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PERU: Women Workers Forced into Informal Economy
Peru :: IN :: USA | about 4 hours ago
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In Peru, 51 percent of all jobs are generated by the informal economy, a sector that has a female face, as more than 60 percent of the women workers in the country are forced into informality, with only 15 percent having health coverage and a mere four...
Tags: Peruvian, street vendors, informality economies, women workers, Lima, Edgar Galv�n, Peru, Labor, Labour relations, Decent work, Employment compensation, Social Issues, Employment law, Labour law, Employment, Informal sector
St. Joseph County Council OKs funds shift to cover overtime costs :$181,000 transfer to help pay county police.
South Bend :: IN :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility Joseph County Council OKs funds shift to cover overtime costs $181,000 transfer to help pay county police...Joseph County Council on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency transfer of $181,000 to the Sheriff's Department to replenish jail and county...
Tags: Tom Nowicki, St. Joseph County Council, overtime costs, Department, overtime account, corrections officer, county police, police overtime, South Bend, Labour relations, Working time, Overtime, Employment law, Labor rights, Labor history, Sheriff, Law Crime, Labor
Aussie prison guards racking up overtime
Brisbane :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Overtime paid prison guards has cost the Australian state of New South Wales millions, Peter Achterstraat, the state's auditor-general, said. Achterstraat said the total prison overtime bill for the most recent fiscal year came to $40.7 million Australian...
Tags: Corrective Services, prison guard, Australia, Brisbane, Working time, Overtime, Employment compensation, Employment law, Labor history, Law Crime, Labour relations, Business Finance, Salary, Labor, Sydney
Corporate Grinch: GE Threatens to Kill Christmas Rather than Negotiate with Workers in Good Faith
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility NBC’s failure to bargain fairly with the union that represents nearly 3,000 of the network’s producers, writers and technicians has put the lighting of the world's most famous Christmas tree at serious risk...CWA) Local 11 president Ed McEwan said the...
Tags: NBC Tree, New York City, Labour relations, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Union busting, NBC, Today, National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, Trade unions, Labor
Gov’t to hold 3-day conference on RP’s compliance with ILO Convention 87
Dole :: France | 1 day ago
Credibility To boost its efforts towards improving the country’s compliance with the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No. National Tripartite Conference on the Principles of Freedom of Association on December 2 to 4, 2009 in Manila. Labor and Employment...
Tags: ILO Convention, ilo mission, Philippines, Marianito D. Roque, tripartite conference, collective bargaining, technical cooperation, France, Dole, Labor, Labour relations, International Labour Organization, Employment law, Labor rights
Health care company seeks Pa. wage-law exemption
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Pa. — A health care company told Pennsylvania's highest court Tuesday the company should not be bound by the state's minimum-wage and overtime laws in compensating employees who provide companionship and other non-medical services to elderly and other...
Tags: Bayada Nurses Inc., health care, care company, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Harrisburg, Labour relations, Health economics, Minimum wage, Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax, Overtime, Employment compensation, Social Issues, Employment law, Law Crime, Labor, Home care
Bar hostesses to form labor union
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago
Credibility Facing unpaid wages and sexual harassment, a group of women who work as hostesses at 'kyabakura" bars plan to form a labor union to demand better treatment, sources familiar with the move said Tuesday. Kyabakura is a combination of the words "cabaret"...
Tags: labor union, Japan, Tōkyō, Trade union, Labour relations, Discrimination, Bar, Sexual harassment, Labor, Host and hostess clubs
Firms 'not ready' for worker strife
Dublin :: Ireland | 1 day ago
Credibility Less than half of firms have formal written guidelines on how to tackle grievances among a group of workers, new research reveals. The UCD study found 78.5% of businesses had a policy dealing with a problem involving one employee, but just 42% had rules...
Tags: Ireland, Dublin, Labour relations, Industrial relations, Politics, Workplace conflict, Employment, Business law, Labor, War Conflict
Union top cop flames predecessor
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Capitol Police union chairman is promising more transparency while also taking a few shots at his predecessor. Konczos and his seven-member executive board are hoping that the new contract and change in style of leadership will boost union membership,...
Tags: Jim Konczos, U.S. Capitol Police Department, Matt Tighe, Washington, Collective bargaining, Trade union, Labour relations, On, AFL-CIO, Labor
Court rules against overtime wages for caregivers
Manila :: Philippines | 3 days ago
Credibility The High Court of Justice on Sunday rejected a petition by Yolanda Gloten, a caregiver from the Philippines, who asked the court to overrule a 2007 decision by the National Labor Court, saying she was not entitled to overtime wages for round-the-clock...
Tags: National Labor Court, overtime wages, Kav Laoved, Yolanda Gloten, Israeli, Philippines, Manila, Labour relations, Working time, Overtime, Employment compensation, Employment law, Labor rights, Labor history, Law Crime, Labor
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