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Thousands of Just Eat couriers launch legal action to improve workers’ rights

More than 7,000 join employment tribunal that will include claims for minimum wage and holiday pay

More than 7,000 Just Eat couriers are taking legal action against the food delivery company in an attempt to gain better employment rights including the minimum wage and holiday pay.

The employment tribunal, which begins on Tuesday and is set to run until 2 June, will determine if the couriers are classed as workers, a status that comes with improved rights, or self-employed independent contractors.

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Iran executes three men in relation to January anti-regime protests

Hangings are latest in wave of near-daily killings as authorities seek to instil fear amid war with US and Israel

Iran has executed three men charged in connection with political protests this January, authorities have said, the latest in a wave of hangings against the backdrop of the war against the US and Israel.

Iranian authorities have carried out executions on a near-daily basis in recent weeks in what activists have denounced as a bid to instil fear in society at a time of international and domestic tension.

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‘Apartheid in the US’: Arizona’s secretary of state fights Trump’s plot to amass a ‘master list’ of voters

Database could be used to regulate opponents, from ‘shutting off bank accounts’ to healthcare, official warns

Donald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.

Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said.

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One in three HR leaders face opposition to inclusion schemes, study finds

Exclusive: Resistance to equity, diversion and inclusion drives affects hiring chances of people with convictions, says charity

More than a third of HR decision-makers in the UK said they have faced pushback against equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives over the past year, according to new research.

The new YouGov poll, carried out for the national employment charity Working Chance, surveyed 565 HR decision-makers and found that resistance towards EDI was on the rise.

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Dynamic pay on platforms such as Uber should be banned, says TUC

Exclusive: Union body finds workers describing themselves as ‘gambling’ because wages felt like the outcome of chance rather than work

The practice of using “dynamic pricing” to set pay on gig economy platforms including Uber should be banned because it leaves workers at the mercy of shadowy algorithms with no certainty over their earnings, trade union leaders have urged.

In a report exposing the human cost of the gig economy practice, the Trades Union Congress said pay was becoming decoupled from time, skill or effort. Instead, work had become a speculative practice with the rewards determined by an algorithmic process with little transparency.

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US Keeps Thailand on Watch List For Counterfeit Goods and Online Piracy Despite Enforcement Gains

Bangkok — Thailand will remain on the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) Watch List for intellectual property (IP) protection in 2026, according to the annual Special 301 Report released on May 1st (Thailand time). The decision comes even as U.S. officials acknowledged notable progress in Thailand’s enforcement efforts against piracy and counterfeiting. The report places […]

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Thai Authorities Raid Unlicensed Private School on Koh Phangan, Discover 89 Mostly Israeli Children and Illegal Foreign Workers

Surat Thani, Thailand Joint Thai security forces conducted a raid on an unlicensed private school operating as a childcare center on Koh Phangan, uncovering significant violations including far more children than permitted and numerous illegal foreign workers. On May 1st, 2026, officials from the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) Region 4, military units under the […]

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