Full Coverage: Labour

29.01.2007 In September 2006, the forest industry giant UPM, based in Finland, announced its plan to get rid of its remaining 300 forestry workers. They and their union, the Wood and Allied Workers' Union, rejected the plan arguing that it is bad for both the company and its forests, let alone the workers themselves.

29.01.2007 Eighty-four call centres across the country are answering farmersÂ’ queries related to everything from fungus on brinjals to kisan credit cards and prices of insecticides.

18.01.2007 For incense sticks (agarbattis) sold at Rs.100 in market, a homebased worker rolling them receives a meager Rs.2.30 only!

16.01.2007 In 2003 Finnish police registered 910 work place accidents. But this figure is only a fraction of the number of work place accidents registered by Statistics Finland, which recorded up to over 100,000 work place accidents. A sixth of the 910 cases registered by police ended up at the discretion of prosecutors.

08.01.2007 Much hyped in 2005 and launched in 2006, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the countryÂ’s most ambitious social welfare programme, must gain momentum in the new year, writes Pamela Philipose

05.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 5 (OneWorld) - A coalition of more than 60 labor, social justice, and immigrants rights organizations issued a statement Thursday calling for an immediate halt to community and workplace raids aimed at detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants.

04.01.2007 Indian immigrants are a significant driving force behind the creation of new engineering and technology companies in the United States in the past decade than their counterparts from the UK, China, Taiwan and Japan put together. Of an estimated 73-hundred US tech startups founded by immigrants, 26 per cent have Indian founders, CEOs, presidents or head researchers, a new study says.

03.01.2007 Finnish legislation does not offer much protection to agency hired labour. Moreover, the handful of agreements with regard to agency hired labour, which have been hammered out by labour market parties, often leave agency hired labour bereft of the benefits which are usually enjoyed by employees with regular jobs.