“The dismissal of employees belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood is just the tip of the iceberg. This law targets any public employee who opposes the regime, regardless of their affiliation.”

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the discrepancy between the pivotal social, economic and public health role of India’s sanitation workers and the fact that they “remain at the bottom of society”.

In order to better support migrant workers – both those from Zimbabwe living and working abroad and those from other countries living and working in Zimbabwe – the government of Zimbabwe launched its inaugural National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) in June this [...]

In Los Angeles, the capital of the US garment industry, seamstresses, senators and garment factory owners are teaming up in support of a bill that would put an end to the exploitative practices that plague the fashion industry.

The pandemic has highlighted the crucial social role played by migrant domestic workers in Italy, yet the state continues to discriminate against them and to deprive them of adequate protection. The plight of those working without papers – the majority – is even [...]

“In declaring, on the one hand, that human labour is a key resource, and starting a race to the bottom in their pursuit of the maximum reduction of labour rights, state intervention and social standards on the other, the authors of these draft laws are opening a Pandora’s [...]

Thanks to the efforts of the YouTubers Union and IG Metall, content creators on the platform now have greater transparency, arbitration power, clearer rules, better communication and greater participation.

Protests, walk-outs and work stoppages from workers at some of Belarus’s biggest heavy industries played a key role in Belarus’s historic pro-democracy movement last August.

While factory workers in Taiwan’s booming semiconductor industry serve as the backbone of its economy, the rights and dignity of these workers often take second place to company profits.

Already beleaguered by the routine violations of their rights by the Israeli military occupation, Palestinian journalists also have to cope with poor working conditions and political pressure from within Palestinian society itself.