Karnataka’s Gig Worker Ordinance Mandates Platform Registration and Welfare Fund Contributions

Karnataka has passed an ordinance to regulate app-based gig work. The Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Ordinance, 2025 applies to services like ride-hailing and food delivery. It requires …

Brazilian prosecutors sue China’s BYD over allegations of slave-like labor conditions

Brazilian prosecutors said Tuesday they are suing Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD and two of its contractors over allegations of using workers in slave-like labor conditions and engaging in international …

Inside Tamil Nadu’s textile factories where women reel under harsh summer heat

“I fainted on the garment factory floor yesterday.” That’s how Thivya Rakini, a trade union leader and worker rights advocate, began recounting her visit to a garment factory in Dindigul. …

33 migrant workers sue recruitment firm, govt over alleged job scam

A group of migrant workers from Bangladesh are suing a recruitment company and the government for leaving them jobless in Malaysia after an alleged job scam involving payment of tens …

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 …

It is time to protect India’s workers from the heat

In the first week of April 2025, Delhi crossed a dangerous threshold: the temperature soared above 41°C, and nights offered little relief. These extreme conditions are no longer outliers but …

Scorching Heat Threatens Home-based Women Workers

Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in Shraddhanand …

Gender-based undervaluation – priority awards review (Australia)

In the Annual Wage Review 2023–24 decision, this Commission determined to undertake a review (Review) on its own initiative pursuant to s 157(3)(a) of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) …

A landmark ruling will tackle the gender pay gap for thousands of workers

The Fair Work Commission has found award pay rates in five industrial awards covering a range of female-dominated occupations and industries do not provide equal pay. The commission proposed significant …

Govt to classify ride hailing drivers as micro business

The government plans to include app-based ride-hailing drivers in the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) category, which would make them eligible for a series of incentives.  MSMEs Minister Maman …