The rapid growth of the platform economy in Europe has triggered much discussion about the future of employment rights. This report focuses on a particularly important subset of issues raised …
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Belgium: Cire, Cleanse-BrasilEuro Case – Abused workers and a “forgotten” lawsuit, Sept. 2018
The article returns to the Cleanse BrasilEuro case following the judgement of the Criminal Court of 15 December 2017, ten years after the facts. 455 undocumented men and women, mainly …
Pathways to Formalization: Going Beyond the Formality Dichotomy – The Case of Peru
The following research states that formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. …
Engendering Exploitation: Gender Inequality in US Labor Migration Programs
A 2018 policy brief that highlights how gender bias and discrimination are deeply entrenched in the temporary labor migration programs. The reports interviews temporary women workers who describe how employers …
She Works Hard for the Money: Tacking low pay in sectors dominated by women
“LOW PAY IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE This study provides data confirming that workers in lower-skilled health and social care assistant positions earn considerably less than the national average wage …
INFORMAL TRADE IN SOUTH AFRICA Legislation, Case Law and Recommendations for Local Government
“South Africa faces a number of developmental challenges, including high levels of unemployment, poverty and accelerated rates of rural-urban migration. Informal trade has an important role to play in addressing …
New research highlights persistent inequality, violence and discrimination faced by LGBTI people in Thailand
This article concluded about the content discussed in the two-day national dialogue, (21-22 June) organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the Being LGBTI in Asia programme. It …
Agents of Change? Assessing Hong Kong employment agencies’ compliance with the Code of Practice
The new report is based on interviews with 452 migrant domestic workers between July 2017 and March 2018. It shows that the Hong Kong government’s Code of Practice for Employment …
China: Amazon Profits from Secretly Oppressing Its Supplier’s Workers, An Investigative Report on Hengyang Foxconn
A NGO, China Labor Watch, investigate Foxconn’s factory in Henyang, China and made this report. It showed that this factory violated PRC Employment Law and impaired workers’ rights. (1) Dispatching …
Informal Workers Make Cities Work For All: 3 Stories from Thailand, India and Colombia
This article highlights the contribution of the informal workers in the informal economy to the urban and national economies around the world. As a result, it urges the government to …
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