Shaping the Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights at Work
Sexual and reproductive health rights are not normally thought of as materialising in the workplace, but there ...
Labour Rights
What employees need to know about their rights during COVID
Since the start of the global COVID pandemic, many employees have experienced upheaval, uncertainty, and disruption
Xinjiang Cotton and Corporate Criminal Liability under Hong Kong’s National Security Law
In recent months, rights experts have voiced increasing concern over reports of widespread human rights abuses and ...
Mencap and Uber in the Supreme Court: Working Time Regulation in an Era of Casualisation
In recent weeks, two long-awaited UK Supreme Court judgments have offered strikingly divergent reflections on the ...
Saudi Arabia must protect financial rights of migrant workers
On 14 March, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, long known for the oppressive treatment of foreign workers, enacted a law
For Whom the Bell Tolls: “Contract” in the Gig Economy
Are Uber drivers ‘limb (b) workers’ and so entitled to fundamental statutory rights such as the minimum wage and ...
Which workers and which unions can claim protection under freedom of association? The EU-Korea FTA Panel Decision Part II
This blog continues analysis of the EU-Korea FTA Expert Panel Report, focussing on the significance of the findings
Asserting Jurisdiction to Assess Compliance with ‘Multilateral labour standards and agreements’ – The EU-Korea FTA Panel Decision
On 25 January 2021, the European Union (EU) and the Republic of Korea (Korea) released the Report by a Panel of ...
South African Constitutional Court declares exclusion of domestic workers from occupational injury legislation to be unconstitutional
On 20 November 2020, the South African Constitutional Court delivered judgment in Mahlangu v Minister of Labour ...
A historical precedent: IACtHR recognizes breach of the right to equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of a socioeconomic right on intersectional grounds of gender, poverty and race in Fireworks Factory case
In July 2019, I wrote a blog post introducing the main arguments presented to the Inter-American Court of Human ...
Uber v Heller and the Prospects for a Transnational Judicial Dialogue on the Gig Economy – II
In the coming days, labour lawyers from around the world will be tuning in to watch the arguments in Uber v Aslam. ...
Uber v Heller and the Prospects for a Transnational Judicial Dialogue on the Gig Economy – I
Across the world, Gig employers are now facing a legal reckoning in the highest courts. On 21st July, the issue of ...
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