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Why Are Tech Companies Still Laying Off Workers?

Why Are Tech Companies Still Laying Off Workers?

The tech industry has always moved in cycles, but the last few years have been especially turbulent. Even with rising stock prices, better earnings, and renewed investor confidence, large firms are still cutting staff. The

Inclusion by Default: Making Rights Real for People with Disabilities

Inclusion by Default: Making Rights Real for People with Disabilities

An inclusive society begins by appreciating that disability is a normal human diversity and not a problem to remedy. Awareness is good, but the inclusion based on rights requires accessible settings, equal services and policies

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