دعونا نغتنم الفرصة لضمان وجود معاهدة دولية ملزمة قوية بشأن حقوق الإنسان وحقوق الإنسان

بعد مرور أربع سنوات على تبني مجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة قرارًا لبدء المفاوضات حول معاهدة دولية ملزمة بشأن حقوق الإنسان وحقوق الإنسان ، نبدأ اليوم مناقشات حول مشروع الصفر

تعارض الجماعات النسائية مقترحات البنك الدولي لإضعاف حقوق العمال

أعربت مجموعة واسعة من المنظمات والحلفيات النسائية عن معارضتها وشواغلها للتوصيات الأخيرة للبنك الدولي في تقرير التنمية في العالم 2019 ، والذي يركز على زيادة مرونة العمل ...

Too Good to Be True? A Comment on Hall and Krueger’s Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber’s Driver-Partners

In their comment on the article on Uber driver-partners by Jonathan Hall and Alan Krueger, the authors analyze the article’s methodological problems, including sample bias, leading questions, selective reporting of …

Gig economy protests intensify as UberEats couriers rile at new rules

Until recently, gig economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo did not have to worry about organised workers. That was almost by design: riders and drivers work alone, at strange hours, so …

L’extrême précarité des “crowdworkers,” les ouvriers du clic, inquiète l’ONU

A l’aube des années 2000, le métier de “crowdworker” a fait son apparition. Méconnu du grand public, ce job façonne Internet en réalisant une multitude de micro-tâches rapides et répétitives, …

Follow the Money, Says New Global Anti-Slavery Effort

The principality of Liechtenstein kicked off a campaign on Monday to enlist the global financial sector to fight modern slavery, flexing its role as a center of world wealth management …

Gig-Economy Workers Are the Modern Proletariat

Karl Marx defined the proletariat as laborers “unencumbered by any means of production” who were increasingly impoverished by the rise of machines. In that classic form, Marx’s favorite class doesn’t really …

Bipartisan bill addresses human trafficking impact on global seafood trade

Guam’s delegate to Congress filed a bill this week that would amend an existing law that targets human trafficking to address the seafood industry’s role. U.S. Delegate Madeline Bordallo, a …

How Facebook Is Giving Sex Discrimination in Employment Ads a New Life

That’s why on Tuesday, the ACLU, along with the Communications Workers of America and the employment law firm Outten & Golden LLP, filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against …

What Happens When Gig-Economy Workers Become Employees

Ever since the emergence of companies like Uber and Lyft, businesses and labor advocates have engaged in an endless, largely theoretical debate about whether classifying workers as independent contractors—responsible for …

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