In-Store Instacart Shoppers in Chicago Get OK for Union Vote

“A federal labor board official in Chicago has approved a mail ballot unionization election for a group of Instacart in-store shoppers at a Jewel-Osco store in Chicago. The petition was …

Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers’ Rights for Three Years

The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a fillip …

Lockdown Woes: The Dismal State of Domestic Workers in India

This article specifically focusses on the harassment and violence faced by live-in female domestic workers during the lockdown brought about in India due to Covid- 19. “Live-in workers” have been …

‘They just don’t care’: Millions of garment workers facing destitution as Britain’s high street billionaires fail to honour contracts

In his factory in Chittagong, Bangladesh’s main port and trading hub, Mostafiz Uddin has a mountain stacked high of 100,000 pairs of jeans with nowhere to go. The piles of …

Protecting Whistleblowers under COVID-19: A Proposal for “Preclearance” for Termination

“Across the country, essential workers — healthcare workers, janitors, grocery workers, delivery drivers, and others — are protesting dangerous working conditions under COVID-19. In response, employers in various sectors are retaliating against and even firing workers who raise internal complaints …

Age discrimination in a pandemic: COVID-19 and inequality at work

“COVID-19 is fundamentally reshaping the economy and world of work. Mass layoffs – in tourism, bars, clubs, cafes and restaurants, cinemas and casinos, but also increasingly in professional services – …

Something for Europeans to celebrate – a new social contract begins to emerge?

“COVID-19 has exposed the shortcomings for many companies denying responsibility for their workers, using tax havens and left without operating reserves to respect wages and supply chain orders due to …

Shelter From the Storm

“For many of us, our main contribution to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic is staying home. Many governors have issued orders to “shelter in place,” borrowing the term from …

Pakistan: Rabbani, rights activists decry ban on trade unions at PIA

KARACHI : Veteran politician Mian Raza Rabbani, who is currently serving as a Pakistan Peoples Party senator and has also been a former chairman of the Senate, has berated the …

70 percent of industries found flouting govt decision to provide regular payment to workers

Seventy percent industries have been found to have defied the government decision to fully pay their workers for the Nepali month of Chaitra (March-April). During a primary survey on the …

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