worker rights
Indonesia: Mass strikes against ‘catastrophic’ assault on workers’ rights and environment
October 8, 2020The omnibus bill replaces 79 separate laws, reducing workers’ holidays and severance, allowing companies to keep workers on temporary contracts, and removing the requirement for environmental assessments of business projects.
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Trump Labor Dept. would turn more workers into ‘independent contractors’
September 28, 2020Trump’s latest gift to big business takes employee rights away from millions.
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Top consumer brands, big banks linked to brutal palm oil worker abuses
September 24, 2020Some of the brands you buy every week at the grocery store have links to brutal abuse of workers in Southeast Asia's palm oil industry.
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Trumka: Dems ‘have to pay attention to working people’ to win
August 19, 2020“You can’t fix the economy”—Trump’s mantra—“until you fix the pandemic,” Trumka said.
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S.F. judge: Uber, Lyft drivers are ‘employees’ with worker rights, not ‘contractors’
August 11, 2020The big ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft break California law by misclassifying their drivers as “independent contractors,” not “employees” with worker rights, a judge has decided.
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