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Labor Exploitation
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Ohio Employer Law Blog
The 8th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Passport Pilferer
An agricultural labor contractor recruited five Guatemalan farmworkers under the H-2A visa program, charged them an illegal $2,500 annual fee to work, confiscated their passports, and threatened to have them…
Leiden Law Blog
An ultimatum for the meat industry
In many Western European countries, the meat-processing sector depends heavily on a vulnerable workforce that is poorly protected by anti-human trafficking policies. Is the tide turning? The meat industry and…
Inside Jobs
UK Government launches the Fair Work Agency: What do employment and business and human rights specialists need to know?
By Chris Bracebridge, Antonio Michaelides, Hannah Edmonds-Camara, Salena Mann, Emma Sawatzky, Richard Rowlands, Pimara Soongswang
On April 7, 2026, the Fair Work Agency (“FWA”) was established as a new single enforcement body for employment rights in the UK, operating under the framework set out in…
Free Movement Articles
Irregular migration status: a systemic problem
From politicians to the media, there is a prevailing narrative that migrants with irregular status have chosen to commit some personal, even moral, failure. If only migrants did the right…
Law and Religion Australia
Unfair Gig Economy? Unexpected Generosity – Newcastle City Legal Breakfast event
By Neilfoster
You may have come across some shocking examples of worker exploitation in Australia’s “gig economy”, but you’ve probably never heard of an employer’s unexpected generosity causing resentment amongst their workers. Come along…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Mexico Amends Human Trafficking Law to Include Excess Work Shifts as a Crime of Labor Exploitation
By Publisher, Nora M. Villalpando Badillo, Mauricio Romero Alpuche
Quick Hits Mexico’s Human Trafficking Law has been amended to define overtime work generated beyond legal limits as a form of labor exploitation. When overtime is generated, employers will have…
CCN Mexico Report™
Mexico Approves Amendments Regarding Labor Exploitation
By Pablo Saenz B., Francisco Peña, Javier Zapata
On June 8, 2024, an amendment to the General Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Crimes in Connection with Human Trafficking and for the Protection and Assistance to Victims of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: (Hidden) in Plain Sight: Migrant Child Labor and the New Economy of Exploitation by Shefali Milczarek-Desai
(Hidden) in Plain Sight: Migrant Child Labor and the New Economy of Exploitation by Shefali Milczarek-Desai, Arkansas Law Review, forthcoming June 2024AbstractMigrant child labor pervades supply chains for America’s most beloved…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant Child Labor Exploitation coming under government scrutiny
Investigations by the NY Times and Reuters reveal that the US has been aware of child labor in immigrant families, but it has rarely acted on it. Hannah Dreier for…
Law Times News
Ontario proposes highest maximum fines in Canada for withholding foreign workers’ passports
Province said the proposed law would strengthen protections for migrant workers