Islamic Labor Code

From Introduction: There are nearly two billion Muslims in the world, one-fourth of the total world population. In 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, more than one billion …

Vietnamese workers still in the dark about potential of new representative organisations

On a late Friday afternoon, thousands of workers are streaming out of the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, a dense industrial area crammed inside a tight bend in the Saigon …

The fight for safe rates for transportation workers in South Korea

In the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of East Asia’s most advanced digital economies, with e-commerce, ride-hailing, and other services all growing. But for many truckers and …

Time is running out for Indonesia’s labor unions

The protests against Indonesia’s labor reform bill started in January 2020. Since then, trade union members have been tear-gassed by police during nationwide demonstrations and riots, threatened with jail time …

Trade and industrial policy: implications for development and international labour standards

“Attempts to protect and promote labour standards through trade agreements have not yielded desired results, due to a lack of enforceable provisions, absence of institutional mechanisms and political will. The …

A Estrutura da Lei do Trabalho: Autônomo e Seu Direito de Negociar Coletivamente

“Este artigo enfoca o direito à negociação coletiva dos trabalhadores autônomos em relação à legislação antitruste sob uma perspectiva europeia e internacional. Argumenta que a abordagem atual do Tribunal ...

Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing. “The …

Updating a study of the union effect on safety in the ICI construction sector

“In 2015, the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) published a study on the effect of unionization on the incidence of workers’ compensation claims in companies from the institutional, commercial …

Key elements of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

As regards investment, the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) will be the most ambitious agreement that China has ever concluded with a third country. In addition to rules against the forced …

Staring down the barrel of a landmark judgment on its workers’ status, Uber folds

Uber has settled a legal challenge that struck at the heart of its business model and could have resulted in its drivers and riders being classified as employees, after three …

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