The 2013 strike over wages by farm workers in South Africa’s Western Cape.
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Inequality in organisations is difficult to shift because they are entrenched by the status quo.
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Aged care reform remains unfinished business for Labor. It made a start this week but more needs to come.
‘Cant wait to reach my new cage.’
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Workers have been quitting more than ever. But where are they going?
Plenty of places hiring, and more people looking for jobs.
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While the uptick in the unemployment rate in January may seem like bad news, the reason it rose actually shows the labor market returning to normal.
Employers are having a harder time recruiting new workers.
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A record share of workers quit their jobs in September. A human resources scholar explains how this is a trend that predates the pandemic.
The right prescription?
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The Bank of England is weighing up the costs of a change.
Canadian David Card, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics, stands for a portrait in Berkeley, Calif. Card, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, received the award for his research on minimum wages and immigration.
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Canadian economist David Card won the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating that large-scale immigration has no effect on the wages of native-born workers. In doing so, he’s challenged Economics 101.
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak survey a railway site in Manchester,
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Current wage rises will be short term, and expensive for consumers.
Informal workers in West Africa have been hardest hit by covid-19 lockdowns.
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Informal employment is significant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plight of informal workers needs to be highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Young people wait to register at a South African university in 2012. They are bearing the brunt of high levels of unemployment.
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Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
Unemployed men seek casual jobs from passers-by on a road in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Recent developments in the organisation of production have led to the decline of wage employment across much of the world.
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Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
Workers at a textile factory in Cape Town, South Africa. Differences between wages and executive pay isn’t currently in the public domain.
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Companies being required to go public with information about executive and workers pay packets is increasingly becoming the norm.
Intake workers assist visitors at an immigrant and refugee vaccine clinic set up by Global Medic in Toronto in April. Research suggests racialized immigrant women earn less money than other groups, regardless of how much training, education or networking they do.
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Racialized women immigrants still earn less than their peers on average even when well-qualified. It’s up to employers to remove employment barriers.
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A law from 1969 is still having an impact on nursing pay in Denmark today.
Students often cannot afford to take unpaid internships.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic making inequalities worse, has the time come to make sure all interns are paid?
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COVID-19 is shedding light on the impact of poverty, inequality and unemployment. This includes hardships women face and the burden placed on them to manage responsibilities every day.
Domesic workers in South Africa continue to be neglected.
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The outsourcing of domestic work contributes to the race, class and gender stereotypes of domestic work. It has neither elevated the status nor improved the working conditions of domestic workers.
COVID-19 has required many employees to work from home and set up home offices, incurring costs and bringing their employer into their private space.
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Some companies are moving permanently to remote work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. But are they simply passing on costs to employees while invading their personal space?
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Treasury’s inability to forecast wage growth suggests it doesn’t understand what cases it and why we need it.
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson tweeted in support of the new #PlayersTogether fund.
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They have every right to take their own lead on salary cuts during the pandemic.
When looking at your paycheck, don’t forget about inflation.
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In his State of the Union address, Trump said workers are experiencing a boom in wages. The numbers say different.
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The Conversation’s 2020 economic survey points to a dismal year, with no progress on many of the key measures that matter for Australians and an increase in the unemployment rate.
Michelle Williams arrives at the world premiere of ‘All the Money in the World.’
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A new analysis of over 400 actors shows that gender discrimination plays a major role in Hollywood salaries.
Extra education has been shown to pay off in the long run.
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Students who plan to get more education than is required for the career they hope to have end up earning higher salaries as a result, a new analysis shows.