Understanding the Hiring Issues of the Craft Workers in the UAE’s Construction Labor Market: Project Managers Perspective

The construction industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is faced with negative project performance, including low productivity, higher costs, delays in project completion, and defects during construction. One of the main reasons for these issues is the engagement of unskilled craft workers. Despite these labor issues, demand for construction projects in the UAE has been explosively increasing, in part due to Dubai winning the hosting of Expo 2020, which has given rise to an unprecedented demand for skilled construction craft workers. This study aimed to investigate the views and experiences of construction project managers regarding the reasons and challenges associated with the hiring of skilled craft workers in the construction labor market of the UAE. To fulfill the study purpose, the authors conducted structured open-ended interviews with UAE construction project managers. The results revealed several reasons for hiring craft workers despite a clear lack of qualifications and suggest some potential solutions.

Analisis Kebijakan Ekonomi dan Kesejahteraan Sosial Perspektif Maqāṣid Asy-Syarīʻah (Studi Pasal 88 UU Nomor 11 Tahun 2020)

The coverage of the draft Law on Job Creation has drawn polemics from a number of parties, one of which is from workers who have taken action against regulations related to labor clusters which have changed many articles in Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower. This paper examines the implications of the Work Creation Omnibus Law Bill from the perspective of maqasid sharia which focuses on labor issues. This type of research is included in qualitative research in the form of descriptive, which explains some of the articles of the Omnibus law Cipta Kerja. The method used to obtain data is a normative juridical approach in the form of primary legal material, namely Law no. 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation. Then for the collection and data analysis methods using descriptive analytical. The results of the study show that the concept of welfare in the omnibus law refers to the labor law where every worker has the right to earn income that meets a decent living, this is self-intersest and material oriented, while in the concept of Maqāṣid asy-syarīʻah is an orientation to maslahah which covers all aspects. human life which includes protection of religion, soul, descent, wealth, reason.

COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems Of Ensuring Gender Equality

This article analyzes the issues of ensuring gender equality during the Covid19 pandemic in Uzbekistan and foreign countries. The author examines the reasons for the increasing digital gender inequality, the problem of women's access to work, women's domestic labor issues, and the global increase in domestic violence during the quarantine period. The author developed proposals for solving the above problems in order to solve the problem of increasing gender inequality during the period of a pandemic in the world and in Uzbekistan.

U.S.-UK FTA Negotiations: A Primer on Labor Agenda

With Brexit completed and the UK's conditions of separation from the EU pending, there is some anticipation for a U.S.-UK FTA. But then there is the Pandemic and the unpredictable variables of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, and the influence of the residual binding obligations of the UK-EU separation agreement and possible UK-EU FTA, which may cause some pause. Identifying the negotiating agenda of the labor issues may flow easily from each country's recent FTAs – USMCA and UK's obligations under CETA. With that likely agenda, a comparison can be made between each country's current labor laws on these issues to identify possible emerging areas needing further attention. Lingering in the background is the potential U.S.-EU FTA (TTIP) which will set standards and obligations for the UK which can be relevant to the UK FTAs with the U.S. and the EU. This is followed with analysis as to likely outcomes on these labor issues and the U.S.-UK FTA. Although the future cannot be predicted, it can be prepared for.

SOCIAL PROTECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

In today's world of development, there are significant changes in both management and society, due to the spread of information technology. The transition to a digital economy not only addresses economic issues, but will also become the basis for regulating social and labor issues, including social protection. The aim of the article is to provide social protection in the context of the digital economy. The article identifies the main approaches to the formation of the digital economy, describes the conceptual approaches to improving social protection in the context of the digital economy. Certain approaches to the digital and social transformation of society will contribute to the competitiveness of staff in terms of digitalization, development of the national economy of Ukraine.

Sentimental Solidarities

Film Quarterly columnist Rebecca Wanzo surveys the history of fictional treatments of labor in US television and film and examines the frequently overlooked role played by sentimentality in media representations of labor and union organizing. Noting that sentimentality has been criticized for its deployment of suffering bodies as “other” objects for voyeuristic tears as well as for sometimes collapsing difference in an effort to construct empathy, Wanzo observes that documentary has often been a more welcoming space for the telling of sympathetic narratives about unions than Hollywood fiction films and television. This makes the depiction of labor and union organizing in Wanzo’s two case studies—the sitcom Superstore (NBC, 2015–21) and the primetime soap Homefront (ABC, 1991–93)—all the more exceptional. At a moment when labor issues are more relevant than ever, Superstore shows people why labor loses, but Homefront reminds people why labor won.