IKEA to compensate East German prisoners for forced labor

Germany’s Bundestag parliament and IKEA Deutschland on Tuesday announced that the furniture colossus would contribute €6 million (roughly $6.5 million) to a new German government fund designed to compensate victims …

Fishermen on Scots trawler win £20,000 modern slavery claim

A group of migrant fishermen recognised as victims of modern slavery have been awarded £20,000 each compensation by the UK Government. The Ghanaian crew were rescued in 2020 from the …

EU member states adopt agreement on platform work

The European Union countries have officially adopted the hard-won agreement on better protection for platform workers. Belgium and the other member states will have two years to incorporate the provisions …

From ‘Fairness at Work’ to ‘Making Work Pay’: A Preliminary Assessment of the Employment Rights Bill

The pessimism of the politics should not obscure the radicalism and ambition of the Employment Bill. Indeed, it may be the most ambitious set of reforms since 1971. The Bill …

New Duty on UK Employers to Prevent Sexual Harassment

From 26 October 2024, UK employers will be subject to a new positive duty to prevent sexual harassment of workers in the course of their employment. The new preventative duty …

Labour’s employment rights bill: what key changes will it bring?

Labour’s employment rights bill is the biggest step towards enacting one of its key election offers: to make sweeping changes to rights at work and improve pay. Here are the main details …

The UK’s Turn to Switch Off? Lessons from Australia’s Right to Disconnect

One commitment made in the Labour Party’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’ was introducing a ‘right to switch off’ from work. Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic demonstrated that a wide range …

Time to remedy the legal consequences of Jivraj v Hashwani? The personal scope of application of equal treatment legislation

This blogpost revisits the 2011 UK Supreme Court decision in Jivraj v Hashwani [2011] UKSC 40, which adopted a narrow reading of the personal scope of the Equality Act 2010 as it …

PwC to start tracking working locations of all UK employees

The consultancy PwC has told its employees it is going to begin tracking their working locations to ensure that all workers spend “a minimum of three days a week” in the office …

The European Green Deal: climate action, social impacts and just transition safeguards

The European Green Deal (EGD) is a growth strategy that seeks to combine climate action with economic stimuli. Climate action, however, inevitably creates winners and losers, at least in the …

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