Sandhya
@sandhyatwilight.bsky.social
Labour Lawyer, Barrister; Senior Lecturer, City SG, Visiting Professor, Paris X; Hon Adj Professor Jindal Global University, Senior Fellow Centre for Legal Empowerment of the Poor; Governor, St Georges. Love swimming, family (inc our refuge-seeking cat).
reposting for anyone who is thinking about supply chains and can make it to Parliament on 8 July 3pm House of Lords Committee Room 1.
Thrilled to be chairing this report launch and panel event at Parliament on 8 July 3-5pm on deaths from silicosis at the start of Rajasthani stone chains. What can be done to prevent this? Panel: Report author, the CEO of stone importer, and Indian NGO. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/budhpura-2...
Budhpura 20 years on: Report Launch
This is the launch of a report into working conditions down supply chains of Rajasthani pink sandstone.
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June 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
reposting for anyone who is thinking about supply chains and can make it to Parliament on 8 July 3pm House of Lords Committee Room 1.
Thrilled to be chairing this report launch and panel event at Parliament on 8 July 3-5pm on deaths from silicosis at the start of Rajasthani stone chains. What can be done to prevent this? Panel: Report author, the CEO of stone importer, and Indian NGO. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/budhpura-2...
Budhpura 20 years on: Report Launch
This is the launch of a report into working conditions down supply chains of Rajasthani pink sandstone.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Thrilled to be chairing this report launch and panel event at Parliament on 8 July 3-5pm on deaths from silicosis at the start of Rajasthani stone chains. What can be done to prevent this? Panel: Report author, the CEO of stone importer, and Indian NGO. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/budhpura-2...
We were very happy to have given our paper its first outing in Liverpool at the wonderful SLSA conference. Lots of great reflections and questions, thank you for organising!
Next, Marcus Soanes & Sandhya Drew on 'Seafarers' Wages and the Race to the Bottom', discussing seafarers as the original gig workers.
April 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We were very happy to have given our paper its first outing in Liverpool at the wonderful SLSA conference. Lots of great reflections and questions, thank you for organising!
Reintroduction of questionnaires in equality cases. Significant. Practical and effective.
March 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reintroduction of questionnaires in equality cases. Significant. Practical and effective.
Stellar panel discussing The Minimum Wage: Tool of Emancipation or Tool of Coercion? This Thursday, 6 March. Come to City in Clerkenwell this Thursday at 4pm for Panel presentations, discussion after and evening drinks. All are welcome. Map on event page. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Minimum wage: tool of emancipation or tool of coercion? | City St George's, University of London
This panel discussion explores the concept of the minimum wage, focusing on the extent to which it is a tool of emancipation or a tool of coercion.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Stellar panel discussing The Minimum Wage: Tool of Emancipation or Tool of Coercion? This Thursday, 6 March. Come to City in Clerkenwell this Thursday at 4pm for Panel presentations, discussion after and evening drinks. All are welcome. Map on event page. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Happy this is out. Thank you to all who patiently listened and generously suggested improvements. All are remembered. academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...
Safe in Leicester Town?1 Law’s Reach to Those Working for Less Than the National Minimum Wage
Abstract. This article examines the origins of paragraph 2.42 of the guidance issued under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which concerns identification. It t
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March 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy this is out. Thank you to all who patiently listened and generously suggested improvements. All are remembered. academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...
The old 'Brits are the idlers of the world' trope resurfaces, last used by Liz Truss in her 'book'. A sure vote-winner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Britons need better work ethic, says senior Tory MP Chris Philp
The shadow home secretary says the UK is in a global race and everyone needs to make a contribution.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The old 'Brits are the idlers of the world' trope resurfaces, last used by Liz Truss in her 'book'. A sure vote-winner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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📢 Mass Protest in India on 5 February! 🇮🇳✊
Indian workers are taking to the streets to demand fair wages, secure jobs, and labour rights. Unions across the country are mobilizing against exploitative policies and corporate greed.
👇👇🏽
www.industriall-union.org/indian-worke...
Indian workers are taking to the streets to demand fair wages, secure jobs, and labour rights. Unions across the country are mobilizing against exploitative policies and corporate greed.
👇👇🏽
www.industriall-union.org/indian-worke...
Indian workers to stage mass protest on 5 February
Ahead of the upcoming budget session, a joint platform of central trade unions, independent sectoral federations, and associations in India has called for nationwide protest actions starting on 5 Febr...
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January 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
📢 Mass Protest in India on 5 February! 🇮🇳✊
Indian workers are taking to the streets to demand fair wages, secure jobs, and labour rights. Unions across the country are mobilizing against exploitative policies and corporate greed.
👇👇🏽
www.industriall-union.org/indian-worke...
Indian workers are taking to the streets to demand fair wages, secure jobs, and labour rights. Unions across the country are mobilizing against exploitative policies and corporate greed.
