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Tag: Workers’ rights

Ensuring fair working conditions in the online talent platform economy

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Online talent platform work has experienced rapid growth in recent years and been embraced by individuals and businesses alike. While working via an online platform does not constitute a new …

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How new technology is helping to identify human rights abuses in the seafood industry

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Every year, the U.S. imports billions of dollars worth of seafood from countries that may be using forced labor on distant water fishing vessels. A growing cadre of tech companies …

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EU takes step to help ‘gig’ economy workers

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The European Commission on Wednesday launched a public consultation to look into the legal employment status and conditions of gig economy workers. It is the bloc’s first step aimed at improving the rights …

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Facing aggressive pushback, Amazon workers to vote on forming the company’s first American union

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For years, Amazon employees have fought for unions and been quashed by their powerful employer. At last, they are poised to succeed. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), …

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Homemaker’s Work in Landmark Judgment, Awards Additional Rs. 11.2 Lakhs

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This week, India’s Supreme Court delivered a crucial judgment that will progressively inform our notions of homemakers’ work, sacrifice, and subsequently the economic value of both. In an insurance dispute …

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Returning ‘heroes’: Filipino migrant workers met with a devastated economy

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Filipino healthcare workers have found themselves thrust to the frontlines of the pandemic to care for the most vulnerable across the globe. The Philippines is one of the world’s leading …

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Share the Wealth

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From the publisher: A new perspective on the neoliberal world through the prism of rents and rentiers How can we reduce inequalities? How can we make work get better recognition …

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Someone’s got to do it

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It seems that actually only fools, horses and men work. Perhaps it’s time to recruit elsewhere. Frances Coppola looks at the “Situations Vacant”. A woman’s work, we are told, is …

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One in ten European workers at risk of poverty, study says

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In-work poverty increased over the last decade in most European countries, with around 12% of workers at risk of poverty, according to the latest report by the European Trade Union …

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Eye-popping wage report charts 40 years of worsening income inequality as the top 1% thrive

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Wage inequality is getting worse, according to new data from the Social Security Administration, which shows a steady trickle-up effect in worker income during every period for the last four …

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