Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory - Faculty of Law

Advancing Africa's Development through Transformative and Gender Equitable Social Policies: Inaugural GETSPA Short Course

jessica.ling2@mail.mcgill.ca — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:11:07 +0000

The Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Africa (GETSPA) Project, hosted at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, and funded by the Open Society Foundations, is a pan-African research, documentation, capacity-building, advocacy and networking project focused on investigating the trajectories, processes, and outcomes of social policymaking in Africa.

LPE Collective Workshop at ��: Between Authoritarianism and Freedom

LLDRL — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:01:08 +0000

On Tuesday July 8 2025 (3PM), scholars of political economy will gather in Montreal just prior to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference. In the spirit of fostering community and generating interdisciplinary discussion, the LPE Collective invites scholars to network, share their research, and receive feedback over an afternoon workshop to be held at ��’s Faculty of Law.

Workshop leaders will include Leanna Katz, Eric George, and Martha McCluskey.

May 16, 2025: 5th Anniversary of the #Democratizing Work Manifesto

LLDRL — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:31:54 +0000

Five years ago, in the midst of the global pandemic, thousands of us came together to recognize workers’ existential investment in their work.

Critical Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Slavery: On the Presence of the Past

LLDRL — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:38:10 +0000

The Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL) is proud to announce the publication of Critical Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Slavery: On the Presence of the Past (Brill, 2025), a ground-breaking edited volume that brings critical, historical, comparative, and transnational perspectives to bear on t

A Transformative Framework to Achieve and Sustain Employment Equity - Report of the Employment Equity Act Review Task Force

Professor Adelle Blackett, FRSC, Ad E, Task Force Chair — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:27:36 +0000

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Ottawa backs listing Black and LGBTQ workers under Canada's workplace equity laws

LLDRL — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:24:31 +0000

The federal government says it supports listing Black and LGBTQ people among groups facing systemic workplace barriers under the Employment Equity Act, CBC News has learned.

The Liberal government is backing the legislative change after a task force report recommended the move.

A source told CBC News earlier on Monday that Ottawa "broadly supports" that recommendation and others from a task force that reviewed the legislation. The government made an initial commitment Monday to modernize the act, the source said.

Le Manifeste Travail est en circulation!

LLDRL — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:04:29 +0000

Le Manifeste Travail – Démocratiser. Démarchandiser. Dépolluer. (The Working Manifesto) est un essai collectif dirigé par Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana et Dominique Méda, avec des textes d’Adelle Blackett, de Julia Cagé, de Neera Chandhoke, d’Imge Kaya-Sabanci, de Lisa Herzog, de Sara Lafuente, de Hélène Landemore, de Flavia Maximo et de Pavlina T. Tcherneva.

Le guide « Outils d’éducation aux droits du travail dans le programme du Chèque emploi-service » est désormais disponible

LLDRL — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:01:21 +0000

Le Collectif de recherche-action sur le travail et l’association socio-économique (CREATAS) a partagé son guide « Outil d’éducation aux droits du travail dans le programme du Chèque emploi-service ». Le projet poursuit trois grands objectifs :

Professor Jason Haynes receives UNESCO/Juan Bosch Social Science Prizee

LLDRL — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:55:41 +0000

We wish to congratulate Professor Jason Haynes, a visitor to the LLDRL, for this stellar recognition. The prize celebrates his research on the theme “Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Law and Practice: European and Commonwealth Caribbean Perspectives”.

The UNESCO/Juan Bosch Prize is awarded to young social scientists who contribute to strenghtening the links between research and public policies.

Critical Contemporary Slavery and the Law panel at the LSA Global Meeting

LLDRL — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:52:09 +0000

During the Law & Society Association’s annual meeting, dedicated to the theme ‘Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy’, Professor Adelle Blackett chaired a panel foregrounding the upcoming IACL General Report on “Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Causes and Consequences”. The panel was given life by the brilliant contributions of seven special national reporteurs, that is: