Category: Employment

Europe’s workers face bleak winter as firms ‘profiteer’, says union chief

Millions ‘holding on with their fingertips’ due to high interest rates, squeezed wages and Covid costs, says the European TUC boss, Esther LynchWorkers across Europe are “holding on with their...

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Thai police raid former Tesco clothing supplier at centre of sweatshop claims

VK Garment factory in Mae Sot is subject of a UK lawsuit against the supermarket from 130 ex-workersThai police have raided a clothing factory previously used by Tesco that is the subject of a UK lawsuit over alleged sweatshop...

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Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’

Exclusive: Supermarket faces landmark lawsuit in the UK from 130 former workers alleging negligenceWorkers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by TescoBurmese workers that produced F+F jeans for Tesco in Thailand...

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Neglect Africa now and we will face labour shortages globally, IMF warns

West’s response to effects of Covid and Ukraine war condemned as shortsighted ‘collective failure’ to invest in future human capitalThe international community would be “playing with fire” if it...

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