The App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU), on behalf of an ex-Uber driver and a courier, has launched legal action against Uber on Tuesday over their racist facial recognition system. ADCU filed the case after the unfair dismissal of a …
Germany’s Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced on Wednesday that the country will stop paying compensation to unvaccinated workers who are forced to quarantine after COVID-19 exposure. The government had been paying workers who are sent into quarantine for at …
Hundreds of Yodel delivery drivers on Wednesday have decided to strike over wages and conditions, potentially adding to disruption caused by truck driver shortages and threatening to cause delivery delays. A massive 98.2% of delivery drivers voted to take strike …
France has suspended 3,000 health workers without pay for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of a deadline this week. “A large number of these suspensions will be temporary,” Health Minister Olivier Veran told RTL radio, adding that the …
France announced on Thursday that it has granted naturalization for 12,012 foreign workers who worked for the country’s front line amid the pandemic health crisis. Marlène Schiappa, the Minister Delegate for Citizenship, announced the citizenship admissions for the frontline workers …
A total of 95% of workers at Erdington’s GKN Automotive’s plant in Birmingham have voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike action to prevent the closure of the factory. The company announced earlier their plans to close the factory and move …
Major global apparel brands on Wednesday have agreed to extend for two years a pre-existing agreement with garment workers and factory owners in Bangladesh to ensure workplace safety standards. The deal’s deputy director Joris Oldenziel and representatives for UNI Global …
International human rights group Amnesty International has accused Qatari authorities of failing to investigate the deaths of thousands of migrant workers over the past decade. Amnesty International documented in a 56-page report published on Thursday how Qatari authorities were “routinely …
Union leaders for Amazon’s workforce in Japan claim that Amazon is using its Performance Improvement Plans, or PIPs, to target workers and force them out with hostile practices. The Amazon Japan Union, part of the Tokyo Managers Union (MU), have …
Automaker Volkswagen has agreed to a wage deal with one of Germany’s largest unions IG Metall for 120,000 employees that make up approximately 18% of its workforce. Negotiations between Volkswagen and IG Metall went for around 14 hours and resulted …