Universal Rights | Workers Rights

2012-05-15: Headlines

  • OMB Watch: Big Business Suing to Stop Notices Informing Workers of Their Right to Organize 2012-05-15
    Under the National Labor Relations Act and international human rights law, employees have the right to form or join unions and to bargain collectively. Congress established the NLRB in 1935 to protect those rights and to enforce fair practices by employers and unions. | However, many workers are unaware of these rights or that the NLRB will protect them if they exercise these rights.

2012-05-14: Headlines

  • Oman News Agency: Manpower Minister / Seminar 2012-05-14
    Keywords: Manpower Minister / Seminar | | Muscat, 14 May (ONA) ---Manpower Ministry organized at Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) HQs' a seminar under the theme ' TriPartite on Enhancing the Legal and Institutional Framework for Social Dialogue ' under the auspices of Dr. Yahya bin Nasser al-Khusaibi, Undersecretary of the Legal Affairs Ministry.
  • Oman Daily Observer: Social dialogue makes headway 2012-05-14
    The seminar aims at introducing the basic conventions (Cs) namely C87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize , C98 Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention and C144 Tripartite Consultation. The seminar also aimed...

2012-05-09: Headlines

  • The Hill: Legal scholar warns antitrust suit against Google would stifle free speech 2012-05-09
    Brendan Sasso: Google has the same right to organize its search results as a newspaper has to decide which stories to cover, according to legal scholar Eugene Volokh. | Volokh co-authored the paper with attorney Donald Falk on behalf of Google. | Whether Google actually boosts its own services is a complicated and disputed issue, but Volokh argued that search engines have a constitutional right to organize their results however they want.

2012-05-06: Headlines

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