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Thailand / From Cambodia to get minimum wage
Thailand’s Bt300 minimum wage has attracted Khmer workers to leave Cambodia to work here in Thailand, causing Cambodia itself to have a labour shortage and to try to recruit Thai workers. Currently Cambodia is amid the cassava harvest season but as many Cambodian workers are now employed in Thailand due to the incentive of a … Continue reading
Ireland / New scheme to put long-term unemployed to work planned
A NEW scheme to put long-term unemployed to work as council workers is being planned by the Government. Up to 3,000 people on the dole for more than two years will be put to work at street cleaning, cutting grass and carrying out road works. The Cabinet will hold a meeting today where a wide … Continue reading
Puerto Rico / A plan to create 50,000 jobs
Puerto Rico’s new governor strode onstage wielding a baseball bat on Wednesday as he unveiled a long-awaited plan to help create thousands of jobs on an island struggling to emerge from a financial crisis. Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed a new law called “Jobs Now” in front of hundreds of business owners and dozens of government … Continue reading
Canada / Only 2.9% of immigrants in 2008 had actually become citizens
Hundreds of thousands of people come to Canada as immigrants every year, but fewer are actually becoming citizens. Internal Citizenship and Immigration documents obtained through an access to information request show only 2.9% of immigrants who gained permanent residency in Canada in 2008 had actually become citizens by the time they were generally eligible to … Continue reading
UE / Proposals for companies to help those worse affected by redundancies into new jobs approved
European MPs have approved “daft” proposals for companies to help those worse affected by redundancies into new jobs, in a move that will intensify tension between the EU and Britain over unnecessary red tape. The European Parliament report, drawn up by Spanish socialist MEP Alejandro Cercas, calls for new rules requiring any single company with … Continue reading
Netherlands / New redundancy rules will hit older staff
Plans to reduce golden handshakes and make it easier for companies to sack staff will hit older workers particularly hard, according to the Dutch personnel officers’ organisation NVP. The organisation says it is raising the alarm because it wants to ensure a ‘reasonable’ approach to redundancy. ‘We work for employers but we also see the … Continue reading
Rwanda / Minimum Wage / Survey commissioned to set new rate
THE MINISTRY of Public Service and Labour in partnership with the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), is collecting data which will help the government determine the new minimum wage. Currently, the 1974 Labour Law is still in force. And this means the minimum wage is Rwf100 per day. With this, Trade Unions say that there … Continue reading
Irish public service / No more ‘jobs for life’ with compulsory redundancies
THE Government is planning to bring in compulsory redundancies in the public sector as part of the new Croke Park deal. Marking an end to the concept of a job for life in the public service, it will be the first time the threat of non-voluntary redundancy will be available. The compulsory redundancies will mainly … Continue reading
Austria / New No-Discrimination Laws On Leased employees
Austria’s hiring-out of labour laws have been amended (BGBl 98/2012). According to the directive, the implementation into national law should already have taken place by 5 December 2011. After a first failed attempt in February 2012 to implement the directive effective 1 July 2012, the implementation has now taken place belatedly, effective 1 January 2013. … Continue reading
US / Middle-Class Employment Problems: Central challenge of Obama’s second term
On election night in Chicago two months ago, President Barack Obama triumphantly pledged to fight for a middle class he’d appealed to relentlessly — and successfully — on the 2012 campaign trail. “I believe we can build on the progress we’ve made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security … Continue reading
EU: Tackling youth unemployment was a priority
A year ago, “The European Parliament underlined five priorities in the report on the contribution to the Annual Growth Survey 2012: 1. pursuing different growth-friendly fiscal consolidation 2. ensuring long-term financing of the real economy 3. promoting sustainable growth through more competitiveness and investments 4. tackling unemployment and the social consequences of the crisis 5. modernising … Continue reading
Alberta / Fast Tracking Skilled Immigrants or Training Canadians ? (video)
A fast track for skilled immigrants takes effect today, but should we be training more Canadians. Source: via Alberta Primetime – Alberta’s Fast Track for Skilled Immigrants.
US / Five states without a state-set minimum wage, Louisiana is one of them
A recent national report shows that Louisiana is one of only five states without a state-set minimum wage, but state officials say it doesn’t really matter. The National Conference of State Legislators report shows that Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee have no set minimums that must be paid to workers in private or … Continue reading
Canada / In effect today: The new Job Alerts system to Employement Insurance Recipient
Employment Insurance changes come into effect today Contentious changes to employment insurance are now in effect. Beginning Sunday, people on EI face stricter, more complex rules for keeping their benefits, with the goal of getting unemployed workers back into the workforce sooner. To help people get back to work, the government has also launched a … Continue reading
Children / Preschools / A bonus for hiring men
Researchers Inga Wernersson and Ingrid Granbom reviewed efforts to include men in the traditionally woman-dominated field. They looked at different policies to include more men at different levels of teaching since the 1960s. There were efforts in the 60s and 70s to increase their representation in teacher training, but the efforts did not address the … Continue reading
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