Amazon France will take its case over worker health and safety related to COVID-19 to France’s highest court. The company announced late Thursday that it would ask the Court of …
RCWA v Smithfield Foods (ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS)
The District Court granted Smithfield’s Motion to Dismiss, finding that it should decline to hear this matter pursuant to the primary-jurisdiction doctrine to allow the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) …
Italy to give 600,000 migrants the right to stay
More than half a million illegal migrants in Italy will be given permits to stay and work under plans put forward by the government, which said they had proved essential …
India: Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers’ Rights for Three Years
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a …
Amazon told workers paid sick leave law doesn’t cover warehouses
Amazon workers in southern California’s industrial heartland say the company’s policies are forcing sick employees to work and that warehouses are refusing to comply with a state paid sick leave …
In-Store Instacart Shoppers in Chicago Get OK for Union Vote
“A federal labor board official in Chicago has approved a mail ballot unionization election for a group of Instacart in-store shoppers at a Jewel-Osco store in Chicago. The petition was …
Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers’ Rights for Three Years
The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a fillip …
‘They just don’t care’: Millions of garment workers facing destitution as Britain’s high street billionaires fail to honour contracts
In his factory in Chittagong, Bangladesh’s main port and trading hub, Mostafiz Uddin has a mountain stacked high of 100,000 pairs of jeans with nowhere to go. The piles of …
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Modi’s asked Indian firms to ‘be kind’ amid lockdown but many workers have not been paid their wages
“At least three petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court demanding that companies be given the freedom to fire or furlough employees. Mysore-based Hazira, 26, who goes by one …