As the US and China negotiate tariffs, China's struggling economy and vulnerable labour market take centre stage. A property slowdown, COVI...

India transitioning to living wages with ILO, affecting labor costs. Disparities in pay among different worker types. Global minimum wage i...

EU ministers address algorithmic management issues faced by European gig workers. The deal aims to provide transparency over AI-powered dec...

European Union lawmakers and Belgium clinched a political deal last month, but only after diluting the Commission's proposal. They then fai...

Belgium, the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, is unlikely to muster enough support for yet another attempt, especially as the ...

The move by the EU, which proposed the draft rules in 2021, came ahead of a meeting of ambassadors from the 27 EU countries on Friday to vo...

The European Parliament and member states on December 13 agreed on a reform that could have been the world's first covering conditions for ...

The new rules will prevent workers from being wrongfully classified as self-employed, and therefore not eligible for benefits, by introduci...

Under the new law, many platform workers in Europe could be reclassified as employees and therefore gain access to labour and social protec...

Over 300 civil society and public health activists have expressed concerns in an open letter to the President of India about the lack of tr...

The draft rules announced by the EU executive in late 2021 would be a global first and are part of a raft of legislation intended to ensure...

Emerging markets are growing old before growing rich. EMs are where ageing is happening fastest. By 2050, EMs will be home to almost 80% of...

On Tuesday, Swiggy told us it has suspended Genie, its pick-up-and-drop service, in three metros. Other platforms are taking longer to comp...

Grover said in response that he was “appalled” by the “personal nature” of the statement.

The non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are bought and sold on bespoke marketplaces such as OpenSea, Decentraland and SuperRare, not social media...

Italy's labour minister, Andrea Orlando, said countries should require big companies such as Amazon to take responsibility for working cond...

The company has been criticised for classifying its drivers as independent contractors rather than employees entitled to rights, such as a ...