In 2021, Canada saw significant statutory and case law developments in labour and employment law, some of which related to COVID-19. This Insight provides an overview of key 2021 developments, with ...

Starbucks has agreed pay more than $35m (£26m) to thousands of workers in New York City, to settle the city's claims that the ...

This past December, the US Department of Labor (DoL), headed by Democrat Marty Walsh, reported the death toll of workers killed on the job had precipitously increased by 8.9 percent in 2021 to 5,190.

Jan 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world is set to boost efforts to stop children working as 2021 marks the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, amid concerns that COVID-19 ...

On November 10, 2021, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force updated its Guidance for Federal Contractors (“Guidance”). As discussed in earlier updates, all federal contracts meeting certain criteria ...

U.N. deadline to end child labour fast approaching COVID-19 pandemic puts brakes on global progress 'Green' demand for cobalt seen as new mining risk Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Ivorian ...

Was 2021 the labor movement's year? It certainly felt like it — thousands of workers went on strike this year, at numbers considerably higher than in 2020. But in the context of American labor history ...

After meeting trade union representatives, minister says it was decided to ask Centre to withdraw implementation of the codes ...

The unemployment rate for 15 to 65-year-olds reached 5.3% in the third quarter of this year, up 0.8 percentage points from ...