Thursday, September 16, 2021
In a vote yesterday (16 September 2021), MEPs demand people working for digital labour platforms, such as food delivery services, should have the same rights as traditional employees. Platform workers are often misclassified as self-employed,...
Monday, December 14, 2020
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The US state of California has voted to keep rideshare and delivery industry workers as independent...
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America, United States, Asia, India, Europe, France, Spain
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Friday, November 27, 2020
Labour rights groups doubt government, employers are committed to implementing the scheme and demand informal workers and self-employed be included
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Ahmad Nazirul Azrie Ahmad Noh was unemployed for a year after getting a diploma in Malaysian Automotive Skills Technology from Sungai Buloh Vocational College in 2018.
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Domestic workers are the country's unsung heroines and must have access to the Compensation Fund. This ruling, made on Thursday by the Constitutional Court, overturned the law that made domestic workers the only group of employees who couldn't claim...
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Édouard Philippe y a présenté trois textes dont l’un, projet de loi d’urgence, habilite le gouvernement à prendre par ordonnances, sous trois mois, toute une batterie de mesures en droit du travail et en droit de la sécurité sociale : étendre le bénéfice...
Monday, January 20, 2020
BLOG: Over the past decade or so, Israeli lawmakers have been slowly curtailing and revoking social benefits from (mostly poor) Palestinian families—citizens of Israel who have contributed to the system all their lives—under the pretext of national...
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America, United States, Asia, Israel, Palestinian Territory
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Throughout 2019, Chinese authorities passed a series of legal reforms in the area of employment that stand to have profound affect on businesses, employee working conditions and the dynamics of the Chinese workplace. Specifically, legal amendments and...
Thursday, December 19, 2019
On 29 November 2019, the Chinese government released the Interim Measures for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Residents to Participate in the Social Insurance Scheme in the Mainland (Measures). The Measures, which will come into effect on 1 January...
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Hong Kong S.A.R., China, Macao S.A.R., China, Taiwan, Asia
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
A recent California law stops platform companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash from misclassifying their more than 400,000 drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees. It is an important first step toward protecting workers in a labor...