Full Coverage: Labour

24.11.2006 While the number of young unemployed increased from 74 million to 85 million, or by 14.8 per cent between 1995 and 2005, more than 300 million youth, or approximately 25 per cent of the youth population, were living below the US $2 per day poverty line, says a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO)

21.11.2006 SAK regards the context of the service directive, approved by the European Parliament, as something good. SAK's chief legal counsel Jorma Rusanen says. "The new directive will facilitate the free movement of services which can be useful also for Finnish service sector companies and employees."

21.11.2006 Being a mother of young children lowers her wage or salary. Barely anybody would disagree with this claim. But how large is the impact of motherhood on women's wages and salaries? Now a new study by the Finnish researcher Jenni Kellokumpu brings a new clarity to the issue. Motherhood's negative impact on the wages and salaries of mothers of young children is significant.

20.11.2006 In their campaign against child labour, UNICEF has pasted posters bearing Chunchun's photograph all over Bihar. But Chunchun is still working as a child labour in a roadside dhaba in Patna (India)

20.11.2006 Union Minister of State for Women & Child Development Renuka Chowdhury wants the ban on child labour eased to allow them to pick up traditional crafts and skills such as carpet-weaving within the family structure. She even says international laws banning purchase of the products of child labour are insensitive to regional issues and that India has signed on to them without thinking through the issues properly.

16.11.2006 President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam exhorted the construction industry to take up a societal mission to provide dwelling units costing not more than Rs. 1 lakh for the needy in urban and rural areas and wanted the Government to step in by arranging subsidies and hassle-free bank loans for them.

15.11.2006 DUSHANBE, Nov 15 (IPS) - Women have played important roles in rebuilding Tajikistan after the country's civil war of the 1990s. But women in this central Asian country still have many obstacles to overcome to reach equality with men, according to some local activists and international observers.

09.11.2006 The Labour Education and Development Society (LEDS) is organizing a seminar titled "Kaam - Dhaam aur Pahchan - Rajasthan ke Banjare aur anya adrishya mazdoor" - on November 11 from 2 to 4 pm at S/6.

09.11.2006 The Government proposes to expand the National Child Labour Projects (NCLP) to all districts in the country during the 11th Plan.Announcing this at a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to his Ministry on Wednesday, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Oscar Fernandes said the NCLPs were in operation in 250 districts in child labour endemic States.

02.11.2006 “Horizon” humanitarian organization from Kriva Palanka demanded from the Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to invest greater effort to solve the problems of Macedonian citizens living and working in Italy and emphasized the need to sign Agreement on Seasonal Workers with Italy.