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 …

Belgium: C.Const. 22 février 2018, Case Nr. 6629

The Constitutional Court confirms the obligation of the public employer to respect the requirement of a pre-dismissal hearing for contract workers (not only for civil servants). This puts an end …

Belgium: Arbeidshof Brus., 22 Feb. 2018, Case Nr. 2016/AB/742

The fact that investigators were only obliged to inform of their absences but were not required to justify them and that they did not have to take any particular formality …

Belgium: Arbeidshof Brus., 20 Febr. 2018, Case Nr. 2016/AB/959

The European legislator has deliberately distinguished the concept of ‘sickness’ from the concept of disability, which precludes a simple assimilation of the two concepts. Nevertheless, an illness may constitute a …

Statement of Claim before the Danish Labour Court against Ryanair by the DCTU on behalf of the Services Union

This is a Statement of Claim that was submitted to the Danish Labour Court in 2015 by the Danish Conferedation of Trade Unions on behalf of The Services Union.  The …

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 …

Belgium: C.Const., 1 Feb. 2018, Case Nr. 6542, cour-const.be

Articles 1382 and 1383 of the Civil Code, as interpreted by the Court of Cassation, and article 95 of the Insurance Act of 4 April 2014 are compatible with articles …

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, …

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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