Una de las principales transformaciones en el mundo del trabajo en la última década ha sido el surgimiento de plataformas digitales de trabajo en línea. Esta nueva forma de trabajo no tiene ...
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Indonesia: A Country Grappling with Migrant Protection at Home and Abroad
Indonesia, the world’s fourth-largest country, has for decades been a major origin for labor migration, with its workers fanning out to locations in the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Home to a …
COLLECTIVE VOICE IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, SOLUTIONS
The rapid growth of the platform economy in Europe has triggered much discussion about the future of employment rights. This report focuses on a particularly important subset of issues raised …
Caminos hacia la formalización: más allá de la dicotomía de la formalidad: el caso de Perú
La siguiente investigación establece que la formalización tiene muchas facetas y matices en los frentes empresarial y laboral, y es posible que las empresas no puedan o no deseen formalizar todas a la vez. ...
Generación de la explotación: desigualdad de género en los programas de migración laboral de los Estados Unidos
Un resumen de políticas de 2018 que destaca cómo el sesgo de género y la discriminación están profundamente arraigados en los programas de migración laboral temporal. Los informes entrevistan a trabajadoras temporales que describen cómo los empleadores ...
She Works Hard for the Money: Tacking low pay in sectors dominated by women
“LOW PAY IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE This study provides data confirming that workers in lower-skilled health and social care assistant positions earn considerably less than the national average wage …
INFORMAL TRADE IN SOUTH AFRICA Legislation, Case Law and Recommendations for Local Government
“South Africa faces a number of developmental challenges, including high levels of unemployment, poverty and accelerated rates of rural-urban migration. Informal trade has an important role to play in addressing …
New research highlights persistent inequality, violence and discrimination faced by LGBTI people in Thailand
This article concluded about the content discussed in the two-day national dialogue, (21-22 June) organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the Being LGBTI in Asia programme. It …
Agents of Change? Assessing Hong Kong employment agencies’ compliance with the Code of Practice
The new report is based on interviews with 452 migrant domestic workers between July 2017 and March 2018. It shows that the Hong Kong government’s Code of Practice for Employment …
China: Amazon Profits from Secretly Oppressing Its Supplier’s Workers, An Investigative Report on Hengyang Foxconn
A NGO, China Labor Watch, investigate Foxconn’s factory in Henyang, China and made this report. It showed that this factory violated PRC Employment Law and impaired workers’ rights. (1) Dispatching …
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