A new study suggests disclosure laws to prevent forced labour in the clothing industry are a form of window dressing designed to ease the conscience of consumers rather than protecting workers.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Workers
Displaying 41 - 60 of 215 articles
If you’re stuck in the ‘wrong’ job, thinking about your skills and values can help you find the right one.
As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
The biggest obstacle to getting everyone back into the workplace is the fact that people who are working from home seem to be doing better — or at least no worse — than those who are not.
A recent study found that offering workers a choice of what type of reward they would like for offering good suggestions increased the volume of submissions and their creativity too.
Will an increase in wages make federal government workers happier and more efficient while dealing with the public on taxation, public safety and a multitude of other daily and often frustrating issues?
COVID-19 transformed the workforce, including in the public sector. A complete reversal to pre-pandemic work models is unlikely, but there’s lots at stake as employers contemplate the future of work.
National Day of Mourning should be used to challenge misconceptions about occupational health and safety, and advance safer workplaces for Canadians.
We look back to the 2013 Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,124 people and discuss how much — or how little — has changed for garment-worker conditions today.
A shift towards a more distributed, borderless global workforce will not necessarily lead to job losses for Canada, but it will be disruptive and require restructuring in the labour market.
To encourage the ‘economically inactive’ back to work, the government is changing pensions, childcare funding and creating more support for people with long-term illnesses.
A combination of a decline in workers under 35 and an ageing workforce is leading to labour shortages in many regions.
The problems facing the NHS have been years in the making: a result of poor decision-making, lack of political consensus and chronic underinvestment.
Research shows household debt plays a role in workers’ deciding to strike.
By experimenting with more part-time working patterns, companies could unlock a much-needed trove of new employees.
With real wages in many countries having been stagnant for years, the inflation surge has brought unions back to life.
What a ‘gig worker’ is remains ill-defined, which can suit employers. But the spread of the gig economy means more workers don’t have the same rights and protections as employees.
Ambulance services are facing unfair criticism for a situation which is not of their making. The workforce is in crisis, with system-wide pressures seriously hampering their ability to do their jobs.
People who experience mansplaining suffer lower organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and higher turnover intention, emotional exhaustion and psychological distress.
In some European countries, sick workers do not return to their jobs until they’re fully recovered. In other countries, the return is more gradual.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
-
Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
-
Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon
-
Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
-
Affiliate Research Associate, School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
-
Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
-
Associate Professor of Strategic Management, UMass Lowell
-
Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
-
Associate Professor of Management, UMass Lowell
-
Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
-
Global Fellow at the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, University of Arizona
-
Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
-
Leiden University
-
Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
-
Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
