Sud v. Costco Wholesale Corp., 229 F. Supp. 3d 1075, 1079 (N.D. Cal. 2017)

Facts Plaintiff brought suit against Costco under the California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”), Business and Professions Code sections 17200 et seq.; False Advertising Law (“FAL”), Business and Professions Code sections 17500 …

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Regulating the Human Supply Chain

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 102, 2017  Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2914424 U.S. employers’ recruitment of migrant workers from abroad has created a global “human supply chain” that is …

Regulating the Human Supply Chain

The Article highlights a stark governance deficit with regard to human supply chains, analyzing the causes and harmful effects of an effectively unregulated world market for human labor.  This paper …

Transnationalizing Unions: The Case of the UAW and the IG Metall

This case study documents the Transnational Partnership Initiative between the United Auto Workers union in the United States and the IG Metall union in Germany. The two unions joined efforts …

Speech by US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard discussing the expansion of the “gig” economy

Speech by Governor Lael Brainard, member of the US Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System since 2014. Governor Brainard discusses the expansion of the “gig” economy and the risks/opportunities …

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF SUBSIDIARIES: Liability of Parent Companies for Human Rights Violations of Subsidiaries (Oct. 2016)

The article first describes the nature of multinational corporations and how their structure lends itself to limited liability in the context of supply chain accountability. The authors then turn to …

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‘Techtopus’: A Critical Analysis of the Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Scandal

This article (in 5 Manchester Rev. L. Crime & Ethics 160 (2016)) examines the Silicon-Valley Wage-fixing scandal as a white-collar crime and an intersection between antitrust law and labor law. …

Les droits du travail dans l'économie des plateformes - Revenir à l'essentiel

Le statut des travailleurs dans des entreprises à «économie de plate-forme» telles que Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit et Handy est devenu un problème juridique et politique important. Poursuites judiciaires contre plusieurs de ces entreprises…

Rhaman v. J C Penney Corp

Facts: On April 23, 2013, cracks were noticed in Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building in Savar, Bangladesh. The building was evacuated. An engineer declared Rana Plaza unsafe and requested a …

Les ambiguïtés persistantes de la responsabilité antitrust du collectif de travailleurs

Cet article examine la réglementation, par le droit de la concurrence, des actions collectives menées par des travailleurs à bas salaire classés dans la catégorie des contractants indépendants et qui, par conséquent, ne bénéficient pas du bénéfice de…

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