nataliesedacca

@nataliesedacca@mastodon.online

Assistant Professor in Employment Law at Durham University, UK. I research labour law and human rights, with a focus on domestic workers and other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. I'm also a trustee for the migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan, and on the Executive Committee of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights. She / her, own views, RTs not endorsements.

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nataliesedacca, to workersrights

The House of Lords has amended the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill to remove the important proposed provisions relating to harassment at work by third parties as well as watering down preventative duties on employers https://www.ier.org.uk/news/house-of-lords-amends-worker-protection-amendment-of-equality-act-2010-bill/

#WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #LabourLaw #Harassment #HumanRights

nataliesedacca, to random

The Cabinet Office went to court to avoid revealing some passages to the Covid inquiry, calling them “unambiguously irrelevant.” Yet the inquiry chair has now ruled they are in fact “relevant” to proceedings and can be made public, after examining them for herself https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-whatsapps-heather-hallett-irrelevant-relevant/?utm_source=oD%20Daily%20SEGMENT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Boris%20Johnson%20WhatsApp%27s%20not%20%E2%80%98irrelevant%E2%80%99%20after%20all&_kx=FrvbCSeEGkUKtfrinILQq9IPNENUJoogQH9MLbWVMcUR70KLOtnAqEaz3AyyBpMU.YjCYwm

#COVID19 #CovidInquiry #Accountability

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

More avoidance of scrutiny. Braverman has told the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration that he will not be reappointed next year. Internal correspondence obtained through FOI shows Home Office officials branded him “excessively critical” https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-suella-braverman-david-neal-excessively-critical-independent-chief-inspector-borders/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=content_studio

#Borders #Immigration #migration #MigrantsRights #HumanRights #HomeOffice #Accountability

nataliesedacca, to random

Controversial rules governing voter identification led to racial and disability discrimination at this year’s local elections in England, according to a damning report co-written by one of the former ministers responsible for introducing them #VoterID #Discrimination #Elections #Racism #Ableism

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

nataliesedacca, to ai

Rather than being human-free machine learning, AI technology “relies on the labour-intensive efforts of a workforce spread across much of the global south and often subject to exploitation” with around 2 million workers in Philippines “digital sweatshops” https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/behind-the-ai-boom-an-army-of-overseas-workers-in-digital-sweatshops-b2401142.html

#AI #WorkersRights #Exploitation #GlobalSouth

nataliesedacca, to workersrights

‘In most industries, a disrupted water supply would lead to an operational standstill. But for Amazon, it was business as usual. Despite workers’ pleas, they were told to remain at their workstations & continue working’ - further reports of practices disregarding health & safety at Amazon https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/09/they-treat-us-worse-than-animals-working-without-water-at-amazon

#WorkersRights #HealthAndSafety #EmploymentLaw #HumanRights #Amazon

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

Terrible news that the UK government’s Northern Ireland Troubles Bill has cleared the House of Commons.

Once passed, it will end all Troubles-related court cases and inquests and offer a conditional amnesty to those accused of killings in return for information about their crimes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66709928

It’s been rejected by victims, victims’ and human rights groups inc Amnesty and the Irish govt https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/northern-ireland-troubles-bill-clearing-house-commons-marks-dark-day-justice

#HumanRights #ireland #NorthernIreland #Troubles #Accountability

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

More than 70 MPs call on Sunak to raise the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, a British man facing the death penalty in India, during G20 summit. PM spokesperson refuses to say whether it will be raised, leading to concerns from his brother of ‘putting trade over human rights’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66722970

#humanrights #India #DeathPenalty #Sunak #trade

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

The home secretary has commissioned a review into ‘political activism’ within policing.

Hard to fathom how fanatical you need to be to look at UK policing and conclude ‘the problem, which we must throw lots of money at investigating, is that people are too progressive’ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/02/home-secretary-orders-review-into-political-activism-within-policing

#Police #BlackLivesMatter #transrights #humanrights

nataliesedacca, to random

Theresa May continues to blame others for the consequences of the hostile environment while stating she regrets the term. But as pointed out here, the govt were fully warned of its dangers the same year that key legislation was implemented. Wendy Williams’ review showed this was a fundamentally flawed approach that would always have resulted in injustices - not simply a case of the ‘wrong’ people being affected https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/31/theresa-may-says-she-regrets-using-term-hostile-environment

#HostileEnvironment #migration #colonialism #Windrush

nataliesedacca, to random

A spate of protests and strikes across government-held areas in southern Syria have continued into their second week. While originally spurred by a rise in fuel prices and anger at economic corruption and mismanagement, they quickly morphed into anti-government demonstrations, including repeated calls for Assad to leave
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/28/syrian-protests-enter-second-week-with-calls-for-assad-to-go

#Syria #protest #strikes

nataliesedacca, to workersrights

Unite and Unison back campaign to exempt strike days from maternity pay calculations, rightly calling the current system where new parents are penalised twice for taking part in industrial action by losing part of maternity pay ‘immoral’ https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/aug/28/uk-unions-say-cutting-maternity-pay-for-striking-pregnant-workers-is-immoral

