Short Time Work Measures Across Europe (COVID-19)

Throughout Europe trade unions are negotiating short time work schemes with both employers and governments so that workers are not let go during the COVID-19 lockdown but instead continue to …

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Frontline supermarkets: unions team up with businesses to boost Austria’s COVID-19 containment efforts

Austria is in lockdown but its supermarkets are anything but. Ensuring that people have safe access to essential goods is central to our collective efforts to contain COVID-19. That’s why …

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New labor law could threaten workers’ rights, but state firms happy

Ukrainian employers – especially the country’s largest state-owned enterprises – would like the current labor code replaced so that they can fire and hire workers much more easily. They say …

ETUC Briefing Note: National measures to avoid collective/individual lay-offs (incl. granting (additional/special) leaves)

This briefing note focuses on strategies to avoid worker lay offs and to ensure alternatives such as ‘short-term work schemes,’ teleworking, etc. to avoid a complete loss of wages. This …

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Fact Sheet: Worker-Related Rights Decisions from European Court of Human Rights

This factsheet provides brief summaries of cases and decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights on worker-related rights issues.

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IWGB to sue UK government over its failure to protect precarious workers

The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is taking legal action against the government over its failure to protect the wages and jobs of millions of workers during the …

Ukraine: Unprotected freelancers wait for laws to formalize relationship with employer

Denys Nesteryak, 20, works as a courier for food delivery company Glovo. When he decides to start his working day, he launches a mobile app, receives an order, jumps on …

Free Speech and Strike Action

Two UK law professors, Alan Bogg and Virginia Mantouvalou,  published an article in the UK Labour Law Blog discussing how the exercise of the right to strike is fundamentally an …

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Norway: A comprehensive overview of all emergency measures 20 March

Political agreement between the the political partieson the first phase financial emergency measures to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Norway. https://www.lo.no/language/english/english-news/corona/    

Worker-Driven Social Responsibility: Exploring a New Model for Tackling Labour Abuse in Supply Chains

This scoping report explores a new model for tackling workplace abuse and exploitation in corporate supply chains, called ‘Worker-driven Social Responsibility’ (WSR). It aims to increase understanding and knowledge of …

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