The Swiss canton of Geneva said Friday it had classified ride-hailing giant Uber as an employer, ordering a halt to its activities unless it pays the social charges for its drivers.
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Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Big pharma lobby’s self-serving claims block global access to vaccines
The self-serving arguments used by big pharma lobbyists at meetings with the European Commission to defend monopoly intellectual property rights on vaccines are demonstrably false. Corporate Europe Observatory has uncovered new documents from December 2020 […]
Economics
Aditya Chakrabortty: The rules on outsourced working are rigged. But today there’s a fightback
One of the biggest problems in Britain is corporations and managers that don’t pay their way. They rely on the state for protection yet siphon off their profits to tax havens. Their workers are monitored […]
Geopolitics
Tithi Bhattacharya – Palestine: My Letter to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Refusing the Prize for My Book
As a historian of British imperialism, I cannot close my eyes to the colonial legacies, similarities and solidarities between the Palestinians and my people. Moreover, as an educator of the next generation I find that […]
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