Women in AI

Artificial Intelligence

Women at greater risk of AI job losses, warns ILO

Generative technology reinforcing and widening existing biases in the labour market, report claims

Sick pay

Sick Pay

UK’s new sick pay threshold will greatly benefit women, says TUC

Employment Rights Act changes should help thousands on zero-hour contracts and low pay

BBC Broadcasting House headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation in Portland Place

Discrimination

CM Murray: Unpicking the BBC’s response to John Davidson’s on-air Tourette’s

Risk assessment should have flagged that ill-placed microphone would pick up any involuntary, offensive tics at the BAFTAS

South African flag

Labour Reforms

South Africa to overhaul gig worker rights and parental leave

Proposed reforms would give platform subcontractors more protections and employee status

Human trafficking

Human Rights

Taiwan issues new guidelines to combat forced labour

Despite evident need for change, the Ministry of Labor’s release remains soft law

DEI

Why can’t the UK’s financial sector seem to promote women?

Private equity and hedge funds are dragging their feet on gender parity

Data Protection

Amazon ordered to end medical data collection by Italian watchdog

Lax policies meant personal data was being stored years after workers left company, Garante found

Platform Workers

Gig platforms fail to block termination protections for Seattle app workers

Appeals Court rejects argument that establishment of termination policies constitutes compelled speech

Disputes

No concept of wrongful termination in DIFC, judge rules

Free zone court throws out investment banking head’s “nonsensical” lawsuit

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