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The companies include Huafu Fashion Co., one of the world's largest textile manufacturers, and 25 of its subsidiaries, which the U.S. has linked to forced-labor practices in China's cotton industry.
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is a United States federal law that changed U.S. policy on China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR, or Xinjiang) with the goal of ensuring that American entities are not funding forced labor among ethnic minorities in the region. It was signed into law in December 2021 and took effect in June 2022.
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As a result, poor countries implement a lower labor rights standard to compete with other countries. Layna Mosley's study shows that collective labor rights have declined since the recent global expansion started. [21] By having multiple countries sign agreements and treaties, labor rights are able to be protected across the globe. However ...
If a worker from America performs part of her job in Brazil, China and Denmark (a "peripatetic" worker) or if a worker is engaged in Ecuador to work as an expatriate abroad in France, an employer may seek to characterise the contract of employment as being governed by the law of the country where labour rights are least favourable to the worker ...
Journalist Brigid Schulte examines the new “right to disconnect” efforts in California and around the globe that aim to give workers the prerogative to ignore work messages after hours ...
United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the " inequality of bargaining power " between employees and employers, especially employers "organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association". [ 3 ]
Chloe East, an associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver who has studied immigration policy, said the US labor market is dependent on foreign-born workers for certain jobs.