COVID-19
This is the ILAW Network’s COVID-19 resource page. We will try to keep this as up to date as possible. We have also set up an ILAW Network COVID-19 discussion group (members only).
Click here to chronologically view all the COVID-19 News & Resources on the ILAW Network website.
Scroll down to view those resources sorted by category (Global, Regional, Thematic and Country Specific):
Global
- ABA: Multi-Country Snapshot of COVID-19 Related Legal Changes
- ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey: Half of countries in lockdown as COVID-19 pandemic wreaks health and economic havoc on working people and their families
- State of emergency: how different countries are invoking extra powers to stop the coronavirus
- ILO ACTRAV Analysis: Governments’Responses to COVID-19
- COVID19 and the Corporate Duty to Respect Human Rights: It’s time for the business community to step up
- UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Statement on COVID-19
- Shaping a new social contract through the pandemic
- Businesses all over the world are learning that “force majeure” is no get-out-of-jail-free card
- Covid-19 and Labour Law. A Global Review
- RESPECTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TIME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- COVID19 and the Corporate Duty to Respect Human Rights: It’s time for the business community to step up
- ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey 20 April – 23 April 2020 Key Findings
- ILO Monitor 2nd edition: COVID-19 and the world of work Updated estimates and analysis
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. (Third edition)
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. Third edition Updated estimates and analysis
- “Every worker is essential and must be protected from COVID-19, no matter what” – UN rights experts
- ILO Guidance: A safe and healthy return to work during the COVID-19 pandemic
- ILO: Safe Return to Work – Ten Action Points
- Positive Government Responses to COVID-19
- UN WOMEN’S RESPONSE TO COVID-19
- ITUC Global Covid-19 Survey: Support for government action falls as global jobs crisis takes hold
- Les usines asiatiques de Primark, Mango et Zara licencient-elles leurs employés syndiqués ?
- Challenges in Implementation of Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 due to COVID-19 and plea of force majeure
- Seafarers Trapped Serving Global Supply Chains amounts to Egregious Abuse of Human Rights: States Must Fulfill their Duty to Protect
- New international commitment to improve seafarers’ rights
- Fighting climate change and labour rights abuses ‘two sides of the same coin’ for Sharan Burrow
- YOUTH &COVID-19: IMPACTS ON JOBS, EDUCATION, RIGHTS AND MENTAL WELL-BEING
- A Practical Guide to Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
- Living Like People Who Die Slowly: The Need for Right to Health Compliant COVID-19 Responses
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work
- ITUC Legal Guide – Telework
- ILO: Resolution concerning maritime labour issues and the COVID-19 pandemic
- General observation on matters arising from the application of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006) during the COVID-19 pandemic
- ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. Seventh edition Updated estimates and analysis
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Workers in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia
Thematic
Supply Chains
OSH
- Putting people first 12 governments show the world how to protect lives, jobs and incomes
- A New Social Contract can rebuild our workplaces and economies after COVID-19
- COVID-19 and world of work: Impacts and responses
- COVID-19 – time for governments, brands and employers to protect supply chain and precarious workers from hardship and infection
- ILO: State practice to address COVID-19 infection as a work-related injury
- Thousands of OSHA complaints filed against companies for virus workplace safety concerns, records show
- Amazon France Logistique SAS v Union syndicale Solidaires
- RCWA & JANE DOE V. SMITHFIELD
- Council of Global Unions Statement on Recognition of COVID-19 as an Occupational Disease
- How French Workers Took on Amazon in the Middle of a Pandemic and Won
- Shelter From the Storm
- RCWA v Smithfield Foods (ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS)
- AFL-CIO sues feds over coronavirus workplace safety
- AFL-CIO v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor
- McDonald’s Workers Sue Claiming Virus Measures Falling Short
- South Korea: Virus infection recognized as occupational accident
- Ukraine: COVID-19 is an ‘Occupational Disease’
- Renault Sandouville : la justice donne raison à la CGT, la santé et la vie ne se négocient pas
- France: Renault Sandouville Decision
- COVID-19 classified as occupational accident in Italy
- Appeals court rejects AFL-CIO lawsuit over lack of COVID-19 labor protections
- US: How and Why to Empower Workers in the COVID-19 Response
- US: Norwood v. Rodi Marine (COVID-19 negligence case)
- US: Unfair Choices: Can Workers Refuse to Return If Their Workplaces Are Unsafe?
- Meat plant must be held to account for Covid-19 outbreak, says German minister
- Tackling the Covid-19 pandemic at the workplace
- LOCAL JOINT EXECUTIVE BOARD OF LAS VEGAS v. HARRAH’S LAS VEGAS LLC; THE SIGNATURE CONDOMINIUMS LLC; BELLAGIO LLC,
- Brazil Medics Urge ICC To Probe Bolsonaro Virus ‘Crimes’
- COVID-19: ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS ON SOUTH AFRICAN EMPLOYERS IN TERMS OF THE REVISED OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY DIRECTION
- Amazon Ring call center workers in Philippines ‘scared’ to go to work during pandemic
- Malaysia to charge Top Glove over poor worker accommodation, government says
- Why it’s time to blow the whistle on Amazon
- R (IWGB) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions et al
- During a pandemic, democracy at work is even more important than ever
- New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19
- WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE: Food Workers Organizing on the COVID Frontlines
- HesaMag: Special Edition – Occupational health in the courts
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Workers in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia
Employment Relationship
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
Trade Union Rights
Migrant Workers Rights
Gender-Based Violence and Harassment
Informal Economy
Discrimination
Regional
Americas
Europe
Middle East and North Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Country Specific
Albania
Argentina
Austria
Australia
- Australia: Can employees use paid sick leave entitlements while stood down for COVID-19?
