One of the major aims of the reforms is to bring informal-sector and gig-workers into the formal labour system. The codes specify greater social-security coverage and make it easier to register workers via digital portals. 

Labour Laws 2025: How India’s labour code reforms impact employees and employers

Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace laureate, was convicted on Monday (Jan 1) of violating Bangladesh's labour laws, news agency AFP reported citing a prosecutor. Prosecutor Khurshid Alam Khan told AFP, "Professor Yunus and three of his Grameen Telecom colleagues were convicted under labour laws and sentenced to six months in simple imprisonment".

Bangladesh: Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted of violating labour laws

There are a number of social media influencers who are quite young and although the internet has given them a lot of popularity and income, there are not many laws protecting them from exploitation.

UK must protect child influencers from exploitation through labour laws, says report

The past two years have seen a drastic change in the work culture after the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic started spreading across the world at the beginning of 2020, forcing countries to implement partial or complete lockdown.

4 days work, 3 days off? India labour code may transform office culture, if passed

Apple said Monday that it had placed a key assembler of its iPhones on probation after the Taiwanese company was found to have concealed violations of labor rules for students employed at its factories in China.

Apple puts key contractor on probation over labour abuses in China

Malaysia will review its labour laws to cut an "over dependence" on foreign labour and address other issues, its prime minister said on Thursday, amid simmering discontent against overseas workers who make up 46 per cent of the labour force.

Malaysia to reform labour laws to cut 'over-dependence' on foreigners: PM

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the introduction of a bill that will codify relevant provisions of four existing laws and intends to increase the legislative protection of minimum wage to the entire workforce.

Cabinet approves bill to codify labour laws, increase protection of minimum wage

Ivanka's keynote address at an entrepreneur summit in India will be themed "Women First, Prosperity for All"

Ivanka Trump in India, mum about working conditions of employees

Labour bill, if passed in the Parliament, will give freedom to companies to set work conditions and tailor pay

French labour law poised for passage amid protest

Seeking to escape poverty at home, some one million registered Myanmar migrant workers form the backbone of Thailand's manual workforce

Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits troubled diaspora in Thailand

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