Buying power and human rights in the supply chain: legal options for socially responsible public procurement of electronic goods

Several scandals involving well-known electronics brands have highlighted the exploitative and unsafe conditions under which many workers operate in the industry’s long and complex supply chains. As large-scale consumers of …

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“UK government to ban restaurant owners from taking share of tips”

[Direct Quote of Online Abstract (in front of paywall): “Trade unions have experienced significant turbulence over the past three decades. In the UK and Ireland, a key change has been …

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Review of the complaint mechanism created by the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises promulgated by the OECD

John Ruggie and Tamaryn Nelson study the complaint mechanism created by the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises promulgated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. They see if there are any …

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Industrial Action and Liability in Japan: A Legal Overview

This article analyses the scope of “proper” industrial action, which is protected by Labor Union Act, by introducing cases of the Supreme Court and lower courts in Japan. It also …

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Working in the UK without a Default Retirement Age: Health, Safety, and the Oldest Workers

With the abolition in the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) of the Default Retirement Age in the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1069), this article reviews various …

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Gender and income equality in the Russian workplace

This article examines gender discrimination in Russia. Specifically, it mentions that two-fifths of senior management positions in Russian companies are filled by women. Women are mostly active in information technology, …

From kin to contract: labour, work and the production of authority in rural Mongolia

A study on pastoral labour, which is common in Mongolia but largely governed by local customs rather than labour law. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2014.974569?scroll=top&needAccess=true

An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber’s Driver-Partners in the United States

This paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data. Uber has grown at an exponential rate over the last …

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Trade Union Responses to Labour Immigrants: Selective Solidarity

This article is related to the migrant workers’ situation in Finland. This qualitative case study analyses the outcomes of the union’s strategies in questions related to immigration. The outcomes affect …

Dialogic Labor Regulation in the Global Supply Chain

This journal article in the Michigan Journal of International Law has a focus on transnational private labor regulation along with regulatory interactions in the space of Supply Chains.

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