Labor

Key Takeaways Understand South Korean labor laws: Familiarize yourself with employment contracts, working hours, minimum wage, leave policies, and termination procedures to ensure compliance and a fair working environment. Navigate work permits and visas: Obtain the necessary work permits and visas for non-Korean employees, ensuring compliance with immigration laws and maintaining accurate…

Fiction. A digital startup disrupts the market by establishing the 20 hour work week. It’s just another middle man business. Like Uber. Or Air B&B. Only it’s not really like either of those. The app helps halftime workers find work. It’s like job sharing with a built in union. We…

Writers Guild strikers need support now that talks have broken down. At first, strikes are exhilarating. But they take a steep emotional and financial toll as they wear on: That’s something I heard from my fellow union members when I belonged to Local 1 of the Newspaper Guild. Members of…

AI is now everywhere, but it doesn’t exist as autonomously as it makes it seem. AI is increasingly prevalent in a large variety of industries, many of which hide the countless workers behind the curtain making it function, and I am not just talking about the engineers who create it. …

Second update from Mitun Seguin from Transdev: The restroom cleaning schedule is based on usage. Restroom that are used frequently and serviced twice a day and seven days a week. Update. We got a statement from Transdev regarding bathrooms and negotiations. This is the statement in full. We contacted them…

More than a dozen US states have just reported their best job markets in their history. Unemployment rates were lower last month than a year earlier in 23 states, and stable in another seven. In 40 of them there was a significant increase in the number of people working. In…

by Jane Slaughter I appreciate Landis’s Detroit Socialist article and agree with some of his points. In particular, I agree that we haven’t yet figured out how to make an election campaign — except for Bernie’s — feel like and be a movement, rather than a lot of hard work…

Research shows AI-driven platforms are already standard for employment and social media; decentralized networks could prove even more disruptive — By Philo Uwamaria and Paula Klein Introduced slowly at first, digital platforms are rapidly becoming ubiquitous to how we communicate, work, and entertain ourselves. They are upending traditional human resource structures and forward-thinking researchers see even more far-reaching societal impact to come.

Again, my observations regarding the writers strike have received knee jerk reactions stating the default position that we should defend all unions no matter what. That refusing to support any union for whatever reason would be destroying solidarity which we so desperately need to defeat (i.e. bring to the table)…