labor-economics

Kate Dearden says reforms such as enhanced sick pay simply bring UK into line with other big economies Labour’s radical workers’ rights reforms have simply put the UK on a “level playing field” with other big economies, the employment minister, Kate Dearden, has said. The government’s Employment Rights Act became law last year, with specific provisions being implemented this year and next. Contin…

Monika Shokeen, Research Scholar, School of Law, Sushant University, Gurugram, Haryana. Dr. Sulakshana Banerjee Mukherjee, Associate Professor, School of Law, Sushant University, Gurugram, Haryana. ABSTRACT The Industrial Relation Code 2020 is a significant reform in labour law in independent India, which merges and revamps the large and unwieldy group of laws relating to the regulation of indust…

What it is Portable is a financial platform I built for HackNomics 2025, aimed at the 70 million Americans working in the gig economy. The core idea: upload one bank statement and the app handles the financial bookkeeping that gig workers typically do manually — or skip entirely, often at real cost. Why I built it Most financial tools are built around a W-2 and a single employer. For someone driv…

A new study finds that employer points systems, which penalize workers for absences regardless of the reason, are strongly associated with presenteeism, the practice of showing up to work while sick, and that these systems undermine the public health benefits of paid sick leave laws even in jurisdictions where such protections are on the books.

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Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing.  An entrepreneur at heart, […]

Abstract Background: Political crises and high inflation pose significant threats to public health, yet there is limited empirical data quantifying their combined impact on the general population in Pakistan. This study was conducted to bridge this gap by systematically investigating the human cost of the prevailing political and economic turmoil. Aim: The primary aim of this research was to asse…

The union representing 2,000 food and beverage workers at SoFi Stadium announced they reached a tentative agreement with Legends Hospitality Monday.

Government-funded JobsPlus trial in 10 neighbourhoods could be scalable nationwide, evaluation shows We would like to hear from young people in the UK about their job-hunting experiences A government-funded pilot of “hyperlocal” job support in 10 neighbourhoods across England has shown “promising early signs of effectiveness”, including for young people, and could be scalable nationwide, a new ev…

In 2022, Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Staten Island made history by voting to form a union. Their leader was fired Amazon worker Chris Smalls, who became something of a celebrity within the labor movement. Smalls left the union amid internal tensions, and has gone on to become a freelance activist since. He speaks with Kai Wright about being arrested while protesting the Jeff Bezos-f…

The 2022 football tournament cost me my freedom for three years. This year, I’ve lost my passport, safety and perhaps more What I saw in a town called Al-Shahaniyah on the outskirts of Doha, the capital of Qatar, seven years ago broke every rule and human right in the book. Desperate, hard-working people were on strike for not receiving their salaries for two, four or six months. Salaries that ra…

Background Economic downturns before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been accompanied by adverse psychosocial outcomes. In Thailand, evidence on how individual-level socioeconomic position (SEP) relates to key psychosocial issues remains limited, and a standardized, simple SEP index is unavailable. We examined the associations between an individual SEP index and a…

Part of Teaching an AI Agent to Make Beautiful Charts A fresh college degree used to come with a quiet edge in the job market. New grads had better odds of landing work than the average worker, and that edge held for as long as anyone tracked it. Not anymore. They now face higher unemployment than the workforce as a whole, and the gap is the widest on record. What makes this strange is the timing…

Teenagers looking for summer jobs face a tough labor market. But the personal benefits are huge.

Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country Canadian warehouse workers have signed the first-ever collective agreement with Walmart, a breakthrough labour organizers are calling a “historic and powerful step”. But the union says the deal with a corporation long hostile to organized labour is only an opening salvo in a broader…

Unite Here Local 11, the union representing SoFi Stadium workers, votes to authorize a strike less than a week before the venue will host a World Cup game.

Image generated by ChatGPT This morning (June 5), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its “Employment Situation” report (often called the “jobs report”) for May. The report showed a stronger than expected increase in employment.  The jobs report has two estimates of the change in employment during the month: one estimate from the establishment survey, … Continue reading "Surprisingly St…

Companies are spending more on executive perks such as luxury relocations and private jets, underscoring a widening divide between the rewards offered to corporate leaders and the more modest pay gains available to much of the workforce.

U.S. employers added jobs for the third month in a row in May, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%. But wage gains softened and likely failed to keep pace with rising prices.

On May 21, 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion that the right to strike is protected under the International Labor Organization (ILO) Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (Convention No. 87).