Moving Toward Shared Responsibility: How the EU’s CSDDD and Omnibus I Reimagine Contracting for Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence

For decades, the legal architecture for managing human rights and environmental (HRE) risks in global supply chains has relied on a practice we call ‘risk-shifting’. In this model, lead firms use …

Fixing a labour justice system that fails workers

On May 1, as the world marks International Workers’ Day, the promise of justice for workers in Bangladesh deserves renewed attention. At the centre of that promise stand the country’s …

Employers Should Choose a Lane

mazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island are caught in a labor-law no-man’s land. Amazon has challenged the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in federal court, …

Compensation falls short and fails workers, it must change

In conversation with AKM Nasim, Country Programme Director at Solidarity Center Bangladesh and a former member of the Labour Reform Commission. What provisions currently exist in Bangladesh’s labour laws and …

How Dispute Resolution is Shaping Human Rights Expectations of Companies: Judicial Reference to UNGPs, OECD Guidelines

After two days spent hearing from experts in fields from private practice to politics and academia, the final session of the BHRLA conference exemplified the theme of “navigating change” underpinning …

Jueces laborales contra la libertad sindical

La reforma laboral de 2019 ha traído avances importantes en materia colectiva, pero también muchos retrocesos. Se han incrementado en los juzgados laborales en materia colectiva criterios con apariencia de justicia pero que obstaculizan la libertad sindical en materia …

Labour law and epistemic injustice

In this blog, I wish to set out the importance of considerations of epistemic (in)justice to labour law: the capacity of workers and employers as knowing subjects. This continues the …

Quand les travailleurs lèvent le voile sur les entreprises : l'innovation oubliée du Brésil

Demandez à n'importe quel spécialiste du droit des sociétés quelles sont les origines du droit des groupes de sociétés, et il vous répondra probablement l'Allemagne. Le Konzernrecht allemand, codifié en 1965, est considéré comme le cadre pionnier en matière de...

La déréglementation des droits des travailleurs ne sauvera pas l'industrie européenne, elle ne fera qu'aggraver la crise

La base industrielle européenne est soumise à une pression énorme. Des produits chimiques aux métaux en passant par les composants automobiles, les entreprises réduisent leur production ou ferment complètement leurs portes alors qu'elles sont confrontées aux mêmes problèmes structurels...

Will the European Union Protect Workers from Deadly Heat?

Last 10 December, the Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work (ACSH)—the tripartite body that assists the European Commission in preparing, implementing, and evaluating occupational safety and health (OSH) policy—issued its …