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). …
Indonesia issues emergency regulation to replace job creation law
Indonesia President Joko Widodo has signed an emergency regulation to replace a controversial job creation law, his Chief Economics Minister said on Friday, a law that the Constitutional Court had …
Rajasthan government plans law to protect rights of gig workers
In a first for the country, the Rajasthan government is likely to propose a law to protect the rights of gig workers and make them beneficiaries of various state welfare …
Indonesian migrant workers in the UK: More than 200 people repatriated, some ‘unpaid and have to mortgage houses’
The Indonesian Ministry of Manpower asked the migrant worker placement company, PT Al Zubara, not to collect the short departure fees for workers in the UK who are still in …
Global Car Supply Chains Entangled With Abuses in Xinjiang, Report Says
A new report on the auto industry cites extensive links to Xinjiang, where the U.S. government now presumes goods are made with forced labor. The global auto industry remains heavily …
Pakistan: SC rules wage structure should encompass cost of living
The Supreme Court has held that the wage structure ought to be crafted in a way that must provide not merely for the bare subsistence of life but also to …
Labor gets its workplace changes through in the nick of time after late-night Senate sitting
Labor’s centrepiece industrial relations laws have passed the parliament, after many hours of late-night debate. It’s a political win for the government, which wanted the bill passed before the end …
Australia: Labor gets its workplace changes through in the nick of time after late-night Senate sitting
Labor’s centrepiece industrial relations laws have passed the parliament, after many hours of late-night debate. It’s a political win for the government, which wanted the bill passed before the end …
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By workers, for workers: in India, cooperatives are addressing care workers’ own caregiving needs
In attending to the needs of children, the old, sick, invalid or differently abled, almost every woman is an unpaid care worker, with caregiving largely considered a women’s responsibility the world …