- COVID-19 employment Issues – a ready reckoner for Australian workers
- Australia: Workers’ Rights, Tools & Resources for dealing with COVID-19
- Coronavirus and directing employees to work from home: examining an employer’s duty of care
- What Now for Wage Theft? Enforcement of Employment Rights and Entitlements in a Time of Crisis
- What do we know about the extent of stand downs, their legal basis, and challenging unlawful stand downs?
- Age discrimination in a pandemic: COVID-19 and inequality at work
- ‘The Spirit of Australia’, just not in a pandemic: Qantas plays hard-ball on workers’ rights
- Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia & Ors v Qantas Airways Limited
- Protection of temporary migrants is now a ‘public health issue’
- Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020
Argentina
Bangladesh
Belgium
Brazil
Burma
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Denmark
France
Germany
India
Israel
Italy
Jordan
Kenya
Lebanon
Macedonia
Malaysia
Maldives
Montenegro
Mauritania
Nigeria
Nepal
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Pakistan
Singapore
Sri Lanka
South Africa
South Korea
Tunisia
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
- US Dept. of Labor CARES Act Rules
- US: AFL-CIO COVID-19 and Immigrant Workers Fact Sheet
- US: ‘Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’’ or the ‘‘CARES Act’’.
- US Department of Labor Announces New Paid Sick Leave and Expanded Family and Medical Leave Implementation
- New York City has opened a human-rights probe into Amazon’s firing of a warehouse worker who led a strike against the company over coronavirus safety concerns
- The Laws That May Protect Employees From Coronavirus Hazards
- The Labor Department Won’t Take Steps to Protect Health Care Workers from the Coronavirus
- COVID-19 Relief Bill Leaves Out Many Domestic Workers
- Uber, Lyft drivers seek state sick time protections as Covid-19 concern spreads
- America needs paid sick leave laws to stop coronavirus from spreading
- How the U.S. National Labor Rights Act Protects Workers’ Refusal to Work in Unsafe Conditions
- US: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 – Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program Operating, Financial, and Reporting Instructions
- How state attorneys general are protecting workers during the coronavirus pandemic
- How states and employers can use work sharing to avoid more layoffs
- Now Is the Best and Worst Time for Workers to Go on Strike
- COVID-19: We need more OSHA, not less
- State of New York v. U.S. Department of Labor
- Temp Workers Face Greater Risk and Insecurity in COVID-19 Crisis
- Thousands of OSHA complaints filed against companies for virus workplace safety concerns, records show
- RCWA & JANE DOE V. SMITHFIELD
- I work at Smithfield Foods. I’m suing them over putting our lives at risk for your dinner
- Bus Drivers Need Better Protection
- Protecting Whistleblowers under COVID-19: A Proposal for “Preclearance” for Termination
- In-Store Instacart Shoppers in Chicago Get OK for Union Vote
- State AGs Demand That Amazon Tell Them How Many Warehouse Workers Have Died From COVID-19
- COVID-19: Essential workers deserve workers’ comp
- AFL-CIO sues feds over coronavirus workplace safety
- AFL-CIO v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor
- McDonald’s Workers Sue Claiming Virus Measures Falling Short
- The Labor Department is forcing workers back to jobs that could make them sick
- NLRB Gets Covid-Related Unfair Labor Practice Charges
- One Way To Protect Workers In A Pandemic: Make It Harder To Fire Them
- Uber and Lyft Drivers Sue for New York Unemployment Benefits
- Lyft Sued for Violating D.C. Sick-Day Law During Pandemic
- Amazon Workers Sue Over Virus Brought Home from Warehouse
- Appeals court rejects AFL-CIO lawsuit over lack of COVID-19 labor protections
- How and Why to Empower Workers in the COVID-19 Response
- US: New Laws for the Fissured Workplace
- US: Norwood v. Rodi Marine (COVID-19 negligence case)
- Responding to Forced Labour in the US Healthcare System
- Unfair Choices: Can Workers Refuse to Return If Their Workplaces Are Unsafe?
- Clean Slate for Worker Power: Worker Power and Voice in the Pandemic Response
- Fight over COVID-19 workplace rules moves to states
- Amazon, suddenly benevolent, says it won’t punish workers for handwashing breaks
- Why we need COVID-related whistleblower protections
- Meatpacking workers file lawsuit against OSHA, accusing agency of failing to keep them safe
- VENCEREMOS and FOOD & WATER WATCH v. TYSON FOODS, INC., (FTC Complaint)
- Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19
- Smithfield Fined $13,494 by OSHA After Worker Infections, Deaths
- Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’
- New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19
Uruguay
Zimbabwe