employment-and-welfare-studies

At age 24, workers born in the late 1990s are paid more than any cohort since those born in the 1950s Gen Z’s early careers are more financially rewarding than those of millennials, research suggests. Those typically born between 1997 to 2012 are experiencing a mini-rebound in pay packets, according to the research by the Resolution Foundation, in a seeming contrast to how the previous generation…

Ms Janmoni Gogoi, Research Scholar, Apex Professional University, Arunachal Pradesh Prof. (Dr) Jyotsna Raj, Professor, Apex Professional University, Arunachal Pradesh ABSTRACT The evolution of industrial laws in India is deeply intertwined with the historical growth of trade unions and the broader socio-economic transformations that shaped labour relations from the colonial period to the contempo…

Background Italy's Legislative Decree 81/2008 includes work-related stress and organisational factors in its definition of prevention. For young workers in unstable jobs, the gap between legal principles and daily experience may be wide. Objective To compare how young workers in Italy and Japan perceive physical and mental safety, stress, and economic risk, and to ask what the patterns suggest ab…

Abstract Our study examines the relationship between business cycles and mortality rates in Italy over the period 2004–2019. Using the unemployment rate as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions, we investigate how economic fluctuations affect mortality rates across causes of death, age groups, genders, and educational levels. The analysis relies on data from the National Institute of Statistics (I…

About 150 jobs have already been lost in Bolton as company reports 145% rise in profits and hands £20m to shareholders Business live – latest updates The online electrical goods seller AO World has revealed it is outsourcing up to 200 UK call centre roles to South Africa blaming rising labour costs, as it handed £20m to shareholders. As the retailer reported a jump in profits, it said it was shif…

Readers respond to an article about the obstacles young people face in the search for jobs The issue of youth unemployment is not a new one ( Young, ambitious and out of work: ‘I’ve gone from Oxford to zero jobs. It’s a bit of a fall’, 11 June ). When my husband and I graduated from university in 1980, it took him 18 months to find employment, not in his field of microbiology but as a trainee IT …

Sai Prarthana M, School of Excellence in Law, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai ABSTRACT The right to disconnect is the right of an employee to be unavailable and disconnect from work-related communication after the hours of employment. This right was introduced into India’s legislative framework, by Bill No.51 of 2025 in the winter session of the Parliament of India which started i…

Kate Dearden says reforms such as enhanced sick pay simply bring UK into line with other big economies Labour’s radical workers’ rights reforms have simply put the UK on a “level playing field” with other big economies, the employment minister, Kate Dearden, has said. The government’s Employment Rights Act became law last year, with specific provisions being implemented this year and next. Contin…

Monika Shokeen, Research Scholar, School of Law, Sushant University, Gurugram, Haryana. Dr. Sulakshana Banerjee Mukherjee, Associate Professor, School of Law, Sushant University, Gurugram, Haryana. ABSTRACT The Industrial Relation Code 2020 is a significant reform in labour law in independent India, which merges and revamps the large and unwieldy group of laws relating to the regulation of indust…

What it is Portable is a financial platform I built for HackNomics 2025, aimed at the 70 million Americans working in the gig economy. The core idea: upload one bank statement and the app handles the financial bookkeeping that gig workers typically do manually — or skip entirely, often at real cost. Why I built it Most financial tools are built around a W-2 and a single employer. For someone driv…

A new study finds that employer points systems, which penalize workers for absences regardless of the reason, are strongly associated with presenteeism, the practice of showing up to work while sick, and that these systems undermine the public health benefits of paid sick leave laws even in jurisdictions where such protections are on the books.

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Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing.  An entrepreneur at heart, […]

Abstract Background: Political crises and high inflation pose significant threats to public health, yet there is limited empirical data quantifying their combined impact on the general population in Pakistan. This study was conducted to bridge this gap by systematically investigating the human cost of the prevailing political and economic turmoil. Aim: The primary aim of this research was to asse…

The union representing 2,000 food and beverage workers at SoFi Stadium announced they reached a tentative agreement with Legends Hospitality Monday.

Government-funded JobsPlus trial in 10 neighbourhoods could be scalable nationwide, evaluation shows We would like to hear from young people in the UK about their job-hunting experiences A government-funded pilot of “hyperlocal” job support in 10 neighbourhoods across England has shown “promising early signs of effectiveness”, including for young people, and could be scalable nationwide, a new ev…

In 2022, Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Staten Island made history by voting to form a union. Their leader was fired Amazon worker Chris Smalls, who became something of a celebrity within the labor movement. Smalls left the union amid internal tensions, and has gone on to become a freelance activist since. He speaks with Kai Wright about being arrested while protesting the Jeff Bezos-f…

The 2022 football tournament cost me my freedom for three years. This year, I’ve lost my passport, safety and perhaps more What I saw in a town called Al-Shahaniyah on the outskirts of Doha, the capital of Qatar, seven years ago broke every rule and human right in the book. Desperate, hard-working people were on strike for not receiving their salaries for two, four or six months. Salaries that ra…