On 6 February 2023, New Jersey Governor signed into law Assembly Bill No. A1474 / S511,1, known as the "Temporary Worker Bill of Rights," concerns the employment and protection of temporary labourers.
It aims to eliminate pay disparities and increase oversight of temporary staffing agencies.
In a new report, Adecco, in collaboration with Ius Laboris, analysed the wages of Adecco associates from 17 countries compared to national minimum wages.
It shows that agency work can be a model for the flexibility workers and businesses look for in this digital age of rapid economic change, allowing agency workers to make a decent living.
The paper also looks into the concept of wage and wage setting more generally in these times of inflation.
A technical meeting on the future of work in the oil and gas industry was held in Geneva from 28 November to 2 December 2022, as decided at its 341st Session (March 2021) by the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The meeting discussed opportunities and challenges for a just transition to a future of work that contributes to sustainable development in its economic, social and environmental dimensions.
ILO just released the Global Wage 2022-2023 Report, one of its flagship reports on wage trends and policies at national and global levels that looks at the global economy and labour market context and the impact that the pandemic has had on wages.
This edition shows that, in the first half of 2022, there was the first negative global wage growth recorded since the start of the 21st Century.
The proposal to revise the Employment Protection Act (EPA), presented on June 2021, was finally adopted.
The reform described as the “greatest reform of Swedish employment law in modern times” entered into force on 30 June 2022 and applied for the first time as of 1 October 2022.
On 20 June 2022, Puerto Rico’s governor signed into law Act No. 41-2022 (the Act), amending and partially repealing the Labour Transformation and Flexibility Act (LTFA),
It aims to reincorporate statutory benefits and employee rights that were eliminated by LTFA, in many cases reversing the changes it had introduced.
On 23 June 2022, the Ministry of Employment and Labour released a series of proposals to the working hour and the wage system in South Korea, aiming to give to give employers and workers more flexibility post-covid.
Among the proposed measures there is a plan to increase the period for calculating overtime under a so-called flexible working hours system.