👇👇🏽
www.industriall-union.org/indian-worke...
In other news, first labour law lecture of the year tomorrow with some actual labour law coming down the line! And (one I have had my eye on) a lovely circular lecture theatre in which to talk to my 190 students about why that is such a good thing.
January 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In other news, first labour law lecture of the year tomorrow with some actual labour law coming down the line! And (one I have had my eye on) a lovely circular lecture theatre in which to talk to my 190 students about why that is such a good thing.
on.ft.com/4hucRpm Good article on the appeal of free trade though tends to lump together in one mass all people in Asia and Africa outside Davos. Armchair may be an appropriate visual...
January 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
on.ft.com/4hucRpm Good article on the appeal of free trade though tends to lump together in one mass all people in Asia and Africa outside Davos. Armchair may be an appropriate visual...
Reposted by Sandhya
27-01-1872 CANADA: A public meeting at the Mechanics' Institute in Hamilton adopts resolutions to reduce the normal working week from 60 to 54 hours. When the Nine Hour League is announced, support grows in a dozen centres, from Sarnia to Montréal. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/n...
Nine Hour Movement
The Nine Hour Movement was an international phenomenon, taking place in Canada between January and June 1872. The movement’s goal was to standardize shorter w...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
27-01-1872 CANADA: A public meeting at the Mechanics' Institute in Hamilton adopts resolutions to reduce the normal working week from 60 to 54 hours. When the Nine Hour League is announced, support grows in a dozen centres, from Sarnia to Montréal. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/n...
Lets listen to them while they are here. scroll.in/article/1078...
Lost shoes and sweet laddoos: Songs of innocence in holocaust memorials
Can fleeting memories of devastating experiences mitigate the inhumanity suffered by victims?
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January 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Lets listen to them while they are here. scroll.in/article/1078...
Ripetetele ai vostri figli.
O vi si sfaccia la casa,
la malattia vi impedisca,
i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.
(Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, illness best you, your descendents turn their faces from you).
O vi si sfaccia la casa,
la malattia vi impedisca,
i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.
(Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, illness best you, your descendents turn their faces from you).
January 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Ripetetele ai vostri figli.
O vi si sfaccia la casa,
la malattia vi impedisca,
i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.
(Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, illness best you, your descendents turn their faces from you).
O vi si sfaccia la casa,
la malattia vi impedisca,
i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.
(Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, illness best you, your descendents turn their faces from you).
Meditate che questo è stato:
vi comando queste parole.
Scolpitele nel vostro cuore
stando in casa andando per via,
coricandovi, alzandovi.
(Stop to think that this has happened; I commend these words to you, carve them into your heart, at home, on the street, at home, on your way, sleeping, waking)
vi comando queste parole.
Scolpitele nel vostro cuore
stando in casa andando per via,
coricandovi, alzandovi.
(Stop to think that this has happened; I commend these words to you, carve them into your heart, at home, on the street, at home, on your way, sleeping, waking)
January 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Meditate che questo è stato:
vi comando queste parole.
Scolpitele nel vostro cuore
stando in casa andando per via,
coricandovi, alzandovi.
(Stop to think that this has happened; I commend these words to you, carve them into your heart, at home, on the street, at home, on your way, sleeping, waking)
vi comando queste parole.
Scolpitele nel vostro cuore
stando in casa andando per via,
coricandovi, alzandovi.
(Stop to think that this has happened; I commend these words to you, carve them into your heart, at home, on the street, at home, on your way, sleeping, waking)
Considerate se questa è una donna,
senza capelli e senza nome
senza più forza di ricordare
vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo
come una rana d'inverno.
(Consider whether this is a woman, without hair or name, without strength left to remember, with empty eyes and cold womb, like a frog in winter)
senza capelli e senza nome
senza più forza di ricordare
vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo
come una rana d'inverno.
(Consider whether this is a woman, without hair or name, without strength left to remember, with empty eyes and cold womb, like a frog in winter)
January 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Considerate se questa è una donna,
senza capelli e senza nome
senza più forza di ricordare
vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo
come una rana d'inverno.
(Consider whether this is a woman, without hair or name, without strength left to remember, with empty eyes and cold womb, like a frog in winter)
senza capelli e senza nome
senza più forza di ricordare
vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo
come una rana d'inverno.
(Consider whether this is a woman, without hair or name, without strength left to remember, with empty eyes and cold womb, like a frog in winter)
Considerate se questo è un uomo
che lavora nel fango
che non conosce pace
che lotta per mezzo pane
che muore per un si o per un no.
(Consider whether this is a man, who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for half a piece of bread, who dies by a yes or a no)
che lavora nel fango
che non conosce pace
che lotta per mezzo pane
che muore per un si o per un no.
