Moroccan firm to reinstate 540 dismissed workers
July 4, 2017Over 500 workers in the Moroccan city of Agadir have been on strike since March 2015 at DOHA, part of the wealthy...
Samsung chief gets 5-year prison term for corruption
Aug 25, 2017
A South Korean court has found Lee Jae-yong, the de facto chief of the sprawling Samsung business empire, guilty of bribery and...
Turkish glass workers fight strike ban
Almost 6,000 workers, members of the Kristal-İş glass union, are not leaving the factories of multinational glass manufacturer Şişecam at the end of their shifts in their quest to...
ILO: Global unemployment expected to rise by 3.4 million in 2017
Economic growth continues to disappoint and deficit in decent work remain widespread
The global unemployment rate is expected to rise modestly from 5.7 to 5.8...
Labour Unions demand tier two payments
Twelve public sector labour unions have threatened to embark on strike if the government failed to pay their tier two pension contributions.
They have given...
NTC workers suspend protest
Workers of New Times Corporation (NTC) have suspended their industrial protest which began on Monday.
This follows an agreement reached by the workers to allow...
Venezuela hikes its minimum wage again — to just over $6
Venezuelans earning the minimum wage got another pay raise Thursday. But in reality, they're making far less than they were a year ago.
President Nicolas...
More women business leaders but still room for progress at the top
Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, where only 4.2 per cent of CEOs are female, have still made substantial progress in taking business...
Trump Reaches Out to Labor Unions
President Donald J. Trump met on January 23 with several union leaders and employees in the construction and sheet metal industries, according to Politico. Unions...
Teaching unions push for pay rise
Teaching unions have jointly submitted a claim for a 5% cost-of-living pay rise this year, the BBC has learnt.
The Northern Ireland Teachers Council (NITC),...
