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The fight for safe rates for transportation workers in South Korea

In the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of East Asia’s most advanced digital economies, with e-commerce, ride-hailing, and other services all growing. But for many truckers and …

Being Naïve or Putting Business First?

The European Union would like to believe that it is acting robustly and cohesively to promote human rights and democracy globally. The EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024, …

Time is running out for Indonesia’s labor unions

The protests against Indonesia’s labor reform bill started in January 2020. Since then, trade union members have been tear-gassed by police during nationwide demonstrations and riots, threatened with jail time …

U.S. Bans All Cotton and Tomatoes From Xinjiang Region of China

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a ban on imports of cotton and tomatoes from the Xinjiang area of China, as well as all products made with those materials, citing …

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Суд Сеула обязал Японию выплатить компенсацию за сексуальное рабство во время войны

Япония осудила как «совершенно неприемлемое» постановление южнокорейского суда о возмещении ущерба женщинам, которые были сексуально порабощены японскими военными до и во время ...

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Key elements of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

As regards investment, the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) will be the most ambitious agreement that China has ever concluded with a third country. In addition to rules against the forced …

Staring down the barrel of a landmark judgment on its workers’ status, Uber folds

Uber has settled a legal challenge that struck at the heart of its business model and could have resulted in its drivers and riders being classified as employees, after three …

Fruit-picking wage-theft laws not enough to deal with farm-work exploitation

After speaking mainly to working holidaymakers and other migrants workers online for six months, I drove 2000 kilometres from my home office in Adelaide and began visiting beachside backpacker hostels, …

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Глобальные импортеры перчаток переосмысливают отношения с малазийским производителем

Два основных глобальных импортера перчаток пересматривают свои отношения с малазийским производителем перчаток после того, как правительственные рейды обнаружили ужасное жилье для иностранных рабочих в двух его дочерних компаниях. Кимберли-Кларк, американка ...

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Плата за доставку еды предложена для оплаты труда рабочих за гиг-экономику

Пассажиры, доставляющие еду, будут защищены в рамках схемы компенсации, финансируемой за счет сбора с клиентов на заказы на еду в соответствии с знаменательным предложением, которое будет представлено правительству Нового Южного Уэльса. Правительство …

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