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Columbia-based call centre workers face pressure to accept home surveillance

Columbia-based call centre workers face pressure to accept home surveillance

Invading into personal time at home, Colombia-based call centre workers are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employers install cameras in their homes to monitor work performance. The company provide outsourced customer

Why Manufacturing Needs Boost For American Jobs?

Why Manufacturing Needs Boost For American Jobs?

 US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and US Secretary for Commerce Gina Raimondo have been working towards putting together their infrastructural proposal for overall American workforce development plan. Their proposal suggests a $100 million dollar investment

Why companies aren’t paying more despite labour shortages

Why companies aren’t paying more despite labour shortages

Much of the labour shortages are occurring in industries where profit margins are already thin. It mainly focusses on the leisure and hospitality industry, where the risk of profits turning into losses is already high.

Amazon Company Meddles With Unionization

Amazon Company Meddles With Unionization

According to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the American e-commerce giant Amazon has violated labor law. The company, apparently has interfered and influenced the decision of workers working in the Bassemer Alabama warehouse and

Biden Administration Puts Root Causes of Migration Strategy Into Action

Biden Administration Puts Root Causes of Migration Strategy Into Action

In line with the President Joe Biden’s initiatives to work towards actualizing the migration mitigation strategy, the US Department of Labor will now award upto $20million to support workers’ rights, fight labor abuses in El

Canada proposes sweeping changes to enhance protections for temporary foreign workers

Canada proposes sweeping changes to enhance protections for temporary foreign workers

The Canadian government is taking various steps to implement necessary changes to strengthen protections for temporary foreign workers in the country. As per media reports, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough

Labour Party Makes Move To Award Gig Economy With Proper Worker Rights

Labour Party Makes Move To Award Gig Economy With Proper Worker Rights

In announcing the launch of their party’s new plans, Labour Party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner has recently announced the ‘new deal for working people.’ According to the new deal, this works to help employees in

How Child Abuse In Bangladeshi Leather Business Is Going Unnoticed

How Child Abuse In Bangladeshi Leather Business Is Going Unnoticed

Bangladesh leather industry is making despicable use of children to meet its manufacturing needs. According to a human rights study, children as young as seven years have been forced to work with hazardous chemicals, heavy

Is there a labour shortage in America?

Is there a labour shortage in America?

As per the data released in June from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 9.5 million Americans were unemployed and are looking for work. Simultaneously, there has been an influx in job openings

Canadian Company Sanctioned By America Over Forced Labor Charges

Canadian Company Sanctioned By America Over Forced Labor Charges

The City of Guelph in Ontario Canada is in news for the wrong reasons as a solar panel manufacturer based there has been sanctioned by the US government for indulging into forced labor. This subsidiary