1,167 search results for “labour exploitation” in the Public website
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Yvonne Erkens publishes article on innovation in the field of corporate social responsibility
Throughout the world fundamental labour rights in supply chains are being violated. Since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh shook the world, we can no longer turn our heads away.
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Silicon pore optics for high-energy optical systems
This thesis examines silicon pore optics (SPO), a technology that exploits silicon wafers from the semiconductor industry to create extremely high quality X-ray optics, by studying its manufacturing process, applications, and prospects.
- Global Questions Seminar
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Sabine Witting
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.k.witting@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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Is it time to amend Dutch work disability system?
The research report by the independent committee on the future of the work disability system in the Netherlands ('Onafhankelijke Commissie Toekomst Arbeidsongeschiktheidsstelsel' (Octas)) was published this week. While the number of people unable to work has dropped considerably, the system is still…
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Thieving civil servant dismissed on the spot
A civil servant in the Zuidplas municipality stole a saddle from an old bicycle from the municipal waste depot. Although the theft concerned an item of little value, the subdistrict court agreed with the municipality's decision to dismiss the employee with immediate effect. Lecturer in employment law…
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Can a demonstrating civil servant be fired?
A discussion is currently being held about whether a demonstrating policy official employed by the Municipality of The Hague, who is also a local councillor in Rijswijk, can remain in office after she participated in Extinction Rebellion’s recent climate protest. The VVD party in The Hague claims this…
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Database of Business Ethics
For many years, human rights have been considered a playing field in which states were the most important actors. It is they who in multilateral relations, such as the United Nations (UN), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), have written international…
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Emma van der Vos on curbing income inequality
Excessive remuneration of top executives often sparks heated debate in the Netherlands. Ministers are summoned to Parliament, where they then tend to wholeheartedly condemn the 'grabbing' going on at the top of the corporate sector. But that’s where it stops. Tackling excessive remuneration seems to…
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Van der Heijden Chair Social Justice
On the occasion of prof Paul van der Heijden’s stepping down as Rector Magnificus and President of the Executive Board of Leiden University in 2013 the Chair bearing his name on Social Justice was established. It was a “farewell present” of the Leiden University to it’s Rector.
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Career preparation
Leiden University offers you several services related to career orientation and job application skills.
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The Ra's al-jinz project (Oman)
The Ra’s al-jinz project tackles economic diversification and social complexity in non-urban societies, from the perspective of Eastern Arabia, by exploring the Early Bronze Age settlement of Ra’s al-jinz RJ-3.
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Cognitive Uncertainty and Employees’ Daily Innovative Work Behavior: The Moderating Role of Ambidextrous Leadership
Bernard Bernards examines constraints on innovation by focusing on cognitive uncertainty as a personal state that may affect innovative work behavior.
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Anisotropic Colloids
While colloidal aggregates are often undesirable due to their random shapes, we exploit them as a starting point to synthesize patchy particles.
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Education
In a network- and case-based programme on management, business and entrepreneurship we focus on science-driven companies and exploiting business opportunities created by research.
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Streptomyces as cell factories
We aim to engineer streptomycetes to fully exploit their potential for natural product productions, by a rational design and evolution approach.
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Fundamental Labor Rights and International Codes of Conduct
On 22 September, the Social Justice Expertise Center and the Dutch Association on Labor Rights (VVA) brought together eighty (Dutch) labor law lawyers to discuss the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and fundamental labor rights.
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Stefan Sagel on non-competition clauses
An open disagreement about a non-competition clause in the employment contract of a top business manager is a rare occurrence. Both the company and the employee are wary of the possible damage to their reputation that such a conflict could cause.
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Why do politicians get redundancy pay when they leave voluntarily?
Recently, a large number of Dutch MPs announced they will leave the political arena. They are - even if they leave voluntarily - entitled to redundancy pay, a kind of benefit.
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Law and Empire. Ideas, practices, empires
This volume was edited by Jeroen Duindam, Jill Harries, Caroline Humfress, and Nimrod Hurvitz.
- Centre for Computational Life Sciences (CCLS)
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Conquering the fortress: New strategies for the treatment of tuberculosis
Can we exploit the cell death machinery of the host to develop new host-directed anti-TB treatments?
