India's Four Labour Codes Set For Full Rollout In 2026, EPFO 3.0 To Speed Up Claims

India's four Labour Codes, effective from November 2025, will be fully operationalised in 2026 with rules ensuring minimum wages and universal social security. Minister Mandaviya hailed the 2025 reforms, announcing EPFO 3.0 for faster withdrawals and pensions. Employers welcome modernisation, but central trade unions oppose the codes as anti-worker and plan a general strike on February 12, 2026.

Tech's war on "woke" is a war on workers

CEOs with lowest-paid US workers ‘focused on own short-term windfall’ – report

CEOs spending more on stock buybacks than capital investments and employee retirement plan contributions

“Donald Trump Is a Scab”: <span class="caps">UAW</span> President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed

Labor rights were in the spotlight during the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as union leaders, including UAW President Shawn Fain, took to the stage. We play part of Fain’s address, in which he called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “a scab” and praised Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s labor record.

‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shade

Florida has passed legislation banning local safety rules for outdoor workers, despite heat stress set to cost global economy $2.4tn by 2030

“He’s a Fake”: Robert Kuttner on How J.D. Vance Disguises His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism

We speak with journalist Robert Kuttner about Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to fame in 2016 after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his upbringing in Appalachia. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with the backing of right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, who spent $10 million on his candidacy. While he was a vocal critic of Trump’s politics, once comparing him to Hitler, Vance has since embraced the MAGA movement and is now one of the most vocal defenders of the former president. Vance’s elevation is “very dangerous” because it lets Republicans pretend to care about working-class voters, says Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. “Vance is much more effective at connecting Trump’s cultural and social and racist populism to what looks like pocketbook populism, except it’s a fake,” he says. “We are really screwed if we can’t find somebody who can beat this ticket — and the ticket is beatable. You just need a stronger candidate than Biden.”