This briefing note by the ETUC focuses on the human rights and workers’ rights impacts from the laws, policies, and measures that countries are taking, in particular by ‘declaring states …
Now Is the Best and Worst Time for Workers to Go on Strike
“On March 28, Chris Smalls felt like giving up. He’d spent days talking with co-workers at the Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in New York City’s Staten Island about how to temporarily …
Under Trump the NLRB Has Gone Completely Rogue
An agency founded to defend workers’ rights is dismantling them just when workers need them most. “Last week, while the country was riveted on the skyrocketing number of Covid-19 cases …
Class Action Lawsuit filed by SECOR v. VILLAGE MATERIAIS DE ACABAMENTO LTDA
SUBJECT: RIGHT TO LIFE AND HEALTH. LACK OF PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST THE NEW CORONAVIRUS IN THE WORKPLACE. VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE OF HUMAN DIGNITY. This was a class action …
New York City has opened a human-rights probe into Amazon’s firing of a warehouse worker who led a strike against the company over coronavirus safety concerns
New York City’s human-rights commissioner has opened an investigation into Amazon’s firing of a warehouse worker who participated in a protest against the company, a spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. …
The Laws That May Protect Employees From Coronavirus Hazards
Across America, workers compelled to work in dangerous conditions or in close contact with individuals who may be carriers of the coronavirus are protesting. On Monday, Instacart workers in multiple …
Kenya: Employee rights and guarantees during COVID-19 Pandemic
“Employment relationships are not commercial contracts, and the court must strive to achieve the delicate balance between the need for our national economic development, and the protection of the dignity …
Ukraine: As government mulls new labor code, unions brace for battle
Serhiy Rudnitsky, a line manager at a Coca-Cola Ukraine bottling plant, said he could no longer stomach his working conditions. According to him, the pay was low, vacation days were …
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Cambodia: State of Emergency bill violates the rule of law
The ICJ today warned that Cambodia’s draft Law on National Administration in the State of Emergency (“State of Emergency bill”) violates basic rule of law principles and human rights, and …