Pressure builds on Uber and Lyft under California’s gig worker law

If there were any doubt that California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra and his fellow regulators were getting fed up with the continued flouting by Uber and Lyft of the state’s …

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México ratifica el Convenio 189 de la OIT sobre trabajo doméstico

México continúa en el avance hacia una legislación laboral garantista, ratificando el pasado 03 de julio el Convenio 189 de la OIT, sobre los trabajadores y las trabajadoras domésticas. Con …

How the American Worker Got Fleeced

“Amazon.com Inc. fired Emily Cunningham a little before the end of Good Friday, though the human resources rep put it a little differently. “You have ended your relationship with Amazon,” …

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Brandeis professor develops tool to help laid off Canadians determine severance

Over the past several years, associate professor of mathematics Jonathan Touboul and several of his colleagues in Canada have used artificial intelligence to analyze court rulings in Canada’s labor law cases. They …

MORE TROUBLE AHEAD FOR THE ATS? SCOTUS GRANTS CERT IN NESTLE CASE

“Both the alleged facts in John Doe I et al v. Nestlé (forced child labor in the supply chains of giant chocolate brands) and the contours of the law under …

US Department of State, Treasury,Commerce and Homeland Security: Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory

The U.S. Department of State, along with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a business advisory to …

Colombia: COVID-19 Additional Bulletins

Here are additional bulletins providing information on and analyzing the situation of COVID-19 in Colombia, all are in Spanish. Boletin No. 3 – Observatorio Laboral Plataforma Boletin No. 4 – Observatorio …

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LOCAL JOINT EXECUTIVE BOARD OF LAS VEGAS v. HARRAH’S LAS VEGAS LLC; THE SIGNATURE CONDOMINIUMS LLC; BELLAGIO LLC,

Here is the COMPLAINT, filed by the culinary workers union in Las Vegas, Nevada against three restaurants at major Las Vegas casinos for the failure of the employer to protect …

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Fight over COVID-19 workplace rules moves to states

The battle over workplace safety rules during the coronavirus is spreading to states. Virginia this week took a major step toward creating its own set of safety rules for workplaces …

Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller

Here is the decision from the Canadian Supreme Court finding the arbitration clause of Uber’s contracts to be invalid: https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/18406/index.do The Supreme Court found that a court may depart from the …

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