The Employment Status of Uber Drivers A Comparative Report Prepared For The Social Law Project, University Of The Western Cape

Oxford Pro Bono Publico University sponsored research project from 2017 highlighting the status of Uber drivers in a variety of jurisdictions with a comparison between drivers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, …

ADHIKARI v. KBR INC.

The plaintiffs in this case, five Nepali men, allege that they were promised work in Jordan but were instead trafficked to work for KBR, a U.S. defense contractor, on a …

US EEOC and Peru sign historic national collaboration and dissemination agreement to combat labor discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the United States of America and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru have signed a Memorandum of Understanding by which they commit to …

LABOR PLATFORMS AND GIG WORK: THE FAILURE TO REGULATE

Ruth Berins Collier, V.B. Dubal, and Christopher Carter. (2017). “Labor Platforms and Gig Work: The Failure to Regulate”. IRLE Working Paper No. 106-17. Since 2012, the platform economy has received …

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¿LA LEY DE TRANSPARENCIA DE CALIFORNIA EN CADENAS DE SUMINISTRO ESTÁ HACIENDO MÁS DAÑO QUE BIEN? (25 de julio de 2017)

La publicación describe la Ley de Transparencia en las Cadenas de Suministro de California (CTSCA), como una legislación procesal en lugar de sustantiva, y señala sus debilidades con respecto a la responsabilidad corporativa. Además plantea que el ...

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OECD Case: Society for Threatened Peoples vs. Credit Suisse

NCPs involved: Switzerland NCP (lead), United States NCP COUNTRY OF OPERATIONS: United States DATE: 24 April 2017 STATUS: Pending ISSUES: The complaint alleges that Credit Suisse has breached both its …

U.S. Workers Need Not Apply: Challenging Low-Wage Guest Worker Programs

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2017  Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-44 The article argues that guestworker programs are harmful to all workers because …

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CAMARA DE COMERCIO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, v. CIUDAD DE SEATTLE

Queja presentada en el tribunal federal de distrito que busca anular la Ordenanza Municipal de Seattle que permite a los conductores que trabajan en la industria de transporte de alquiler elegir a un representante y negociar sobre los salarios con ...

Doe v. Nestlé USA, Inc.

Plaintiffs were former child slaves forced to harvest cocoa in the Ivory Coast. They filed claims under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) against defendants Nestle USA, Inc., Archer Daniels Midland …

El aumento de la legislación de transparencia de la cadena de suministro: ¿qué está en juego para los inversores canadienses?

Descripción: Este informe analiza los mecanismos de impacto y aplicación de varias leyes (específicamente, la Ley de transparencia en las cadenas de suministro de California, la Ley de facilitación comercial y facilitación del comercio de los EE. UU., ...

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