Breest v Haggis, 2019 NY Slip Op 09398, Dec 26, 2019

The central question in this appeal is: what must a plaintiff allege in order to state a cause of action under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law …

The Fissured Worker: Personal Service Companies and Employment Rights

A personal service company (PSC) is a form of intermediary with separate legal personality used as a vehicle to provide the labour of the individual who controls the PSC. The …

Refugees and decent work: Lessons learned from recent refugee jobs compacts

The paper “addresses refugee livelihoods – in particular, waged work for refugees – from a labour standards perspective. This is in contrast to the usual approach to refugee livelihoods, in …

FASHION’S NEXT TREND Accelerating Supply Chain Transparency in the Apparel and Footwear Industry

Transparency about supply chains in the garment and footwear industry is a rapidly growing trend. The complex network of global suppliers that apparel and footwear companies use to produce their …

Italy: Appeal Court of Naples ruling on “Jobs Act

Click here for a link to the Appeal Court decision (in Italian). English Summary The Appeal Court of Naples puts into question the collective redundancies’ legal framework as designed by …

 Caesars Entertainment d/b/a/ Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, 368 NLRB No. 143.

In a decision issued today, the National Labor Relations Board reestablished the right of an employer to restrict employee use of its email system if it does so on a …

THE SAFETY BUSINESS: TÜV SÜD’S ROLE IN THE BRUMADINHO DAM FAILURE IN BRAZI

Recently, a lawsuit was filed in Germany against the auditing firm which had declared the Brumadinho dam safe just prior to its collapse. At least 272 people were killed on …

The workers organising for a better future in Cambodia

When she was elected to represent the local branch of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, or CCADWU, in 2007, Srun Sokthy felt alone and disheartened. She wasn’t …

Doe v Apple Inc., et al

On December 16, 2019. a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington DC against Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla by Congolese families who say their children were killed …

Opinion: The case for public reforms to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel

More than 25 years have passed since the World Bank Group’s board of directors created the first independent accountability mechanism, the Inspection Panel, to allow communities harmed by bank-funded public …

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