Full Coverage: Labour

27.01.2006 The country's shift to a market economy has been met by widespread protests over high inflation, rising living costs and now the government's decision to delay a 40% increase in basic wages, which it turns out only applies to employees of foreign firms.

25.01.2006 Worldwide unemployment - especially among the vast and growing legion of jobless youth - reached new heights last year, despite robust economic growth, the International Labour Office said.

18.01.2006 The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H published its 2005 annual report which presents, among other, disturbing findings on prevalent ethnic discrimination in the country, especially in the field of labour legislation.

18.01.2006 Four thousand bus-drivers started a national transportation strike on January 16, together with about six thousands bus conductors and service and maintenance workers.

18.01.2006 While Vietnam has some of the strongest labor laws on paper, the recent influx of private companies has seen policy enforcement slide. But 40,000 striking workers can remind the government really quickly whom it's beholden to.

17.01.2006 Maharashtra’s 28-year-old Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) which became model for the National Rural Employment gaurantee Scheme. EGS is also emblematic of the corruption in the EGS — fake muster rolls including payments to the dead, which the state government

16.01.2006 Only six per cent of the total number of employees working in medium and large scale industries constitute women, with 18 percent in medium and 4 percent in large companies, according to a study released by the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi on the 14th of December 2005. WebIndia123.com reports.

16.01.2006 Malaysia is accused of serious shortcomings in the application and enforcement of trade union rights and in migrant workers' conditions in a new report by an international confederation of unions.

16.01.2006 Egypt on Sunday approved the transit through the Suez Canal of a decommissioned French aircraft carrier with 45 tonnes of asbestos that is en route to India to be dismantled, official news agency MENA reported.

16.01.2006 The bill drafting committee under the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers has finally approved the second amendment ordinance of the Labour Act 2048 BS with major changes in the Act. A meeting of the Committee, headed by Law Minister Niranjan Thapa, on Friday finalised the Labour Act second amendment ordinance 2062 BS, according to sources at the PMO.

09.01.2006 India will finally launch the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on February 2. The Rural Development Ministry announced that the initial financial hurdles in the ambitious social undertaking, which guarantees 100 days of employment to every rural Indian household, have also been overcome.

03.01.2006 Environmental organization Greenpeace has heightened its protests against the French government for itÂ’s decision to send decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau to India for ship-breaking by converging at the French embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday morning. Rahul Kumar reports about the Greenpeace demonstration.

02.01.2006 A blog on the WTO is highlighting the plight of weavers and artisans in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and how the import of textiles will harm artisans in the country.