wages, working conditions, labour law, gig economy regulation, and union rights
A proposal to make governments report job creation honestly: short-term jobs, long-term jobs, and long-term jobs that actually pay enough to live on. Governments love job numbers. A project is announced, a subsidy is justified, a ribbon is cut, and the public is told that hundreds or thousands of jobs will be created. But too…
Every job posting asks something of the applicant. It asks for time, attention, employment history, education history, references, contact information, salary expectations, and often enough personal detail to build a profile of a person’s working life. That exchange should come with obligations. If a job is not real, not active, already filled, only posted to…