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EuDEco
EuDEco (Modelling the European Data Economy) is a Coordination & Support Action (CSA) receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
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System Verification Lab (SVL)
The correctness of computational systems is of great importance to our society, since it becomes ever more reliant on the benefits of computing.
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Interpreting lithic raw material variability in Middle Palaeolithic contexts
A modeling approach with applications to the Bau de l'Aubesier (Southeastern France)
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International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining
On dinsdag 26 juni 2018, Linlin Sun defended her doctoral thesis ‘International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining’. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en Prof. dr. E.C.P.D.C. De Brabandere.
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Quantitative Biology
Quantitative biology means exploiting mathematical modelling and computer simulation as a tool to gain additional insights into the meaning of experimental data. Discover in this minor when and how to apply these tools, in a multidisciplinary setting.
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Law, Culture and Development
Law is of major importance for socio-economic development. Ideally, law organizes human interaction in a way that promotes justice and legal certainty and protects vulnerable groups from exploitation and arbitrariness.
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Medicinal Chemistry
The mission in this division, headed by Laura Heitman, is to design and synthesize novel and better ligands for drug targets. Drug discovery is a lengthy but inspiring adventure. It is often an interplay between academic institutes and pharmaceutical industry, in which scientists at university develop…
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Female workers Tesco Stores win case on unequal pay
Female workers at Tesco Stores, a chain of supermarkets in the UK, brought a case to the European Court of Justice claiming they received unequal pay for doing work of equal value to that of their male colleagues.
- Governing Delivery Platform Companies
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Barend Barentsen in Dagblad van het Noorden on aggression in the workplace
A national survey conducted by Dutch newspapers Dagblad van het Noorden, Turbantia, Brabants Dagblad and the Dutch Federation of Trade Unions (FNV) shows that staff working in disability and mental health care often face violence in the workplace. In the three northern provinces of the Netherlands,…
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Gerrard Boot on embedding of zzp'ers within organisation
The Dutch cabinet wants to stop organisations from using zzp’ers (self-employed professionals) for work that is deemed to be embedded in the organisation. The only exception would be when a person explicitly meets certain criteria for entrepreneurs.
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Can businesses and employers demand proof of vaccination?
Can bars, gyms and travel providers refuse customers who have no proof of vaccination? And can an employer dismiss employees who are not vaccinated? Reports in the Dutch media about travel organisations and a dance instructor who are refusing customers who have not yet been fully vaccinated have sparked…
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Access to justice & labour rights: innovative paths for conflict resolution
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Simone van der Hof
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.van.der.hof@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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Dutch cabinet not adopting Boot Committee's main recommendation on ZZP plans
According to Gerrard Boot, Professor of Labour Law, the recommendations of the Committee he chaired on model agreements (Boot Committee) are only partly reflected in the plans of Karien van Gennip, the Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment. The minister is working on a legal presumption of…
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Educational Innovation
At Humanities, students are the point of focus. They are trained to be critical thinkers, academic professionals and involved citizens. Our lecturers and researchers encourage students to develop knowledge with which they can understand and indicate the major topics in our society. Because everything…
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Fighting for a Living
Which circumstances have determined the transition to, or the dominance of, a particular type of military employment in different societies at different times?
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Institute of Public Law
The institute that focuses on Public Law is as broad as the field itself. The Institute of Public Law has six departments, each with its own research agenda.
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Career preparation
Where you end up depends on the chosen study direction, your own skills and interests.
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Career preparation
Where you end up depends on the chosen study direction, your own skills and interests.
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Career preparation
Where you end up depends on the chosen study direction, your own skills and interests.
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Career preparation
Where you end up depends on the chosen study direction, your own skills and interests.
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Career preparation
Where you end up depends on the chosen study direction, your own skills and interests.
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Career preparation
One of the highlights of doing our master's programme is the opportunity to follow your own research project in which you combine the experience of doing a detailed and extended research project with the development of important skill-sets.
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Career preparation
Where you end up depends on the chosen study direction, your own skills and interests.