This signature volume of essays, part of a regular series curated and edited by the JustJobs Network, seeks to provide varying perspectives on the opportunities and challenges that technology, particularly …
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ALGORITHMIC MANAGEMENT: OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION — A GUIDE FOR WORKERS AND UNIONS
“In a growing number of economic sectors, employers are using algorithmic management systems (AMS) to ratchet up productivity at the expense of workers’ health, privacy and wages. These systems often …
Putting Things Right: Remediation of forced labour under the Tariff Act of 1930
“Import bans under the Tariff Act are among the strongest legal tools currently available to hold companies accountable for forced labour in their supply chains. They have the potential to …
Research and Policy Brief: Avenues for exploited migrant workers to remain in their country of employment to pursue labour remedies
“Migrant workers around the world are routinely subjected to wage theft and other forms of labour exploitation. Most are unwilling or unable to report abuse to the authorities or seek …
ILO Guidance Note – Wage Protection for Migrant Workers
“Working time and wages are the working conditions that have the most direct and tangible effect on the everyday lives of workers and employers. Wages can determine job choice, the …
The Right to Strike, Minimum Service Levels, and European Values
“The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill 2023 proposes a ‘minimum service levels’ framework for strikes in certain public services in Great Britain. These proposals were justified by reference to European …
Ten years on from Rana Plaza, how much have conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry improved?
“Ten years ago, on the morning of 24 April 2013, the world was shaken by the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story building that housed several garment factories in Savar, …
JUST BEAT IT! How Just Eat Robo-fires its Workers
“Report reveals the algorithmic dismissal of workers over false fraud allegations at Just Eat Just Eat relied on faulty automated decision-making to robo-fire workers without adequate explanation or right of …
The Future of Unions and Worker Representation: The Digital Picket Line
“The Future of Unions and Worker Representation, written by Professor Anthony Forsyth, thoroughly examines four countries and industrial relations systems—Australia, the UK, the USA, and Italy—to assess and contrast their …
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Protecting workers’ rights in digitised workplaces – knowing what we need to know
“Across all sectors of the global economy automated and algorithmic management systems (AMS) of various kinds are being deployed by employers to, supposedly, increase productivity and efficiency. Whilst this quest …