The new law passed last month offers protection and rights to those in the gig economy, as well as a tribunal to settle disputes.

Malaysia has passed the Gig Workers Bill 2025, giving legal recognition and protection to freelancers and platform-based ...

Introduction The gig economy is a promising arena to reduce unemployment and provide other benefits such as the opportunity to earn supplemental income. Like all other forms of work, the gig space ...

Without statutory obligations and penalties, platforms have little incentive to reform, which makes legal obligations crucial ...

I foresee the gig economy maturing into something more complex: a networked labor economy where collaboration becomes the ...

In March 2025, the Urban Company — an app service based in India — published the following advertisement: Your maid left you hanging? We leave your home spotless! InstaMaids at your service in 15 ...

Malaysia has become one of the first countries in the world to have special legislation for the gig economy sector after the Gig Workers Bill 2025 was passed by the Dewan Rakyat today, said Human ...

Trade policy uncertainty, especially tariffs, has stalled job growth in key sectors like manufacturing, but a stable policy could revive hiring. Read what investors need to know.

In 2019, Werner Herzog — of the ““I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder” Herzogs — made a scripted movie about the proliferation of rental ...

Bastien Bouillon is wonderful as a shambling, self-unmade hero in this French drama, a quiet gem in this year's Venice competition. Who we write for, and why, is one of many untidily answered ...

The latest from writer-director Valérie Donzelli ('Declaration of War') stars Bastien Bouillon ('The Night of the 12th') as a novelist eking out a living as a freelance handyman in Paris. By Jordan ...