Paid domestic work and the struggles of care workers in Latin America

The authors compare the working conditions of domestic workers in Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0011392118765259

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UK: “Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers’ Initiative Within and Outside Trade Unions”

In this article, the authors explore the experiences of low-paid Latin-American workers in London. They examine how established trade unions have sought to represent these workers, using conventional organizing strategies, …

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Rebalancing Worker Rights and Property Rights in Digitalised Work

This chapter examines how companies appeal to property rights to limit the scope of labour legislation, focusing on disputes over employment status involving service work and work coordinated through digital …

The Employment Law Review – Ghana

This article provides an overview of the employment legal regime in Ghana. The author discusses the sources of labor law, elements of an employment relationship, wages and overtime, foreign workers, …

Article: “Understanding the administrative regulation on occupational health and trend in China”

This article discusses China’s regulatory framework in the field of occupational diseases. China’s Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Law was enacted in 2001, and the latest revision was in 2018. …

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The Global Governance of Paid Domestic Work: Comparing the Impact of ILO Convention No. 189 in Ecuador and India

The article explains the situation of domestic workers in Ecuador through the years and how their situation has changed, comparing it with the experience in India, after the ILO Convention …

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India: Protecting labor rights in preferential trade agreements: The role of trade unions, left governments, and skilled labor

This paper analyses the role of trade unions for the protection of worker’s rights and working conditions, and its impact on the inclusion of labor provisions in the preferential trade …

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FUNDAMENTAL LABOUR RIGHTS, PLATFORM WORK AND HUMAN-RIGHTS PROTECTION OF NONSTANDARD WORKERS

The spread of non-standard forms of employment in industrialised and developing countries over the last decades has prompted an extensive debate on how to reshape labour regulation to accommodate these …

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India’s Law on Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

The research paper examines India’s legal framework to prevent sexual harassment at the workplace from its conception in 1999 where the Supreme Court, recognizing legislative vacuum, framed guidelines that formed …

Implementing & Administering a Successful Social Compliance Program

This article for the New York City Bar is quite pervasive into the world of “transparency” in supply chain accountability. It is a broad overview of the timeline of large …

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