Sri Lanka’s Colombo Port City Economic Commission (CPCEC) has facilitated 14,300 foreign worker visas while operating with only 16 staff and does not actively follow up after workers enter the country on
Saudi Arabia has announced a major overhaul of its labour enforcement penalties, aiming to tighten oversight of employment practices and protect workers’ rights. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development declared
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Sri Lanka experienced a notable spike in labor unrest during the first nine months of 2025, according to the Ministry of Labor’s latest progress report. The country recorded 13 strikes during this
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On the islands dotting the Krishna river in Telangana, there are no roads, no phone networks, and no easy way out. It was in these isolated fishing camps that Erukala Raju, a
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Thousands of baristas at nearly 100 Starbucks locations are on strike this holiday season, picketing outside the iconic cafes for a contract. While the corporate coffee chain has claimed little to no disruption to its bottom
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Migrant worker outflows from Asia dropped 7% in 2024 to around 6.5 million, marking the first decline since the pandemic year of 2020, according to Nikkei, citing the “Labor Migration in Asia”
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor Sri Lanka’s legal and regulatory framework currently faces significant challenges in managing the emergency evacuation of its citizens, particularly migrant workers, in times of crisis. The country’s
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It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s United States, some of the conventional wisdom around age and
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U.S. hiring projections for this year’s college graduating class were below last year’s, with finance, insurance and real estate organizations planning a 14.5 percent decrease in hiring, a sharp U-turn from its
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Each year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism. As states
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