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Amazon Reaches Deal With French Unions in Coronavirus Safety Dispute

PARIS — ​Amazon has reached an agreement with French unions to reopen its warehouses in France after a lengthy battle over safety measures to protect workers against the coronavirus, capping the …

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COVID-19 and the World of Work Rapid Assessment of the Employment Impacts and Policy Responses: NORTH MACEDONIA

“The decline in working hours during quarter 2 is equivalent to the loss of 85,550 full-time jobs. The Covid-19 crisis hit North Macedonia after a year of exceptional job growth, …

Ikea France to face trial over claims it spied on staff and customers

Ikea’s French subsidiary and 15 individuals including former executives and police officials are to go on trial on charges of spying on employees and customers, prosecutors have announced. Two former …

Eritreans Sue E.U. Over Use of Forced Labor Back Home

BRUSSELS — A Netherlands-based group of Eritreans sued the European Union on Wednesday, demanding it cease financing a project in the east African dictatorship that uses forced labor, the lawyer …

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Ukraine: COVID-19 is an ‘Occupational Disease’

On May 13, the government of Ukraine expanded the list of occupational diseases that medical workers can receive as a result of their professional activities. It added coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …

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From Morocco and Tunisia to Belgium via Italy: migration and posting of third country nationals (Regional Case Study)

“Over the last fifteen years Belgium has been one of the main destinations for posted workers, together with Germany and France. This growth has been absorbed particularly by the construction …

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IWGB and Uber drivers suing UK government over its failure to protect millions of precarious workers

IWGB and Uber drivers suing UK government over its failure to protect millions of precarious workers Government income support schemes discriminate against limb (b) workers, including those in the “gig economy”, …

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Amazon to Contest COVID-19 Ruling in France’s Highest Court

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 …

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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 …

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