Unions in Nigeria are protesting the increasing price of living under the country’s new President Bola Tinubu. President Tinubu scrapped the subsidies that cost the Nigerian government $5.07 billion and in turn caused prices of many goods in the country to substantially
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic gospels of the New Testament. Not much is known about St.
The U.S. wants Mexico’s government to build strong institutions to protect worker rights as companies aiming to avoid supply chain disruptions in far-off production spots bring more jobs to the country, a top U.S. labor official told Reuters. Mexico has begun to
Summer camp typically evokes images of playing “Capture the Flag,” staying in cozy cabins, singing at campfires and perhaps swimming in a lake. For a group of nearly 600 teenagers from northern Virginia, summer camp was just a little different from the
Tech firm Ultra has developed an artificial intelligence-powered tool it believes has helped analysts identify products coming from China through the platform Temu that were created using forced labor, possibly from the Uyghur population. “We’re looking at Temu from the perspective of
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a complaint against USC, the Pac-12 and the NCAA, alleging that the parties have misclassified athletes as “student-athletes” rather than employees. The NLRB called all three entities joint employers of college athletes and said
A wife needs help and hires a house cleaner, but her spouse finds it “incredibly stressful” to have a maid in their home. “Carolyn made explicit [the writer’s] selfishness,” said one reader who recommended this column, “when she compared [their] low-level anxiety
South Korea’s labour minister said on Thursday that lifting the weekly work hour cap to 69 hours from 52 will give working mothers more choice and help them raise children amid growing concerns over the country’s falling birth rates. The government says
NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith did not hold back in calling out the NFL in an interview last week, calling the league “the largest group of bullies in the labor market.” Smith, who was elected to the position in 2009,
Robert Griffin III was part of an alternate broadcast for the Fiesta Bowl between No. 3 TCU and No. 2 Michigan, but he had to cut out early. The former Washington quarterback took a phone call late in the third quarter, despite