President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed several laws designed to ease the strain on businesses and workers during the nationwide COVID-19 quarantine. But how effective will they be? One key legislation …
Lizette Risgaard: Tripartite agreement creates greater security among employees
The government and the social partners have entered into a tripartite agreement on temporary wage compensation for privately employed workers who would otherwise lose their jobs because of COVID-19. “The agreement …
Uber, Lyft drivers seek state sick time protections as Covid-19 concern spreads
Drivers who are suing Uber and Lyft in Massachusetts and California over their status as independent contractors are asking the courts to issue immediate injunctions ordering the ride-share companies to classify them …
COVID-19 – time for governments, brands and employers to protect supply chain and precarious workers from hardship and infection
As the economic and human rights impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak come into view, we are again seeing supply chain and frontline workers, alongside those in precarious and informal jobs, …
America needs paid sick leave laws to stop coronavirus from spreading
Coronavirus has laid bare the extent to which the failure of our nation to require paid sick leave has now endangered all of us. Congress needs to urgently pass paid …
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A New Social Contract can rebuild our workplaces and economies after COVID-19
Our world is in crisis with many faces of devastation: the devastation of inequality, climate devastation with extreme weather events and changing seasons, and now the devastation of a pandemic with no …