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Instead of addressing our concerns, our legitimate concerns instead, they turn toward investigating me. And I was instrumental in leading the group. So I think that clearly they were trying to chill [the] activity of workers and that should scare every worker across the country.

The European Court of Justice found that the Hungarian legislation runs contrary to EU law on a number of separate levels, marking a significant legal precedent.

The Supreme Court said the case highlighted the application of free speech laws in Sweden. The statements made by the bank director in the interviews were responses to questions of an investigative journalistic nature.

Derek Tierney, who was assistant secretary general at the Department of Health overseeing areas such as health building construction, has been appointed to take over its running for seven years after the end of Mr Watt's term.

Racial discrimination is illegal, and government contractors cannot evade the law by repackaging it as DEI. The Department launched the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative to root out this misconduct, hold offenders accountable, and end this practice for good.

"The clothing works with me, like another colleague," wrote the shunting attendant on the blog of the Cologne-based workwear manufacturer Bierbaum-Proenen.

For decades, work was designed around a fiction, that of the 'neutral' worker, an abstract individual assumed to be fully available, consistent, rational, and unaffected by bodily constraints. But this neutrality was never real.

Caregiving strain is the cognitive, emotional, and logistical burden of coordinating care for children, parents, or other dependents, and it was found to be the most powerful predictor of workforce exit.

Companies with a higher number of women in senior roles are significantly more likely to dismiss male perpetrators of abuse against female colleagues, according to recent analysis.

It has become increasingly clear how great the challenges are in implementing the directive in a national context, both for us in Sweden and in other EU countries. Therefore, a relaunch at EU level is needed and we are now taking the initiative to do so.

Yesterday, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the results of a joint study detailing the close connection between illicit trade in counterfeits and labor exploitation. The joint study shows clear, repeated associations between the intensity of counterfeit trade and abusive labor conditions, strongly suggesting that such conditions structurally enable the production and distribution of counterfeits.

knowingly disguised an employment relationship as a business contract to evade its obligations as an employer

Yesterday (Jan. 20), the Commission unveiled its revised Cybersecurity Act proposal after months of behind-the-scenes negotiations that reportedly caused substantial friction between officials and member states. This sweeping update introduces measures to identify and potentially exclude "high-risk" third countries and companies from Europe's critical digital infrastructure across 18 essential sectors, including energy systems. As cybersecurity threats continue rising since the original Act took effect seven years ago, the EU is essentially drawing new battle lines in the global tech landscape.

The EU's European Commission said Tuesday that it has opened "formal proceedings" against Shein under the Digital Services Act, which sets ground rules for online services that Europeans use. In the announcement, the commission says it is targeting Shein over worries that the shopping platform is addictive by design, powered by opaque algorithms, and engages in the sale of illegal goods, including weapons and child sexual abuse material in the form of "child-like sex dolls."