China's highest governing bodies mandated minimum wage, maximum hours, and algorithm transparency for 200M+ gig workers. Apps must stop sending orders when drivers hit time limits. Compliance by 2027.

Tens of thousands of unorganized workers are demanding substantial wage increases to keep up with spiking rent, utilities and ...

China requires artificial-intelligence systems to pass an ideological test before public release. Under regulations reinforced by amendments to the Cybersecurity Law that took effect in January, ...

Advocacy groups in California are pushing for a $30 minimum wage in Oakland despite research suggesting the policy showed "negative outcomes" across the Golden State. It was reported on March 30 that ...

The decision marks a break with the collective decision-making model that has prevailed for most of the country’s recent history. Vietnam’s National Assembly today unanimously elected To Lam, the head ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam unanimously elected Communist Party General Secretary To Lam as president for a five-year term, consolidating his control over both the party and the state. The move ...

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In 2012, in what The New York Times called “the biggest wave of job actions in the history of America’s fast-food industry,” workers in New York City walked off their jobs and held a protest demanding ...

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A memory from the Massapequa, N.Y., public schools of the late 1950s and early 1960s: We had regular desk drills. The school alarm would pierce the air and teachers would instruct us to slide from our ...

In May 1933, the United States was at the height of the Great Depression and it was decades before the Civil Rights Revolution ended the racist apartheid Jim Crow system. The rallying cry of the ...

God drew me out of Marxism to himself. But that’s only half the story. Several episodes in season 5 of The Chosen begin with Jesus and the apostles gathered for the Last Supper, a Passover meal. In a ...