Full Coverage: Labour

30.04.2007 The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the tripartite UN agency which brings together governments, employers and workers of its member states in common action to promote decent work throughout the world.

30.04.2007 At closer inspection, the legal protection of rights of workers in Croatia seems greatly satisfactory, even in comparison to European Union standards. Law on Labour prohibits all forms of discrimination of those working or seeking employment – from discrimination based on race and colour of skin, obligations in the family, age, sexual or even sexual orientation-based discrimination.

30.04.2007 As we write this, a group of citizens that have completed over 25 years of work and were left without any income whatsoever after their companies went bankrupt are striking in horrible conditions. These “bankruptcy” workers can’t meet the requirements to retire or receive social allowance from the Employment Bureau, demand from the Government to solve their problem by either finding them jobs, or by securing them a monthly allowance of, hopefully, 100 Euro until they meet the retirement criteria.

30.04.2007 Despite difficult postwar conditions and abnormal circumstances during most of the 1990s, KosovoÂ’s labor market is on its way to functioning normally. Stimulated by institutional flexibility and liberal wage determination framework, employment has rebounded to pre-war levels, but unemployment rate is still large.

30.04.2007 One of the biggest problems in the area of human rights ni Bosnia and Herzegovina is the non-observance of rights of workers, amply demonstrated by the statistical data collected by the associations for free legal assistance, which are used largely by those who fail to realize their labour and employment related rights.

30.04.2007 In Albania during Â’90 years after the collapse of centralized socialist economy brought about the closing of thousands of jobs so the country was deeply immersed in labor-market crises as the main indicator of its period of transition.

30.04.2007 A report by ActionAid reveals that the business practices of UK supermarkets are forcing women workers in the cashew industry in India to live in acute poverty and work in unhealthy conditions.

25.04.2007 Faced with unemployment in their failing tea estates, about two years ago, tea pluckers in the rolling highlands of this southern state responded by forming cooperatives to buy out their former employers Tata Tea and turn the gardens into profitable enterprises.

23.04.2007 The MULTIMEDIA Centre of Performing Arts, under the auspices of its From Female Point of View project, organizes the first national debate on the topic “Development, Labour and Gender”. The debate will take place in the Municipal Council Hall in Stip, on April 24, 2007, starting at 12:00 hours.

09.04.2007 A new form of bondage has been found in the south Indian state Tamil Nadu where textile units under the Sumangali Scheme or the Marriage Assistance Scheme are hiring adolescent girls and forcing them in bonded labour.

03.04.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 2 (OneWorld) - Trade unionists on both sides of the Pacific expressed disappointment Monday after the United States and South Korea agreed the biggest U.S. trade pact in 15 years with only minutes to go before a deadline.