#EmploymentLaw #Maternity #IndustrialAction #Strikes #WorkersRights

nataliesedacca, to random

The Fire Brigades Union has sent a pre-action judicial review letter over plans to house asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm. It
states that the Home Office has failed to arrange fire drills for asylum seekers or adequate risk assessments of the barge, despite more than doubling the number of planned occupants, creating an ‘inherently unsafe’ situation https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/braverman-plan-to-house-uk-asylum-seekers-on-bibby-stockholm-barge-faces-legal-hurdle

#AsylumSeekers #Refugees #FireSafety #HealthAndSafety #TradeUnions

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

The government uses the idea of a ‘pull factor’ to deny most asylum seekers the right to work, leaving them financially dependent, and now also to justify even more unsuitable accommodation. But research shows it is far from a major reason for destination choice https://theconversation.com/hotels-and-employment-arent-major-pull-factors-for-refugees-heres-what-really-draws-people-to-move-211796

#refugees #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #RightToWork

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

“I want to ask a question of the people who made the decision to put us on the barge. ‘Would you put a member of your family there even for one day?’ We came to the UK to escape persecution but are facing more persecution here.”

Asylum seekers say conditions on Bibby Stockholm barge caused suicide attempt https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/25/asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm-conditions-suicide-attempt

#AsylumSeekers #refugees #humanrights

nataliesedacca, to random

‘Lucy Letby was a mystifying aberration, a serial killer masquerading as a nurse. Yet she exposes an affliction that remains all too virulent in our sanctified health service – a lethal culture of arrogance, denial and inertia that will not be solved by one more inquiry’ - disturbing to read how whistleblowers’ concerns were stifled and dismissed https://inews.co.uk/opinion/lucy-letby-murders-culture-arrogance-inertia-denial-nhs-2559154

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

Papers obtained through an FOI request suggest Israeli embassy officials in London attempted to get the attorney general’s office to intervene in UK court cases relating to the prosecution of protesters https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/20/israeli-embassy-officials-attempted-to-influence-uk-court-cases-documents-suggest

#Protest #humanrights #Palestine #israel

nataliesedacca, to Health

The hostile environment in health: hundreds of migrants have declined NHS treatment after being given upfront charges over the past two years, with multiple cases of charges for urgent or “immediately necessary” treatment that is meant to be excluded from the charging regime https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/20/inhumane-nhs-fees-left-more-than-900-migrants-without-treatment

#Health #HumanRights #Migration #MigrantsRights #HostileEnvironment

nataliesedacca, to humanrights

The UK government has left the role of the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales vacant for a year, and the anti-slavery commissioner for nearly a year and a half - seemingly to avoid criticism of policies that risk sending trafficking victims to Rwanda, while dismantling other protections https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/aug/20/heartless-government-fails-to-fill-two-key-human-rights-watchdog-roles

#Trafficking #ModernSlavery #humanrights

nataliesedacca, to random

Thousands of suspected modern slavery victims have had their cases rejected in a Home Office crackdown on so-called “bogus claims,” putting vulnerable people at risk.

Very concerning, inc example of domestic worker forced to work long hours and abused by her employer, who (as will often be the case) lacked paperwork to prove abuse, having her claim rejected on the basis she had “left” her exploiters rather than escaping.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/modern-slavery-bogus-claims-home-office-b2395289.html

#ModernSlavery #Trafficking #DomesticWork

nataliesedacca, to workersrights

A decent programme on workers’ rights reform was one of the few things the Labour Party had left. Now it has watered down protections for gig economy and probationary workers , despite already being ahead in the polls, to appear more business friendly https://www.ft.com/content/30a8a3f1-c5ad-4b85-bb48-7b7de05470f4

#WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #GigEconomy #LabourParty #Politics

nataliesedacca, to legal

Open letter by legal academics expressing support for Jacqueline McKenzie and all other lawyers targeted by the media, the Conservative Party and members of the UK government for their immigration legal work https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=EE36C0826729A739%2187471&authkey=!AB_AD

ofLaw

nataliesedacca, to history

“People have to accept the unpalatable truth” - an official government inquiry into the Nazi occupation of Alderney has the potential to expose a cover-up of the extent of atrocities taking place in British territory, including possible deaths of hundreds or even thousands of Jews https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/13/the-holocaust-happened-on-british-soil-inquiry-into-nazi-camps-creates-bitter-divide-on-alderney

#Holocaust #Fascism #History

nataliesedacca, to Health

Weeks of the government screaming that of course the Bibby Stockholm barge is safe and anyone suggesting otherwise is an idiot biased lefty lawyer - then days after the first asylum seekers are moved there they have to be evacuated because of potentially deadly bacteria. Their lives have been uprooted and health put at risk for performative cruelty https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/legionella-discovery-forces-asylum-seekers-off-bibby-stockholm-just-days-after-arrival

#AsylumSeekers #refugees #health #humanrights

nataliesedacca, to workersrights

P&O fired 800 seafarers in March 2022, replacing them with agency workers paid below UK minimum wage and admitting it chose not to consult the union despite legal requirements. Ministers have since handed nearly £600,000 of taxpayers’ money to the firm https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-handed-po-ferries-nearly-30664727

#EmploymentLaw #WorkersRights #TradeUnions #MinimumWage

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