Full Coverage: Labour

29.03.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 29 (OneWorld) - Immigrant rights activists in Colorado have launched a week-long economic boycott, saying they want to show how big an impact immigrants have on the economy.

22.03.2007 Imagine running your computer on a solar energy backup for five hours a day! It's possible, says an expert who sees India as a promising destination for alternative sources of power.Terence "Terry" J Hart, vice chairman and technical director of IT Power India Pvt Ltd, sees states like Karnataka and West Bengal ahead in the use of alternative energy.

21.03.2007 Remittances – money sent home by immigrant workers abroad – are hugely beneficial to many countries across the world.India is the world’s top receiver of remittances. Flows into the country have grown dramatically in recent years, touching US$ 17.4 billion in 2003, up from some US$2 billion a year in the late 1980s.

21.03.2007 India has been remarkably successful in boosting economic growth: its economy has grown at about 6 percent per annum since the 1990s, with growth accelerating to 9 percent over the past two years. Absolute poverty has been cut in half, and the country seems set to achieve middle income status soon.

20.03.2007 Nandigram in West Bengal has emerged as the lightning rod for criticism of the governmentÂ’s economic policies. While previous clashes here over the proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have killed at least seven people including a policeman, the events of March 14 put a halt to the West Bengal governmentÂ’s industrialisation bid and has forced a re-think at the national level.

17.03.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 17 (OneWorld) - Politicians in Washington are debating the issue of immigration this week. Many Democrats want to create a guest worker program through which undocumented immigrants would be able to earn legalization over time. Conservative Republicans have their own ideas--from stepping up deportations, to building a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, to punishing employers who hire undocumented workers.

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14.03.2007 A ban by the Sri Lankan government on young mothers taking up jobs as housemaids in foreign countries, to minimise social disruption at home, has whipped up a storm of protests with rights groups slamming the move as hasty and poorly planned.

13.03.2007 Last week, the Mjaft! Foundation (the philanthropic branch of Mjaft! Movement) presented the opening of its ambitious "Une Punoj" ("I Work”) project. This initiative will, through an innovative website, create a virtual space where employers and jobseekers can interact in order to jointly improve the unemployment situation in Albania. The site will list all the available labour market opportunities.

12.03.2007 On the occasion of March 8, the International Women’s Day, the Croatian Women Network, in cooperation witht he Women Section of the Association of Independent Trade Unions of Croatia and the Women Committee of the Croatian Independent Trade Unions, organized a protest march, starting at former factory “Nada Dimic” and ending the walk at “Kamenita vrata” (Stone Portal), as a warning to deteriorating position of women in the labour market.

06.03.2007 NAIROBI, Mar 5 (IPS) - With AIDS cutting a swathe through Africa's workforce, there is an urgent need for employers to set up policies that support HIV-positive staff -- and ensure they are not victims of stigma. But it's a need that often goes unaddressed.

06.03.2007 The Republic of Croatia and EU signed yesterday, March 5, 2007, the Joint Inclusion Memorandum (JIM). The JIM defines the strengths and weaknesses of social policies designed to fight poverty, as well as challenges and priorities of future social policies.

05.03.2007 The generation of productive and remunerative employment is probably the central process in equitable growth. This is of course a concern that is as old as the study of economic growth itself, and effectively underlies all the debates about the possibilities of ''trickle-down'' of growth.