The ILAW Network is pleased to invite you to a webinar on the regulation of telework in Europe and Central Asia. Well-regulated telework offers workers flexibility and autonomy, allowing for …
Nepalese recruitment agency directors handed slavery order
Two directors of a Nepalese recruitment agency suspected of exploiting vulnerable workers by charging them thousands of pounds in fees have been handed a Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order (STRO). …
New year, new rules for German businesses as Supply Chain Act comes into force
In the new year, German companies will be forced to monitor their supply chains more strictly. On January 1, the new Supply Chain Act comes into force, a piece of legislation that …
Safety checks on dangerous machines restored after 15 years
Dangerous machinery will have to undergo independent safety checks for the first time in over 15 years under a newly-agreed EU regulation. Mandatory third-party safety checks on high-risk machinery were scrapped …
Uber’s Spanish food delivery platform to pay severance to 4,400 riders
Uber’s food delivery platform in Spain has agreed in court to pay severance to 4,400 riders it had fired in 2021, local union UGT said on Tuesday. The riders lost …
Subcontracting: Exploitation by design. Tackling the business model for social dumping
A new study commissioned by The Left in the European Parliament sets out how subcontracting has become the business model for exploiting workers in the EU. Numerous scandals – from systemic exploitation …
Indonesian migrant workers in the UK: More than 200 people repatriated, some ‘unpaid and have to mortgage houses’
The Indonesian Ministry of Manpower asked the migrant worker placement company, PT Al Zubara, not to collect the short departure fees for workers in the UK who are still in …
The rider is like an employee: the Milan court forces Glovo to hire
A ruling requires the food delivery platform to reintegrate a person left at home on better terms: fixed, full-time contract and commercial management. But politics is silent on the general rules …
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