The Pulse – Zoom session with Dr. Budu
Joy News, 04 November 2022
TV: Joy News - The Pulse – live TV interview (Zoom session with Dr Budu on the Pulse from 44:50s – 55:26sec /)
Digital platform work in Pakistan
The Express Tribune, 21 October 2022
Digital platforms are the latest form of Internet-enabled technologies which have found ingenious ways to offer goods and services to global consumers. Digital platforms have made their way into poorer countries like our own as well.
Digital platform work in Pakistan
The Express Tribune, 21 October 2022
Digital platforms have found ingenious ways to offer goods and services to global consumers
Gig workers deprived of fair pay, benefits
The Daily Star, 18 October 2022
he majority of workers in Bangladesh's gig economy do not receive fair pay, benefits or even a contract from online platforms, revealing the awful situation in ensuring the rights of those workers, according to a recent study.
Fairwork Ratings Bangladesh 2022 launched
Financial Express, 18 October 2022
The Fairwork Ratings Bangladesh 2022 has been launched on October 17, 2022. The report portrays the working condition of the gig workers of Bangladesh working with 9 platforms - Chaldal.com, Foodpanda, Hello Task, HungryNaki, Obhai, Pathao, etc.
Study: Informal online workers don’t get fair wages
Dhaka Tribune, 18 October 2022
As Bangladesh has no national minimum or living wage policies, platforms have no legal obligation to ensure a wage floor.
App-based economy expands, leaving workers unprotected
The Business Standard, 17 October 2022
The growing popularity of on-demand online booking for a wide range of services – from ride sharing to repairing tasks or house help – or e-commerce orders is causing a mushrooming growth of relevant online platforms in the country.
OPINION | RIP gig economy? How platform workers can survive a string of economic shocks
News24, 15 October 2022
Platform workers, already more vulnerable to high inflation and high fuel costs, are also more vulnerable to job losses, and those still working are experiencing expenses exceeding their hourly pay.
Launch event of second Fairwork Bangladesh report on 17 October
The Business Standard, 15 October 2022
The Fairwork Report 2022 for Bangladesh is going to launch on October 17. The launch event will take place from 3pm to 5pm at the Brac Centre Inn.
Biden’s new labor rule tests the gig economy as we know it
Quartz, 12 October 2022
The Department of Labor aims to curb the “misclassification” of workers and expand their rights
‘Gig work’ rule is in Biden administration’s crosshairs, sending DoorDash and Lyft stocks to all-time lows
MarketWatch, 12 October 2022
Labor Department proposes new rule that could change the status of many workers from independent contractors to employees, sending shares in companies that built their business models on contractor workforce plunging.
Biden Proposal to Make Gig Workers Employees Sinks Uber and Lyft Stock
Vice, 11 October 2022
The proposed rule rolls back a Trump administration rule that made it easier to classify workers as independent contractors.