Janitors are an essential part of California’s economy. Janitors clean, sanitize, and maintain buildings and other indoor spaces while being some of the most exploited workers in the service industry. Many private sector janitors earn poverty wages and lack benefits, are routinely misclassified, subjected to wage theft, experience sexual harassment...
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Published in Health science reports
The main purpose of this study was to carry out a global risk analysis (GRA) on the subcontracting circuit to determine and evaluate the risks linked to the future subcontracting process and to propose corrective actions for the most critical risks to ensure safety. This study must allow to conclude in an objective way to the feasibility or not of ...
Published in Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement
Subcontracting long-term care (LTC), whereby facilities contracted with third party agencies to provide care to residents, became widespread in British Columbia after 2002. This qualitative study aimed to understand the impact of subcontracting from the perspective of care workers. We interviewed 11 care workers employed in subcontracted facilities...
In recent years, there has been growing attention for human rights in global supply chains. In addition to having a duty to offer protection against adverse human rights impacts caused by companies, governments have to promote respect for human rights in public procurement. But what does this mean in practice? This report starts with a critical ass...
In current supply chains, the context of subcontracting is majorly connected to unauthorised subcontracting with negative conjunction which has created the fear of discussing subcontracting. However, previous research presents subcontracting as a common practice within fashion and apparel supply chains, however, nearly no study has focused on elabo...
De nombreuses recherches ont montré que la sous-traitance produit des rapports de domination entre donneur d’ordre et sous-traitant et se traduit, pour la main-d’œuvre prestataire, par des salaires moins élevés et des conditions de travail dégradées. Prenant appui sur le cadre théorique de Joan Acker sur les organisations genrées, cet article se pr...
This comment analyses the jurisprudential solutions —judgment of 25 September 2020— and legal solutions —Law 12/2021, of 28 September— dispensed with the existing controversy over the legal nature that should be attributed to the activity of distribution through digital platforms, with special emphasis on the presumption of the existence of a labou...
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Since the end of the last century, the doctrine and jurisprudence have been outlining the legal limits of the new business practices aimed at nullifying the effects of the exercise of the strike, all of them included in the concept of strike strike. The current regulation of this fundamental right is scarce and dates back to 1977. This implies that...
