Nepal: Seasonal Workers Management Guidelines

Nepali Seasonal Workers’ Management Guidelines 2079 (in Nepali)

Nepal: Reintegration Directive for Returnee Migrant Workers

Please find here the Reintegration Directives_unofficial translation of the new directive (English) Here is the official directive Reintegration Directives Nepali

Upholding Qantas’s decision to sack staff would weaken workplace rights, union warns

Upholding Qantas’s decision to sack staff ahead of industrial action would create “uncertainty” about accessing workplace rights and water down protections against other forms of discrimination, such as sacking workers …

Toxic chemical leak accident’ employee of a large company jailed for 1 year (original in Korean)

A prison term was sentenced to the executive director of L company, who is accused of exposing four employees of a subcontractor to toxic chemicals while working in defiance of …

India: The Code On Social Security 2020: Addressing The Key Changes And Their Impact

To reform the archaic labour and employment law legislations pertaining to social security, the Central Government has enacted the Code on Social Security, 2020 (“Code“) with an aim to extend …

What a Gay Flight Attendant’s Lost Discrimination Case Says About LGBTQ Rights in China

Last week, it was made public that a Shenzhen court in March 2022 dismissed a high-profile discrimination lawsuit brought by a gay flight attendant, Chai Cheng, against his former employer, China Southern …

CHINA’S REGULATIONS ON ALGORITHMS: Context, impact, and comparisons with the EU

“On 1 March 2022, China’s Regulations on the Administration of Internet Information Service Recommendation Algorithms (hereafter, ‘Regulations’) entered into effect (Creemers et al., 2022). The new Chinese provisions, consisting of …

Chrisden Cabrera Ditiangkin, Hendrix Masamayor Molines, Harvey Mosquito Juanio, Joselito Castro Verde, and Brian Anthony Cubacub Nabong Vs. Lazada E-Services Philippines, Inc., Allan Ancheto, Richard Delantar and Jade Andrade

Here is the full decision of the Philippines Supreme Court finding that digital platfrom drivers are employees: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/246892.pdf

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What the Pakistan Accord means for fashion’s supply chain

The Pakistan Accord — a new, legally binding agreement spanning factory safety and improved working conditions for fashion’s supply chain — is the first regional successor of the Bangladesh Accord, …

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Nepalese recruitment agency directors handed slavery order

Two directors of a Nepalese recruitment agency suspected of exploiting vulnerable workers by charging them thousands of pounds in fees have been handed a Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order (STRO). …

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