Why are workers striking and protesting across France? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/18/explainer-why-are-workers-striking-and-protesting-across-france -Transportation workers, and some high school teachers and public hospital employees, are demanding pay rises that keep up with the soaring cost of living as France experiences inflation of 6.2 percent — its highest rate in decades. Inflation has risen around the world as economies rebounded from the COVID pandemic and then worsened as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent food and fuel prices soaring. https://youtu.be/sMAdD4coNSo
Striking workers are demanding higher wages from the windfall profits of energy companies amid high oil and gas prices as Russia’s war in Ukraine aggravates an energy crisis. “Huge profits are being claimed off the back of our work, and we are just claiming our fair share of the wealth,” Axel Persson, CGT rail union spokesperson, told Al Jazeera.
Job insecurity will increase if Indian firms don’t tackle rising employee dissatisfaction https://theprint.in/opinion/job-insecurity-will-increase-if-indian-firms-dont-tackle-rising-employee-dissatisfaction/956984/
Increasing flexibility at work should not come at the cost of an employee’s job security. After all, security is tied to job satisfaction, more so for women. PRACHI AGARWAL TANMAY DEVI and RUPA KORDE 16 May, 2022...increase in precarity of work as these contracts do not factor in healthcare, insurance, housing allowances and other forms of social security measures. This problem has grown with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, as repeated lockdowns have led to a marked increase in flexible remote work models. But, this begs the question — how does an increase in work flexibility affect employees’ job satisfaction levels, and in turn create situations for precarity of work?
81% Indians insecure about jobs, stability in future: Survey Globally, about 56% people feel that few people will have stable, long-term employment in the future https://www.hrkatha.com/research/81-indians-insecure-about-jobs-stability-in-future-survey/ March 19, 2021 About 60 per cent people fear that automation will take away their jobs. About 48 per cent feel that traditional jobs will no longer be available in the future; While globally, a significant 56 per cent feel that few people will have stable, long-term employment in the future, in India, this figure is an alarming 81 per cent.