France: Article on Discrimination in the workplace in the publication Le Parisien

Witnesses of discrimination in the workplace confess these practices.  Recruiters are often required from their clients to find attractive candidates, people with any physical disparity such as obesity or high …

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UK falls short on corporate regulation

Laws to regulate companies’ behaviour are desperately needed – but at the current time, the UK falls short. We explain why the UK needs to move beyond the Modern Slavery …

UK: Jordi Casamitjana v. the League Against Cruel Sports

Casamitjana was fired after he had alerted co-workers to the fact that their employer’s pension fund invested in companies that engaged in animal testing and that other “ethical” pension funds …

Protecting migrant construction workers: What can we learn from China, EU, US and Latin America?

This is the third in a series of papers addressing the issue of late, partial or non-payment of wages to migrant construction workers. Our work has a specific focus on …

France: Article on Discrimination in the workplace in the publication Le Nouvel Obs.

France is a worldwide champion of discrimination. To get a job, it is always better to be young, white, and athletic. Even after the 2018 law was enacted, gender inequality …

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Gigante dos transportes recebeu notificação sob o dever francês de lei de vigilância em marco legal

A lei francesa está sendo usada para forçar uma multinacional de transporte rodoviário e logística a tomar as medidas necessárias para acabar com os abusos dos direitos humanos em sua cadeia de suprimentos, na…

Belgium: Voice of our industry – A baseline measurement for professionals

Survey on pay, flexible working, equal opportunities, happiness and stress in the Belgian communication industry. In addition to showing a lack of representation of certain groups, particularly ethnic minorities as …

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“A strike isn’t a goal in itself”: defending labour rights in Ukraine’s gig economy

Recent protests by delivery couriers have focused public interest on precarity and labour rights in Ukraine. With unbearable and sometimes dangerous conditions, working as a courier is one of the poorest paid …

Direitos não trabalhistas para funcionários públicos na Ucrânia

Em 19 de setembro, o parlamento da Ucrânia adotou o projeto de lei nº 1066, “Emendas a certas leis da Ucrânia no reinício do sistema de autoridades estatais”. Este projeto de lei pode politizar ainda mais os civis…

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Arsênico e chumbo na água da torneira

Como defensores dos direitos humanos trabalhando em vários países, incluindo os EUA, vimos como políticas que reduzem a regulamentação de indústrias perigosas podem aumentar os riscos à saúde e segurança ...

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