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Nigeria's women's football team fresh from an impressive run to the last 16 of the World Cup are demanding with the support of FIFPRO their national federation "honour their commitments" and pay them outstanding bonuses and…

Now, some may accuse me of being soft and that back in our day we had to deal with worse, and it didn’t harm us, blah-blah-blah. I think we can all admit that “back in our day” has proven – through many different movements of injustice –…

Non-departmental funding body UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) must pay HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) £36m in back-dated tax after a review of its IR35 compliance procedures uncovered historic errors in how it classified the…

Twitter’s ex-CEO Parag Agrawal and two other former executives are suing the Elon Musk-owned social media platform for failing to cover more than $1mn in personal legal expenses, including those related to an investigation by the US…

Is trouble brewing at Utopia?Today (March 30), MBW broke the news that the company had sold music publishing platform Sentric to Believe – just one year after Sentric was itself acquired by Utopia.The sale of Sentric marks the second time…

Australia’s gendered economic storyThe impact of lockdowns did not end with lockdowns themselves. Recruiters have reported a change in priorities among Australian women who have returned to work. Instead of picking up where they left off,…

Chinese migrant workers demanding overdue wages from their employers are facing a crackdown by local governments over alleged “malicious” labour activism.More than a dozen cities across China have in recent weeks threatened to punish…

The Crown Estate, which manages a portfolio of land and property belonging to the British monarchy, is suing Twitter for unpaid rent.…

BMG Rights Management is being sued by the heirs of The Gap Band members Robert and Ronnie Wilson over alleged unpaid royalties for their credits on Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ 2014 hit Uptown Funk.The Gap Band members, three brothers —…

Triller, the US-based challenger to TikTok, has responded to Sony Music Entertainment, four months after the major sued the company for allegedly failing to pay “millions of dollars” in contractual licensing fees.In its response to SME’s…