“Gig economy companies use self-employment to move all the risk on the worker, while paying no taxes to contribute to the welfare state.”Read the full article
“The EU approach of bringing back as many Gambians as possible can only be a recipe for violence without making the effort to understand the role that European countries are playing in these conditions.”Read the full article
Workplace discrimination against visible minorities is as widespread as gender inequality and sexual harassment. But little action is taken against it.Read the full article
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has committed to a 50 per cent reduction in CO² emissions by 2050, but recent studies have raised concerns amongst the residents of port cities like Marseille about the current effects on their [...]Read the full article
As these workers are often employed by the caporalato (gangmasters) who run a system of minimum payment and maximum exploitation, the victims of labour exploitation are often unrecorded by official statistics.Read the full article
“It was never just about that name only. Identity is something of a matter of ‘survival’ when you are a small Slavic nation of only two million people that can easily be ‘assimilated’ by your bigger neighbours.”Read the full article
With one of the highest population densities in the world and an unabating love for cars, paralysing traffic jams are a daily reality in Malta. Only improved public transport and a reduction in the number of cars on the island can break the [...]Read the full article
A new report by Corporate Europe Observatory shows that accountancy firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), “the Big Four”, are omnipresent in the European Union’s policy processes for tackling corporate tax avoidance and they work through several channels of [...]Read the full article
“If equality is the basis of the European Union, we have not noticed it. It’s about time we get our part of that equality.”Read the full article
“The Commission has effectively launched an unprecedented two-pronged attack on workers’ rights by both denying the equal treatment of workers in central government and the private sector, and by undermining the function of social dialogue.”Read the full article
“The ratification of the Istanbul Convention is great news because on a symbolical level, when it comes to the balance of power between conservative and progressive forces, it was an important victory for the latter.”Read the full article
“Migrants in the Global North live a dual reality, because on one hand they are considered as lazy people who don’t want to work and integrate, and at the same time, they are accused of stealing jobs from native workers.”Read the full article
