In Defence of Labour Market Institutions: Cultivating Justice in the Developing World (International Labour Organization)
indojob (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION The specialized agency of the United Nations to promote opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive employment in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. The ILO Jakarta Office is looking for the following positions to be stationed in Ambon, Maluku: Local Project Coordinator (Code: 2009-41) Local Programme Officer (Code: 2009-42)...
Your Pharmacist May Hate You (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In the land of the free and the home of the brave my friends, you can be forced to sell your property to the government at any time. You may be surprised to hear this, but it's right in the constitution to which every elected official and member of the armed services of this country swears allegiance. Don't worry though, the Bill of Rights protects you by limiting this power to the confiscation of...
trucks world news (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
London,UK - Road Freight News (Australia) -12 November 2009: -- Employees of multinational giant DHL will be challenging the company to honour its promises of fair treatment for all workers as part of a worldwide week of action from November 9 to 13... According to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) , the event is part of an ongoing joint campaign with UNI Global Union for...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
With UK unemployment rapidly increasing, these figures show benefit claimants in each UK parliamentary constituency Interactive graphic from Timetric showing total unemployment . Roll over the line to get the figure for each date. Unemployment is still going up, but is the rise slowing ? And what's the position where you live? The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported this morning that the...
BizKnowledge Watch (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has just published an update of the Global Wages Report 2008/09, which was originally released in November 2008. The present update provides some indicators of wage trends up to the second quarter of 2009 in a number of countries around the world. The study reports that the picture on wages [...]
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Date: 05 Nov 2009 Source: International Labour Organization
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
() -- The International Labour Organization (ILO) warned Tuesday that global growth in workers’ real wages, which fell sharply in 2008, will decline even more in 2009, despite what is being touted by governments around the world as an economic recovery.
Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Andre Damon 31 Oct 2009 Employment costs in the US rose at the lowest annual amount in at least 27 years, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Stagnant wages and salaries are the outcome of government policies designed to lower the living standards of workers. Over the past 12 months, the Labor Department’s Employment Cost Index rose by 1.5 percent, marking the lowest...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Media reports on the economic meltdown have mainly concentrated on the impact of the crisis on the rich nations, with little concern for the mass of the population living in what used to be called the Third World. The current view seems to be that the setbacks in these "emerging economies" may be less severe than expected. China's and India's high growth rates have slackened, but the predicted...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Global wages fell in the United States and some other wealthy nations in the second quarter of the year, raising questions about whether workers are sharing in any economic recovery, the U.N. labor agency said Tuesday. The International Labor Organization... United States - Labour economics - International Labour Organization - Work - United Nations
beSpacific (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Strategy for gender mainstreaming in the Employment Sector for the implementation of the ILO Action Plan for Gender Equality 2008-09...
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
By Ofentse Mokae 27 October 2009 The Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and its Leadership met with the Minister of National Planning, Minister Trevor Manuel yesterday, to discuss the Green Paper on National Planning. The Green Paper that was first introduced in September this year is an important tool by which Government aims to extensively consults with Organised Labour and Business to...
BizKnowledge Watch (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has just published the report, “Private employment agencies, temporary agency workers and their contribution to the labour market.” The study concludes that workers employed by temporary employment agencies have been among the first to lose their jobs as a result of the financial and economic crisis. The biggest temporary job [...]
Green Options (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The 2009 Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Conference begins today and runs through Friday in San Francisco. The theme this year is Reset Economy, Reset World and focuses on a “trio of global crises - the worldwide recession, accelerating climate change, and a collapse of trust in business.” Nearly 500 businesses, non-profits, universities and other organizations are expected to...
BizKnowledge Watch (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The International Labour Organization and the WTO have just published a joint study titled “Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries.” The report has found that the high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries’ ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in job transition. This study [...]
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