“A desirable future within a democracy can only be achieved if its citizens have good jobs. We need to rethink the future of work, which means much more than just automation,” says Elsa Arnaiz Chico, president of the Spanish civil society organisation, Talento para el Futuro.

Across much of the world, paid time off to care is still designed as if only mothers care and only for newborns. Lived experience, new jurisprudence and union-backed policy blueprints point to a different future – one where men take meaningful, well-paid, non-transferable leave [...]

Senegal is looking to breathe new life into its economy by investing in tourism. However, a number of obstacles continue to hinder the sector’s development, starting with working conditions that remain largely unattractive.

“Transferring wealth from already under-supported working-class people to a few companies owned by the richest people on the planet – and allowing those companies and CEOs to directly invest that money back into far-right political factions and parties that envision a world [...]

As Europe rapidly ages – and retirement age is pushed up to 70 – millions of workers over 50 find themselves faced with a cruel paradox: they are excluded from the labour market just as the demographics – and the pension system – make them indispensable.

In the Andean region, grandmothers hold family life together – not only with love, but through hard work. This labour goes largely unseen and unpaid. Caught in a vicious cycle of time poverty and neglected by public policy, they continue to care for others as they grow older – in [...]

“The problem is always the same: the automated system increases the power to control and redirect workers, but in an opaque way, because you don’t see it, you don’t have a specific person giving orders. This type of control is becoming increasingly more intense and less [...]

In Spain, two very different groups of workers find themselves in the same precarious position at retirement: from self-employed professionals in mutual societies to gig economy couriers, all face pensions that fall far short of meeting basic needs.

Translators work in a changing and competitive field, where the use of new technologies – currently AI – is once again leading to the dehumanisation of their work and the deterioration of their working conditions, a trajectory that looks set to be the future for many other specialised professions.

While Palermo attracts more visitors every year, its tourism workers are not enjoying the benefits of this growth and remain trapped in precarious conditions that trade unions are seeking to overturn.