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Remedy in Business and Human Rights Cases The Role of National Human Rights Institutions

From 22–24 October 2018, the German Institute for Human Rights and the Danish Institute for Human Rights hosted a workshop in Berlin for national human rights institutions (NHRIs) on remedy …

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Banning Hope: Bangladesh Garment Workers, Seeking a Dollar an Hour Face Mass Firings, Violence, and False Arrests

The government and apparel factory owners in Bangladesh have carried out a brutal crackdown on garment workers in retaliation for largely peaceful protests against the country’s extremely low minimum wage. …

2018 Annual Report Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile

In 2018, the Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile (AGT) took further steps in the area of International Responsible Business Conduct (IRBC). Companies, the government, civil-society organisations, and trade …

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The Constitutional Court decision of South Korea (2017 Hun-Ma 820, April 11, 2019)

The Korean Labor Standards Act protects the employees against the unfair dismissal and provides the effective remedy for the unfairly dismissed employees. But that protection and remedy are not applied …

Vedanta Resources PLC contra Lungowe

A Suprema Corte, em uma decisão unânime, concluiu que uma ação movida por um grupo de moradores da Zâmbia contra a Vedanta Resources Plc e sua subsidiária na Zâmbia, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), poderia…

Antuzis & Ors x DJ Houghton Catching Services Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 843 (QB) (08 de abril de 2019)

A Suprema Corte decidiu em favor de um grupo de homens lituanos que foram colocados em condições terríveis por uma empresa britânica, capturando galinhas em fazendas de todo o país…

CES: Novas estratégias sindicais para novas formas de emprego

O inquérito foi encomendado pela CES e realizado pelos Professores Countouris e De Stefano para explorar opções para novos enquadramentos jurídicos conceptuais implícitos no surgimento de 'novos…

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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Joint Employer Status

On April 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposed rule to revise and clarify the responsibilities of employers and joint employers to employees in joint employer arrangements. …

Protecting the right to strike in the ILO and the European Court of Human Rights: the significance of Appn No 44873/09 Ognevenko v Russia – Tonia Novitz

Freedom of association is a foundational principle of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Not only is this principle recognised in the ILO Constitution, first established as Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles, a …

The Rules of #MeToo

Two revelations are central to the meaning of the #MeToo movement. First, sexual harassment and assault are ubiquitous. And second, traditional legal procedures have failed to redress these problems. In …

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