Full Coverage: Labour

30.11.2005 Following the government's decision to open up Malaysia as one of the labor destinations for female Nepali workers, a group of forty women left for the country, seeking employment there. A Kantipur Online report....

29.11.2005 The recently published research report ‘The price of childhood’ shows that multinationals outsourcing cotton seed production to Indian farmers pay far too little to enable them to hire adults.

25.11.2005 Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, president and executive director of the Visayan Forum Foundation, has been awarded this year's Anti-Slavery Award for her work on child domestic labour in The Philippines.

24.11.2005 The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Macedonian Office promoted the “Employment: Comparative Overview of Length of Employment and Labour Disputes” publication yesterday at the NGO InfoCentre.

24.11.2005 Around 800 delegates from over 55 countries will discuss gender and health related issues at the fourth international congress on women that gets underway here from Nov 27.

22.11.2005 In a major crackdown on employment of child labour, a joint team of the State Labour Department, the Delhi police and the non-governmental organisation, Pratham, rescued close to 500 children from illegal zari units in northeast Delhi.

21.11.2005 The biggest ever operation undertaken to rescue children working under inhuman condition in zari units, a joint team of the State Labour Department, Delhi police and a non-government organisation Pratham plan to mount raids at over 100 such factories in the Capital on Today, 21 November 2005.

21.11.2005 A case study on working conditions in the factories of the Nokia Mobile Phones and its suppliers concludes that Nokia and its suppliers and subcontractors do not fully comply with either Nokia's Code of Conduct or Chinese legislation, neither ILO conventions. The position of contract labour is especially weak.

18.11.2005 A law guaranteeing construction workers on federal contracts the prevailing wage of the area in which they are working was suspended for post-Katrina reconstruction projects. The law was recently reinstated after citizens from all over the U.S. sent messages urging Congress to overturn the suspension.

18.11.2005 NEW YORK, Nov 17 (OneWorld) - Despite considerable opposition from lawmakers, including some within his Republican party, President George W. Bush seems determined to push ahead with plans to introduce further cuts in taxes for the rich, continuing to assert that it would create more jobs for the poor.

18.11.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (OneWorld) - Some 400 non-governmental groups are rallying this week to oppose practices by the world's most profitable corporation, Wal-Mart, which may be feeling the effects of a mounting opposition.

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An impressive figure of 4,360 child labourers entered school in the academic year 2005-2006. This feat was achieved under the banner of School Chalo Abhiyan (school enrollment campaign) during July-September 2005 by Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) (Save our Childhood Campaign).

17.11.2005 The Centre for Peace Studies will send a questionnaire to 150 Croatian employers, to inquire about their views and approaches to minority and “vulnerable” groups in their respective employment policies.

16.11.2005 The biggest challenge for the local institutions in Kosovo remains unemployment. More than 315,000 persons are registered as unemployed, which amounts to 40% of the KosovoÂ’s population, reported Kosova Television KTV. More than 46% of them are women, and the number of the registered women has increased for 7,4% during the last 12 months.

16.11.2005 Over 90 activists, academics, members of government and community women from India and Nepal, SriLanka, India, Nigeria, Krgystan, and Uganda assembled at UNDP hall, New Delhi, on November 13th and 14th for an International Consultation on WomenÂ’s Land and Resource Rights. Community womenÂ’s experiences were supplemented with legal and conceptual information from people who have worked on the issue at the policy and law reform level.

10.11.2005 Some of the nearly 200 trade unionists arrested in Zimbabwe for protesting against poverty may have been tortured and denied access to medication, says an international labour grouping.

07.11.2005 Immigration and employment law and policy is failing to ‘manage’ migration and to protect migrant workers’ rights, says the Institute of Employment Rights report.

02.11.2005 In a major initiative to meet the skilled job market requirements, the Union government is working on a plan to upgrade 500 out of the 1,896 government-run ITIs, through public-private participation (PPP).

01.11.2005 The Centre for Interethnic Tolerance and Refugees (CITR) joined the “HALLO STOP” campaign last year, together with several other NGOs. The campaign was started in reaction to the increased phone-bills in Macedonia, and has focused on the social aspects of Macedonian Telecommunications Company operations.