About 3 million workers on minimum wage to receive 4.75% pay rise in Fair Work Commission ruling
Unions had demanded a 6% pay increase for those on minimum wage after war in the Middle East pushed inflation higherFollow our Australia news live blo...
Greener pasture of a shepherd’s life lures Chinese workers penned in by ‘996’ jobs
When an Inner Mongolia farmer sought two herders to tend his 3,000 sheep, he was swamped with applicants including graduates, factory labourers and wh...
Young asylum seekers far more likely to be assessed as adults by immigration officers than by social workers
Local authorities deem UK arrivals to be children more than twice as often as border forces, Home Office data showsYoung asylum seekers in the UK are ...
Guzman y Gomez faces class action from US workers over closed stores
Mexican-themed Australian fast food chain accused of terminating staff without adequate pay or notice as it pulls out of the USAmerican workers at Guz...
Number of suspected Ebola cases in DR Congo passes 900 as health workers face attacks and shortages
World Health Organization says outbreak poses ‘very high’ risk for Congo, but risk of disease spreading globally remains lowCongolese authorities say ...
Local US newspaper workers allege Hearst is trying to ‘destroy unions’
Media company says it is ‘committed to good faith bargaining’ amid claims including contract violationWorkers at local newspapers owned by Hearst alle...
WiseTech begins redundancies – but omits ‘AI’ from emails to Chinese employees, workers say
ASX-listed company announced in February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countriesGet our breaking news email, fre...
Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition
Exclusive: Bodycam footage shared with the Guardian shows agents forced workers out of a van in what a judge has called ‘unlawful’ arrestNewly release...
AI Is Rewriting What Makes Workers Valuable — Take This 3-Part Test That Defines What Matters Now
As AI agents master execution, the real divide in the workplace is no longer between managers and employees — but between people who merely follow ins...
Samsung workers set to strike at worst possible time
More than 47,000 Samsung Electronics workers are gearing up for an 18-day strike after bonus payment negotiations between the company and its union co...
Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’
Exclusive: Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructureAs Meta races to recenter itself around artificial i...
New York hotel workers union reaches deal to avoid strike ahead of World Cup
Eight-year contract between union and hospitality industry group will boost pay of hotel housekeepers to over $100,000A deal between a New York hotel ...
Thousands of U.S. countertop workers could have damaged lungs, safety expert says
Over 550 men in California have fallen ill after cutting natural or factory-made stone countertops. But epidemiologists say this isn't just a Californ...
Workers racing to turn reflecting pool blue for Trump may be at risk, union warns
Union representative concerned about safety as workers rush to finish repainting DC pool before 250th celebrationsWorkers renovating one of Washington...
New York commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike
Worker at the Long Island Rail Road, serving the eastern New York metropolitan area, walked off the job on SaturdayNorth America’s largest commuter ra...
US workers overwhelmingly support union-backed policies on AI, poll says
Nine out of 10 workers express support for policies on artificial intelligence that labor unions may fight forUS workers overwhelmingly support pro-wo...
GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well...
