Ontario’s Controversial Bill 5 and Labour Rights: A Dangerous Precedent

Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025, introduced this week, hides Schedule 9, Special Economic Zones Act, 2025. Bill 5’s potential gutting of protections and rights of workers, …

LITTLE TECH Goes Global: The Expansion of AI and Workplace Surveillance

The following discussion delves into the multifaceted trends that characterize the ongoing transformation in workplace technology. It explores the expansion of surveillance technologies beyond the realms of Big Tech, the …

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AMES v. OHIO DEPT. OF YOUTH SERVICES

Petitioner Marlean Ames, a heterosexual woman, has worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services in various roles since 2004. In 2019, the agency interviewed Ames for a new management …

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Collective bargaining laws need to be front and centre in formalisation efforts

Collective bargaining must be at the heart of the upcoming International Labour Conference (ILC), as member states confront the sluggish progress made worldwide towards formalisation of the informal economy, despite a …

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Realising Decent Work in the Platform Economy: Addressing Intermediated Platform Employment in Food Delivery and Data Work

“The digital platform economy has grown rapidly across sectors, encompassing services from transportation and delivery to data annotation and content moderation. While much of the policy focus has been on …

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Final Statement IAATW vs. Uber

On 6 April 2021, the Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (NCP) received a notification of a specific instance from the International Alliance of AppBased …

Regulating Homework in the Philippines: Little Progress in Enforcement after Three Decades

“Homeworkers in the Philippines have had a tumultuous journey, shaped by shifting national and international trade policies. These shifts have arguably also affected the attention paid to issues faced by …

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Unexplained migrant worker deaths in Saudi Arabia

A FairSquare investigation into the deaths of low-paid migrant workers in Saudi Arabia suggests there is a critical absence of effective policies and processes to determine the cause of migrant …

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Are We Yet Sick of New Technologies? The Unequal Health Effects of Workplace Digitalization

“This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, characterized by the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Analyzing changes …

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Revolutionizing health and safety: The role of AI and digitalization at work.

Based on an in-depth desk review, key informant interviews and a review of policy and practice, this report explores the changes digital technologies are bringing to safety and health at …