“The paper delves into the ways in which EU competition law affects the right of workers to combine with each other and act, collectively, in the furtherance of their rights …
Thailand Orders Lingerie Maker to Compensate Workers in Rare Case
BANGKOK, March 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Thai lingerie manufacturer has been ordered by authorities to compensate more than 1,200 workers who were dismissed without severance pay and wages …
Mexican women say gender discrimination plagues U.S. temporary work programs
A group of Mexican women migrants has filed a complaint accusing the U.S. government of violating a trade agreement by failing to enforce gender discrimination laws in temporary labor programs, …
Myanmar’s Defiant Garment Workers Demand That Fashion Pay Attention
Female garment industry union leaders are emerging at the forefront of the deadly anti-military protests, and asking global brands to take their side. Ma Moe Sandar Myint is the leader …
Labor board withdraws rule to quash graduate students’ right to organize as employees
The National Labor Relations Board said Friday it will withdraw a proposed rule to deny teaching and research assistants at private universities the legal protection to form unions, upholding a 2016 decision that cleared …
Spanish unions to get access to app algorithms to monitor workers’ rights
Spanish unions will be given access to the algorithms companies such as Uber use to manage their workforce in the gig economy, to monitor conditions and stop workers being underpaid …
La ley de ‘riders’ obligará a las empresas a informar a los sindicatos sobre los algoritmos que afecten a las condiciones laborales
La ley de riders nace con el acuerdo de los agentes sociales. Finalmente, la CEOE ha dicho que sí en una reunión casi nocturna. UGT y CC OO ya habían aprobado la …
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