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Employee Termination Rights: What to Do If You Are Unfairly Fired

Employee Termination Rights: What to Do If You Are Unfairly Fired

Learning about Employee Termination Rights is key to employees who are suddenly or unfairly fired. To be rendered jobless without reasonable cause may be stressful both emotionally and financially, however the law offers various safeguards

Informal Sector Workers in 2025: Changes and Persistent Challenges

Informal Sector Workers in 2025: Changes and Persistent Challenges

The informal sector continues to be a key player in the global economies in 2025, hiring 80% of the Indian workforce and accounting for 45% of GDP, but the recent survey has revealed that the

What International Examples Teach Us: Labour Rights Protections in Developed Countries & Lessons for Emerging Economies

What International Examples Teach Us: Labour Rights Protections in Developed Countries & Lessons for Emerging Economies

Denmark, Norway, and Germany, as the developed nations, present the strong labor rights models that the emerging market economy, in particular, workers, can take up amidst the rush of industrialization to secure their rights. Denmark

Invisible Contract Work: Why Zero-Hour Contracts Are Risky for Workers

Invisible Contract Work: Why Zero-Hour Contracts Are Risky for Workers

Zero-hour contracts promise flexibility but often trap workers in precarious "invisible" arrangements where employers offer no guaranteed hours while expecting constant availability. Such contracts transfer all the risk onto employees, such as minimum wage, unreliable

The Reality of “Flexibility”: When Flexible Jobs Become Unstable Livelihoods

The Reality of “Flexibility”: When Flexible Jobs Become Unstable Livelihoods

Flexible jobs are often marketed as the answer to modern workers’ desires for autonomy, better work–life balance, and freedom from the 9–5 grind. Flexibility in many cases, particularly to caregivers, students, and people with disabilities,

The Future of Work in a Climate-Changed World: Are Workers Prepared?

The Future of Work in a Climate-Changed World: Are Workers Prepared?

Climate change is transforming the world workforce with extreme weather, heat stress, and changing job requirements, with business losses estimated at 2-3 percent per degree over 20 °C and up to two point four trillion

Why Unions Still Matter in 2026: The New Wave of Worker Organizing

Why Unions Still Matter in 2026: The New Wave of Worker Organizing

By 2026, unions will still be needed because of increasing inequality, the gig economy, and job insecurity caused by AI, the union membership will be at 9.9% (14.3 million workers) despite the declines in the

What Qualifies as Wrongful Dismissal?

What Qualifies as Wrongful Dismissal?

It is necessary that employees as well as employers understand what constitutes wrongful dismissal in the current changing workplace environment. Wrongful termination happens when an employee is dismissed against the employment legislation, employment conditions, or

What’s in the Employment Rights Bill?

What’s in the Employment Rights Bill?

The Employment Rights Bill is one of the significant changes to the way a workplace functions as it provides better protection to workers and their responsibilities to the employer are better defined. In the quest

Employee Was Wrongfully Terminated After Failing Polygraph Test: Legal Insights

Employee Was Wrongfully Terminated After Failing Polygraph Test: Legal Insights

Polygraph tests, or lie detector tests, are widely considered with controversy and thus, they are employed by a few companies during their investigations. However, in some cases, making polygraph tests a requisite for employment can