Paid domestic work and the struggles of care workers in Latin America

The authors compare the working conditions of domestic workers in Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0011392118765259

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Peru 2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Section 7 of the report addresses broadly the current situation of the workers’ rights. The report analyses the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining in the country, …

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Ecuador: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017

Section 7 of the report addresses broadly the current situation of the workers’ rights. The report analyses the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining in the country. …

What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer?

Describes personal accounts of what happens when guestworkers try to stand up to their employers to confront labor abuse. https://www.thenation.com/article/what-if-your-ability-stay-country-depended-your-employer/

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The Global Governance of Paid Domestic Work: Comparing the Impact of ILO Convention No. 189 in Ecuador and India

The article explains the situation of domestic workers in Ecuador through the years and how their situation has changed, comparing it with the experience in India, after the ILO Convention …

House approves prohibiting transgender discrimination

The New Hampshire House voted in March 2018 to expand the state’s anti-discrimination law to include transgender people. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-hampshire/articles/2018-03-07/house-to-vote-on-prohibiting-transgender-discrimination

Peru: Regulation of Act N° 30709, Act that prohibits remunerative discrimination between men and women

Title in Spanish: Reglamento de la Ley N° 30709, Ley que prohíbe la discriminación remunerativa entre varones y mujeres. The regulation of the act that prohibits remunerative discrimination between men and …

R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission et al

R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes argued that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected their ability to fire a transgender worker. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, finding that  …

Litigation Risk Focuses Minds on Modern Slavery

The article discusses “the emergence of court actions using existing legal frameworks to bring abusers of human rights to justice in the courts,” particularly in the case of transnational corporations …

Danell Tomasella, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. THE HERSHEY COMPANY

The class action claim alleges that Hershey knowingly benefitted from child labor in the cocoa supply chain in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire and failed to disclose such information to consumers …

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