Category: Public Sector

Framework Agreement for Telework in Public Service (France)

Here is the full framework agreement: https://www.unsa-fp.org/resources/upload/20210713/60ed8ecd6d47d.pdf

Transgender job quota law seen ‘changing lives’ in Argentina

A law reserving 1% of Argentina’s public sector jobs for transgender people will transform everyday life for the country’s trans community, LGBT+ activists said on Friday after Congress gave final …

Public Sector, Trade Union Rights

ECtHR Judgment: Melike v. Turkey

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey breached Art. 10 of the Convention in terminating a public sector employee for ‘disturbing the peace’ who ‘liked’ 3rd party Facebook posts …

Public Sector, Trade Union Rights

Germany enters into collective agreement with public sector unions

Germany has a pay agreement with public sector unions that includes around 2.3 million workers employed by municipalities and the federal administration. The Verdi union and public employers said they …

Other, Public Sector, Supply Chains, Trade Union Rights, Transnational Bargaining

Guía para la exigibilidad de los derechos laborales y ambientales. En el marco de los acuerdos comerciales suscritos por Perú

El Programa de Empresas y Derechos Humanos del Centro de Políticas Públicas y Derechos Humanos (Perú EQUIDAD), pone esta guía en manos de dirigentes sindicales y trabajadores, activistas sociales, lideres …

Discrimination, Public Sector

RONDA L. DAVIS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Defendant.

[1] Disparate Impact A class of former employees of the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency may proceed with their claim that they were laid off during a reduction …

Discrimination, Public Sector

Black D.C. City Workers Advance Civil Rights Claim Over Layoffs

Black former employees of the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency who lost their jobs during a reduction in force offered enough details and data to proceed with …

Gender-Based Violence and Harassment, Informal Economy, Public Sector

No #MeToo for Women Like Us” Poor Enforcement of India’s Sexual Harassment Law

“In 1992, Bhanwari Devi, a government social worker in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, was gang-raped in front of her husband by higher caste neighbors angered by her efforts …

HRW, Jayshree Bajoria

Public Sector, Trade Union Rights

Peru Gobierno pretende restringir el derecho a la Negociación Colectiva en el Sector Público mediante la prórroga del Decreto de Urgencia No. 014 de 2020

Peru Gobierno pretende restringir el derecho a la NegociaciónColectiva en el Sector Público mediante la prórroga del Decreto de Urgencia No. 014 de 2020 que reglamenta y restringe la negociación …

COVID 19, OSH, Public Sector, Trade Union Rights

Brazil’s public sector hit with lawsuits for COVID-19 labor abuses

Dozens of local authorities and state-owned companies in Brazil are facing lawsuits accused of failing to protect workers including doctors and nurses from COVID-19, data obtained exclusively by the Thomson …