(Consider whether this is a man, who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for half a piece of bread, who dies by a yes or a no)
January 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Considerate se questo è un uomo
che lavora nel fango
che non conosce pace
che lotta per mezzo pane
che muore per un si o per un no.
(Consider whether this is a man, who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for half a piece of bread, who dies by a yes or a no)
che lavora nel fango
che non conosce pace
che lotta per mezzo pane
che muore per un si o per un no.
(Consider whether this is a man, who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for half a piece of bread, who dies by a yes or a no)
As we approach 80 years since the red army arrived at Auschwitz, this, from one of its survivors:
Voi che vivete sicuri
nelle vostre tiepide case,
voi che trovate tornando a sera
il cibo caldo e visi amici:
(You, who live safe in your heated houses, who come home to warm food and friendly faces)
Voi che vivete sicuri
nelle vostre tiepide case,
voi che trovate tornando a sera
il cibo caldo e visi amici:
(You, who live safe in your heated houses, who come home to warm food and friendly faces)
January 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
As we approach 80 years since the red army arrived at Auschwitz, this, from one of its survivors:
Voi che vivete sicuri
nelle vostre tiepide case,
voi che trovate tornando a sera
il cibo caldo e visi amici:
(You, who live safe in your heated houses, who come home to warm food and friendly faces)
Voi che vivete sicuri
nelle vostre tiepide case,
voi che trovate tornando a sera
il cibo caldo e visi amici:
(You, who live safe in your heated houses, who come home to warm food and friendly faces)
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So the new classification is:
Billionaires - the bourgeoisie
Millionaires - the proletariat
Everyone else - lumpen
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Billionaires - the bourgeoisie
Millionaires - the proletariat
Everyone else - lumpen
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Influence of super rich on Donald Trump threatens democracy, say Patriotic Millionaires
Pro-tax group tell world leaders that ‘wealth extremism’ is damaging trust in media and influencing legal systems
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
So the new classification is:
Billionaires - the bourgeoisie
Millionaires - the proletariat
Everyone else - lumpen
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Billionaires - the bourgeoisie
Millionaires - the proletariat
Everyone else - lumpen
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This is scary stuff. What is the idea? Give up on the planet and book your ticket to space?
Trump says he will withdraw US from Paris accord after hottest year on record
https://www.ft.com/content/cc7f60ea-6f42-49d0-8fde-5151e170c780
https://www.ft.com/content/cc7f60ea-6f42-49d0-8fde-5151e170c780
Trump says he will withdraw US from Paris accord after hottest year on record
Move deals blow to worldwide efforts to slow global warming
www.ft.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is scary stuff. What is the idea? Give up on the planet and book your ticket to space?
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20-01-1934 GERMANY: The Nazis abolish collective bargaining and union elections. According to the law "the head of the company decides for the employees and workers in any matter concerning the company [...] The workers owe their loyalty to him".
January 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
20-01-1934 GERMANY: The Nazis abolish collective bargaining and union elections. According to the law "the head of the company decides for the employees and workers in any matter concerning the company [...] The workers owe their loyalty to him".
40 years on, still calling it out. My friend and strong-spirited advocate, Indira Jaising SC.
Dec 2/3 is the 40th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, at US-owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. In Sept, I spoke with Indira Jaising, former solicitor general of India, in Bangkok, at UNDP's business and human rights forum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yALU...
Bhopal’s Unfinished Business: The 40-year struggle for accountability
YouTube video by UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum
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January 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
40 years on, still calling it out. My friend and strong-spirited advocate, Indira Jaising SC.
Impressive statistics on 30km/h city speed limit. (18 mph)
#Bologna a 30 km/ora un anno dopo
👉Pedoni deceduti: ZERO
👉Pedoni investiti: -16%
👉Incidenti stradali: -13%
👉Incidenti gravi: -31%
👉Riduzione inquinamento: -29%
👉Bike sharing: +69%
👉Car sharing: +44%
Questi sono i numeri, poi ci sono le chiacchiere (senza distintivo)
#Bologna30
👉Pedoni deceduti: ZERO
👉Pedoni investiti: -16%
👉Incidenti stradali: -13%
👉Incidenti gravi: -31%
👉Riduzione inquinamento: -29%
👉Bike sharing: +69%
👉Car sharing: +44%
Questi sono i numeri, poi ci sono le chiacchiere (senza distintivo)
#Bologna30
January 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Impressive statistics on 30km/h city speed limit. (18 mph)
These thoughts from Felogene Anumo all still hit home.
"The revolution will not be NGO-ised": four lessons from African feminist organising | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/felogene-anumo-and-valerie-bah/four-lessons-african-feminist-organising
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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January 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
These thoughts from Felogene Anumo all still hit home.
AG and Art153. MIsunderstanding of what Directive is trying to do? eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Provisional text
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January 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
AG and Art153. MIsunderstanding of what Directive is trying to do? eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...