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H&M cuts ties with Chinese supplier over Xinjiang forced labour accusations

The company also said it had conducted “an inquiry at all the garment manufacturing factories we work with in China aiming to ensure that they are not employing workers … …

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Farce majeure: How global apparel brands are using the COVID-19 pandemic to stiff suppliers and abandon workers

The ILAW Network, together with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and the Workers Rights Consortium, has issued a new policy paper which examines how brands have used …

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Disconnected: The COVID-19 pandemic & call centre workers‘ rights in Tunisia & Morocco

“The global spread of COVID-19 has prompted unprecedented measures to contain the virus, including the temporary shutdown of business and widespread restrictions on movement. Around the world, travel plans and …

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Extending social protection to informal workers in the COVID-19 crisis: country responses and policy considerations

“The COVID-19 crisis and its economic and social impacts are particularly harsh for workers in the informal economy and their families. Almost 1.6 billion informal workers are affected by the …

Everything you need to know about pushing for equal pay

Workers around the world look forward to payday. A paycheck may bring a sense of relief, satisfaction, or joy, but it can also represent an injustice-an expression of persistent inequalities …

The 2nd Revised Draft of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights–Moving (Slowly) in the Right Direction

A second revised Draft of an international treaty on business and human rights has been released by the Chairperson of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises with …

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Voices from the Litigation Frontlines: Strategic Litigation under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Sept 25, 2020 3-4:00pm BST / 10-1:00am EST / 7:30-8:30pm IST Women and girls seeking justice face enormous hurdles across the globe. Two leading organizations, Solidarity Center and Women’s Link …

September 25, 2020
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TAKING BUSINESS LAW BACK FROM THE ECONOMISTS: BUILDING WORKER POWER THROUGH ANTITRUST REFORM

“The political economy of work in the United States is on the skids. In April 2020, unemployment skyrocketed,reaching a level not seen since the worst days of the Depression in the 1930s. …

The Future for Uber and Lyft Drivers if Their Employers Win the California Fight? Listen to Their Cambodian Counterparts.

“The fight over so-called “gig” work has come to a head in California. Lyft has even threatened to suspend all operations in the state. Why would the company even think …

Re-Thinking Labour Law in the Digitalisation Era

European conference organized by ETUI, ELW and ETUC, with the support of ELDH 15 and 16 October 2020 The conference is organized in the form of webinars, livestreamed from the International Trade Union House (Brussels). …

October 15–16, 2020
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