Working in the UK without a Default Retirement Age: Health, Safety, and the Oldest Workers

With the abolition in the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) of the Default Retirement Age in the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1069), this article reviews various …

Gender and income equality in the Russian workplace

This article examines gender discrimination in Russia. Specifically, it mentions that two-fifths of senior management positions in Russian companies are filled by women. Women are mostly active in information technology, …

France: Cour de Cassation, Chambre Sociale, March 3, 2015, 13-23.521

Procedure explanation: Highest Court in Labor Law Matters. All other courts must follow its ruling. In this case, a female employee saw her responsibilities and functions reduced when she came …

From kin to contract: labour, work and the production of authority in rural Mongolia

A study on pastoral labour, which is common in Mongolia but largely governed by local customs rather than labour law. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2014.974569?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Mongolia: Regulation on Workplace Fee, its Deduction and Exemption

This is a regulation adopted by the Government Resolution No.41 dated February 2, 2015 in accordance with the Law on Sending Work Force Abroad and Receiving Work Force and Specialists …

Trade Union Responses to Labour Immigrants: Selective Solidarity

This article is related to the migrant workers’ situation in Finland. This qualitative case study analyses the outcomes of the union’s strategies in questions related to immigration. The outcomes affect …

Trade Unions, immigration and immigrants in Europe revisited: Unions’ attitudes and actions under new conditions

This paper is a follow-up report of the authors’ comparative approach used in their book “Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993. New York: Berghahn Books.”  The report examines trade …

Italy: Il Centro Studi Diritti & Lavoro Monthly Newsletters 2015

The Il Centro Studi Diritti & Lavoro is a legal research initiative in Italy founded by Fabio Rusconi and Andrea Danilo Conte. This is the compilation of the Italian language monthly newsletters …

Mongolia: Survey on Implementation Status of the Collective Agreements and Collective Bargaining

This is the first extensive research on collective agreements and collective bargaining implementation in Mongolia. The research examined the implementation of laws and practice of collective bargaining and collective agreements. …

OECD Case: PWT Group’s role in the Rana Plaza collapse

NCPs involved: Danish Business Authority Erhvervsstyrelsen COUNTRY OF OPERATIONS: Bangladesh DATE: 12 December 2014 STATUS: Concluded ISSUE: The complaint alleged that PWT Group failed to carry out due diligence regarding …

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