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Migrants NGO finds recruiters making applicants pay for medical fees and training by taking out credit at exorbitant rates of interestEmployment agencies and money-lending companies in the Philippines are cheating women applying for jobs abroad out of …
Platform work is on the rise, with hundreds of digital platforms active in the EU and millions of workers earning some income by working for them.
About 2,000 crew members withdrew labour over pay and conditions, as well as citing serious breaches of overfishing rules by Spanish and French companiesThe waters of west Africa and the Indian Ocean boast some of the world’s largest, healthiest popula…
Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wagesThree World Cup security guards who were detained while trying to resolve a dispute over unpaid wages are still being held in …
Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children workSome of the world’s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the planta…
Poor pay, risky work, anxiety and job insecurity reported by delivery, transport and data workers tied to digital platforms More than half of gig economy workers in the UK are earning less than the minimum wage, new research has found, with a quarter r…
My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, is filled with stories about the rich and powerful hacking systems, but it was hard to find stories of the hacking by the less powerful. Here’s one I just found. An article on how layoffs at big companies work inadvertently suggests an employee hack to avoid being fired:
…software performs a statistical analysis during terminations to see if certain groups are adversely affected, said such reviews can uncover other problems. On a list of layoff candidates, a company might find it is about to fire inadvertently an employee who previously opened a complaint against a manager—a move that could be seen as retaliation, she said…
Prosecutors seek compensation for workers kept on cattle ranch owned by German carmaker during dictatorship from 1973 to 1987Brazil is threatening to take the German carmaker Volkswagen to court over allegations that it used slave labour on a vast ranc…
Thinktank calls on UK government to provide stronger regulation to protect workers from intrusive monitoring“Dystopian” worker surveillance techniques are more likely likely to disproportionately affect young people, women and ethnic minorities, a repo…
News broke over the weekend that the Biden administration is preparing a draft regulation focused on H-2A and H-2B temporary agricultural and seasonal worker programs that is contrary to the law and detrimental to American workers.