Traditionally, the impacts of the rights of financial institutions and workers on corporate performance have been analyzed independently. Yet, theory clearly indicates that the combination of relative powers of different stakeholders affects a firm overall performance. Using U.S. state level and...

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government sought to issue an emergency temporary standard through its federal agency, OSHA, as a way to mandate employers with 100+ employees to create policy that will mandate those employees to become vaccinated or submit to weekly...

The article presents an analysis of the provisions of Directives 93/104/EC and 2003/88 and of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which supports the conclusion that the characteristic features of working time must be cumulatively met so that a time frame falls within this...

The article presents the particular problems encountered in the process ofdelimiting working time from rest time in the case of workers who, due to the specificnature of their work and its organization, imposed by the employer, reside at theworkplace, in which casethe question arises whether and...

French abstract: L'article analyse la délimitation du temps de travail par rapport au temps de repos du point de vue des dispositions de la Charte sociale européenne adoptée à Turin en 1961 et des solutions prononcées par le Comité européen des Droits sociaux. En même temps, la force...

The specificity of the collaborative economy has raised a number of issues with regard to the qualification of legal relationships between workers, final beneficiaries and the online platform that mediates the provision of work, respectively whether between the platform and the worker there is...

The living wage standard has emerged as a norm in global initiatives targeting supply chain labor practices. This is unexpected, because the living wage, if actually paid, could impose substantial new supply chain costs. There is also considerable disagreement on how to calculate a living wage...

Unfunded employee pension obligations will present a serious fiscal problem to state and local governments in the not too distant future. This article takes a looks at the causes and potential cures for the public pension mess, mainly through the lens of legal doctrines that limit public...

Weak economic growth and the resultant financial pressures have made post-retirement benefits a tempting target for cutbacks, in both the private and public sectors. Unlike pensions themselves, ancillary retirement benefits such as supplementary medical coverage are often vaguely defined. If...

This paper is about a set of interrelated labour law initiatives called quot;supply chain regulation.quot; This set of labour law initiatives signal the progressive transcendence of direct employment as a focus of labour law. Supply chain regulation originated as a response to the exploitation...