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Minimum Wage Rights Explained | What Workers Are Legally Owed

Minimum Wage Rights Explained | What Workers Are Legally Owed

Minimum wage laws decide the floor pay for each hour of work, and the question “what are you entitled to” stays on every payslip like a quiet note. The piece looks at rules, gaps, and

Workplace Safety and Shared Responsibility in Modern Workplaces

Workplace Safety and Shared Responsibility in Modern Workplaces

Workplace safety sits at the front of every shift, every desk, every site. A safe work environment depends on shared habits, a steady safety culture at work, and clear employee safety responsibility within occupational health

Gig Workers’ Rights in India: Social Security, Platform Duties, and 2025 Updates

Gig Workers’ Rights in India: Social Security, Platform Duties, and 2025 Updates

Gig and platform workers in India are now legally recognised, and have an avenue to social security benefits under the Code on Social Security, 2020, but are not considered as being employees in any traditional

A compilation of Trade Unions and Why They Still Matter in Today’s Workforce

A compilation of Trade Unions and Why They Still Matter in Today’s Workforce

Trade unions have been historically significant in the fight for fair practices and tools for defending workers in various industries. From working on better wages to fighting for safer workplaces, trade unions are as significant

How to Protect Yourself from Unfair Dismissal

How to Protect Yourself from Unfair Dismissal

Losing a job is hard — but it’s much harder when it seems that you were terminated unfairly. Unfair dismissal occurs when an employee is fired for no legitimate reason or for not following a

Effective Ways to Create Equality in the Workplace

Effective Ways to Create Equality in the Workplace

Promoting equality at the workplace is vital towards having a healthy, motivated as well as a productive team. The employees are motivated to work together and be creative when they feel appreciated and treated equally.

Mental Health Rights at Work: Your Protections, Accommodations, and How to Use Them

Mental Health Rights at Work: Your Protections, Accommodations, and How to Use Them

Employees are allowed to have a safe and healthy working environment that safeguards the mental wellbeing, reasonable accommodations, and facilitates equitable and non-stigmatized care and care leaves. The rights encompass the right to be safeguarded

Women Leaders Driving Change in Global Labor Rights Movements

Women Leaders Driving Change in Global Labor Rights Movements

Women all over the world have been leading the campaigns of labor rights where they demand good wages, equal treatment and a safer working environment. Since clothing sweatshops in the Asian region up to farmland

The Rise of Freelancers: Understanding Their Legal Protections in a Changing Workforce

The Rise of Freelancers: Understanding Their Legal Protections in a Changing Workforce

Freelancing is an emerging trend of work among the millions of people worldwide who choose a flexible and independent workplace rather than traditional employment. With the growth of the digital economy, freelancers are playing significant

Thinking of Quitting? Here’s What You Need to Know About Resignation and Notice Rules

Thinking of Quitting? Here’s What You Need to Know About Resignation and Notice Rules

The employees have the right to quit as stipulated by the notice period provisions contained in their contract of employment. This is normally between 30 and 90 days, which varies according to the company and