A Legal Challenge Against Racist Labor Exclusions Finds Life in Washington

“On November 5th the Washington Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that dairy workers are eligible for overtime pay. The Martinez-Cuevas decision could apply to all agricultural workers in Washington state. Materially this will …

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Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’

With the pandemic still in full swing and the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine just starting to ship in the United States, Google has pushed back the planned return to the …

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US Government Accountability Office Report: International Trade – Observations On Whether Women’s Rights and Economic Interests Are Protected or Promoted by U.S. Trade Preference Programs

The US Government Accountability Office published a new report on “Whether Women’s Rights and Economic Interests Are Protected or Promoted by U.S. Trade Preference Programs.”

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Nestlé & Cargill v. Doe Series: The Economic Folly of Human Trafficking for American Business

“1861 Revisited In 1861, the United States went to war over the question of whether economic benefits for the Southern elite could justify enslaving Africans. Slavery’s proponents focused on the …

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Nestlé & Cargill v. Doe Series: A Canadian Perspective – Takeaways from Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya.

“Canadians working to promote human rights accountability for multinational businesses have long looked to Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation in the United States with a mixture of admiration and envy. …

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Federal Labor Agency Says Google Wrongly Fired 2 Employees

A federal agency said on Wednesday that Google had most likely violated labor law when it fired two employees who were involved in labor organizing, a spokesman for the agency said. …

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U.S. bans cotton imports from China producer XPCC citing Xinjiang ‘slave labor’

The Trump administration expanded economic pressure on China’s western region of Xinjiang, banning cotton imports from a powerful Chinese quasi-military organization that it says uses the forced labor of detained …

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Nestlé & Cargill v. Doe Series: Rethinking the Alien Tort Statute

“This Term’s consolidated cases Nestlé USA v. Doe and Cargill v. Doe show how the Supreme Court has gone wrong in applying the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and offer a chance for correction. …

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DoorDash Denied Arbitration of California Drivers’ Tip Claims

Food-delivery platform DoorDash Inc. must face allegations that it impermissibly used customer tips to meet minimum pay requirements for drivers, after a California appeals court declined Monday to compel arbitration …

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Nestlé & Cargill v. Doe Series: Toward a Harmonized Test for Complicity of Corporate Officials?

“The amicus brief by international law scholars, former diplomats, and practitioners in Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I, filed Oct. 21, 2020, rightfully argues that secondary liability in the form of aiding and abetting …

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