the potential future employee lead to the conclusion that the envisaged employment relationship, consisting of the delivery of meals by bicycle, is not characteristic of …

India’s Law on Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

The research paper examines India’s legal framework to prevent sexual harassment at the workplace from its conception in 1999 where the Supreme Court, recognizing legislative vacuum, framed guidelines that formed …

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FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN PAKISTAN: WHAT DO WE KNOW?

This policy note provides a comparison of the trends in female labor force participation in Pakistan from 1992 till 2015 and highlights some of the key barriers to their entry …

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Hidden Chains: Rights Abuses and Forced Labor in Thailand’s Fishing Industry

This 2018 report notes that despite the well-documented problems of forced labor by migrant workers in the Thai fishing industry, the Thai government has yet to take the necessary steps …

Samsung sued in France for falsely advertising that their supply chain respects worker rights.

On Jan. 11, 2018 , Two French NGOs (Sherpa and ActionAid France) filed a case in Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris against Samsung France and its Korean parent company, …

Australia: Employing Older Workers

This report is a survey conducted to identify possible discrimination of elderly Australians in the workforce. It notes some improvements in the employment of elderly Australians from its 2014 survey …

China: Migrant workers and their children

There were an estimated 287 million rural migrant workers in China in 2017, making up more than one third of the entire working population. Migrant workers have been the engine …

Russia: Migrants from Central Asia struggle with documentation in Krasnodar Krai

This article is about two migrant workers from Central Asia. Based on the story of these migrant workers the author describes problems in the area of migrant workers’ rights. Thus, …

Germany – Country Report on Non-discrimination (2018)

This report by the European Commission provides a wide range of topics on discrimination, including employment, in Germany. In Chapter 12, Latest Developments, the report provides for important case laws …

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