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Employment

News, comment and features on employment in the developing world, including unemployment, youth unemployment, labour conditions, domestic workers and migrant workers

April 2026

  • A young woman with tattoos stands on a beach wearing winter clothing.

    Against the tide
    Crack and crime to confident and qualified: is the future about to change for Rhyl’s youth?

    The Welsh seaside resort has already seen a fall in offending and drug use, now a £20m investment and a fresh approach to building job skills is bringing new opportunities for under-25s
  • Men stand around a wooden box raised on a metal table.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    One ship, three deaths: the shocking truth behind working conditions on a Chinese fishing vessel

    Damning testimony from the crew of one longline tuna-fishing boat has lifted the lid on the treatment of workers in the fleets supplying fish to the UK and EU
  • An aerial view of a road in a city

    Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis

    The Nigerian megacity’s dynamic growth is outstripping its rental supply, and wages are not keeping up with rising costs

March 2026

  • A person lifts their top to display a large scar running across their stomach.

    ‘The whole country is doing it’: how illegal kidney traders target Pakistan’s desperate brick kiln workers

    Enslaved by debt, victims often feel compelled to sell an organ to repay loans – but can find themselves even worse off after the procedure
  • Omega Douglas

    double quotation markWho decides what’s news these days? For all the diversity talk, it certainly isn’t Black journalists

    Omega Douglas
    As a new report reveals career ‘apartheid’ in newsrooms, I and many others wonder if the fine promises will ever bring genuine change, says writer and academic Omega Douglas

    • The Guardian picture essay
      Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish

    • New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’

    • ‘Apartheid newsroom’: minority ethnic journalists still locked out of top jobs, report finds

January 2026

  • A group of mainly female construction workers pose for the camera in hard hats on a building site

    Opinion
    double quotation markThis is Africa’s most consequential decade: nothing will ever be the same again

    Monica Geingos
  • A man sits at a table in a room with mostly empty shelves

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘History will tell’: as US pressure grows, Cuba edges closer to collapse amid mass exodus

December 2025

  • A montage of photos of an African man talking into a mic at an art gallery; a handbag studded with crystals; veiled Somali women and a man at a camp; a veiled Somali woman speaking to a camera; an Indian man looking off-camera

    ‘Even in the most unlikely places there is beauty’: stories of hope from newsrooms around the world

  • a sign reads 'now hiring apply today'

    US lost 105,000 jobs in October and added 64,000 in November, according to delayed data

November 2025

  • A young man in goalkeeping kit

    ‘They killed my only son’: the young west African footballers scammed by fake agents

  • A guanaco, which resembles a llama, stands on grassland with a large body of water and mountains in the background

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Will it change the weather? Will wildlife cope?’: Europe rushes to build energy megaprojects in Chile

October 2025

  • Two young African men and a young African woman look at the camera with tentative smiles

    Africa's children
    Africa’s children: 20 years on, what happened to the millennium babies?

  • A man stands on top of a large pile of clothing outside. Another man appears to be on a small ladder reaching part way up the pile.

    Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick

September 2025

  • A group of men wearing high-vis vests lower a solar panel into place.

    ‘Unpaid wages, searing heat, long hours’: why workers are quitting the world’s largest renewable energy park

    A vast migrant labour force is helping India meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, drawn by promises of good wages and perks. But many say they are forced to ‘escape’ without pay
  • A man leans on a fence in what appears to be a park with a lake

    ‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds

    A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture
  • Piles of salt in an empty expanse of salt flats

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘The Dubai of South America’: how the promise of riches from lithium mining turned to dust in Bolivia

    Politicians have long promised the critical metal will rescue the economy but Indigenous locals say the push to exploit vast reserves threatens the ecosystem and their livelihoods

August 2025

  • people hold signs that read 'Starbucks workers united on ULP strike' and 'no contract no coffee'

    CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms, study shows

    At 100 firms in S&P 500 with lowest median pay, executives’ comp increased by average of nearly 35% over five years
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