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UK Employment Rights Act 2025: Collective And Trade Union Rights - May 2026 (UPDATED)

The 2025 Act steps up enforcement, with the new Fair Work Agency, stronger record-keeping duties and an extended window for tribunal claims....By: A&O Shearman

Paul Nowak column: ‘It’s time for Labour to shout about workers’ rights from the rooftops’

One of the key achievements of this Labour government has been the Employment Rights Act (ERA), which will… The post Paul Nowak column: ‘It’s time for Labour to shout about workers...

Rights group urges binding gig worker protections in ILO platform work treaty

Platform workers around the world experience long hours, unpredictable and declining pay, and serious safety risks as platform companies sidestep labor protections, Human Rights Wa...

ARGENTINA: ‘Under the New Law, Workers Have No Real Scope to Defend Their Rights’

CIVICUS discusses recent regressive changes to Argentina’s labour laws with Facundo Merlán Rey, an activist with the Coordination Against Police and Institutional Repression (CORRE...

N.S. advocacy groups, opposition calling for more workers’ rights protections

Opposition parties in Nova Scotia and some advocacy organizations are calling for the province to do more to protect workers' rights and improve labour conditions.

International Court of Justice Recognizes the Right to Strike

On May 21, 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a non-binding, but significant and highly-anticipated, ruling that Convention 87 of the International Labour Organi...

Top UN court rules workers’ right to strike ‘protected’ in key treaty 

News|Workers’ Rights The top United Nations court has ruled that workers and unions have the right to strike under...

Right to strike protected under key labour treaty, says UN World Court

The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday ruled that the right to strike is protected under a core International Labour Organization (ILO) convention, in a landmark a...

After Fighting for the Rights of Workers, Brazil’s President Lula Faces a Labor Abuse Crisis

The dismissal of Brazil’s top labor inspector has landed the leftist government of President Lula, a former union leader, in an awkward spot.

Get set for employees and unions to be granted stronger rights

Michael McLaughlin on employment changes​ and the food and drink industry

ILO Labor Treaty Should Protect All Gig Workers

Click to expand Image Delivery workers driving through New Delhi, India, 2026....

ICJ affirms global right to strike, but India remains exempt without ILO pact ratification

Although ratified by 158 countries and guaranteeing workers the right ‘in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities,’ the convention does not explicitly mention...

Rest still a favour, not a right, for retail-staff in Chennai

Five years after Tamil Nadu legislated on the ‘right to sit’ provision within the Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishments Act, 1947, the law remains a luxury for many. From high-end co...

Righs group condemns forced labor in Sri Lanka

Amnesty International on Wednesday released a report alleging that tea workers on private estates in Sri Lanka are being subjected to conditions that “may amount to forced labour,”...

The ICJ Upholds Right to Strike in Landmark Opinion

Last week the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered, by ten votes to four, the advisory opinion that workers’ organizations have awaited for fourteen years. The right to s...

Taiwan is wrestling a labor rights conundrum

Levi’s faces legal challenge over labor claims

Worker rights campaigners have taken legal action against Levi Strauss & Co. in the Netherlands, alleging the company misled consumers about labor conditions in its supply...

Formalising labour

A bill that protects domestic workers only works if those workers feel safe enough to actually use it

Will Your Workers Walk Out on May 1? Employers’ Guide to Your Rights and Responsibilities During Protest Activity

A coalition of activist and labor groups is calling for a nationwide “no work, no school, no shopping” action on May 1 (International Workers’ Day) framed by some organizers as a g...

UN court affirms international labor treaty protects workers right to strike

The International Court of Justice opined Thursday that an international labor treaty protects the right to strike. The advisory opinion provides clarity to the treaty provisions,...

Forced Labor: A Human Rights Travesty that Suppresses Wages Everywhere

AAM offers comments on USTR's Section 301 investigation into weak international prohibitions against goods made by forced labor.

Workers’ rights protection top priority of KP government: Faisal Tarakai

April 22, 2026

Congress introduces a labor rights notification bill; New York's ban on credit checks in hiring takes effect; Harvard's graduate student workers go on strike.