This research assessed the feasibility of setting up a cooperative initiative that would address challenges that engineering and construction companies face to uphold workers’ rights in their operations and subcontracting supply chains.
The main findings suggest that companies share many of the same challenges, including the risks related to the recruitment process, working conditions, legislation on labour migration and freedom of association in some countries of operation that further restrict workers’ rights, limited oversight of subcontractors’ practices.
Garment workers, mostly women, earn some of the lowest wages in the world while making clothes for some of the biggest fashion brands. Romania has about 300,000 oficial garment workers, who usually earn a minimum wage of about 230 EUR after tax. Wor...Read More
The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL or the Department) has produced this tenth edition of the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor in accordance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), as amended. Th...Read More
The drive to prevent and respond to child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) is widespread and there have been efforts to highlight CSEA’s global threat, to clear the path for victim-survivors to speak-up and to build the capacity of those worki...Read More
This article examines Canada’s federal Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) from the perspective of international human-rights and labour norms pertaining to the protection of migrant workers. Showing that the current legal framework of the LCP restric...Read More
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