Saudi Arabia this month confirmed it had abolished the controversial 50-year-old kafala labour sponsorship system reviled as 'modern-day slavery', allowing employers - called kafeel - inhuman levels ...

More than half of the councils that house asylum seekers in hotels are fully or partly controlled by Labour, according to BBC analysis of figures released by the government. On Tuesday, ...

Lebanon’s restrictive and exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system traps tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers in highly abusive conditions amounting, at worst, to modern slavery. The law ...

The gig economy is often celebrated as a defining innovation of contemporary capitalism. Platform labour is thus portrayed as a decisive break from industrial society: decentralised networks replacing ...