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Kirsten Newitt

Mexico passes radical labour reforms | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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Mexico labour law

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 14 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Mexico's senate has approved a wide-reaching labour reform bill in the biggest shakeup of the country's job market in more than four decades.
  • The bill, which the government said will create up to 400,000 jobs a year, contains a raft of measures, including changes that would make it easier for firms to hire and fire workers and shorten labour disputes. However, parts of the bill that sought to make unions more transparent were cut back.
  • Under the new measures, work contracts will be more flexible, enshrining trial periods and initial training contracts in labour laws. Regulations will be tightened on outsourcing of personnel, while the minimum wage will rise from an hourly to a daily rate.The reform strengthens the rights of working women, including outlawing gender-based discrimination and helping mothers plan their work schedules. Unions will have to publish their regulatory statutes on the ministry of labour's website, but many of the tougher measures – including rules to force them to show how they manage members' fees – were dropped.
Kirsten Newitt

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' Conclusions - Paris, 26-27 September 2011 - 0 views

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G20 crisis

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • To achieve these objectives, we ask our Leaders to consider the following policy recommendations: I – Improve active employment policies, particularly for young people and other vulnerable groups
  • II – Strengthen social protection by establishing social protection floors adapted to each country
  • III – Promote effective application of social and labour rights
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  • IV – Strengthen the coherence of economic and social policies
  • (8) Consolidate employment as a priority of economic policy
  • 9) Preparing our young people to find decent jobs
  • Accordingly, we agree on the following recommendations:
  • (10) Labour market policies for better social inclusion and access to jobs
  • (11) Employment policies informed by the contribution of relevant international organisations
  • Accordingly, we agree on the following recommendations: (15) Develop nationally defined social protection floors with a view to achieving strong, sustainable and balanced economic growth and social cohesion
  • (16) Encourage international organisations to coordinate their actions more effectively to help countries develop nationally determined social protection floors
  • (17) Ensure effective financing for the implementation of nationally determined social protection floors
  • (21) Ensure respect of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
  • (22) Promote international labour standards
  • (26) Fully implement the 2008 Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation
  • (27) Strengthen our policy coherence
  • (28) Further enhance coordination among international organisations
  • we recommend setting up an intergovernmental task force on employment, composed of the G20 representatives, with the contribution of relevant international organisations and consulting social partners as appropriate. The task force will provide input to the G20 Labour and Employment ministerial meeting to be held under the Mexican Presidency in 2012. Its objectives and mandate are set out in the Annex.
Kirsten Newitt

Singapore strike exposes labour friction - 0 views

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Singapore China strike

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 06 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • The walkout has highlighted a difficult balancing act as Singapore’s falling birth rate forces it to rely on foreign labour to keep its decades-long economic miracle, envied round the world, on track. The influx of migrant workers from China and Bangladesh has caused friction as “heartlander” Singaporeans have complained about crowded public transport and competition for housing.
  • Kirsten Newitt on 06 Dec 12
     
    Interesting article about the Chinese bus driver strike in Singapore, set in the broader labour market / economic context.
Stuart Bell

Global Employment Trends for Women 2012: Labour market gender gap: Two steps forward, o... - 0 views

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gender ILO

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  • Stuart Bell on 17 Dec 12
     
    "Women face higher unemployment rates than men globally, with no improvements likely in the coming years, according to an ILO report. The ILO's Global Employment Trends for Women 2012 looks at the gender gap in unemployment, employment, labour force participation, vulnerability, and segregation in jobs and economic sectors. Globally, the gap in unemployment and employment-to-population ratios was moving towards convergence before the crisis. The crisis reversed this trend in the hardest-hit regions. In the advanced countries, the crisis seems to have affected men in trade- dependent sectors more than women in health and education. In developing countries, women were strongly hit in trade-related sectors."
Kirsten Newitt

Launch of UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2012: Policies for inclusive and balanced... - 0 views

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UNCTAD

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 28 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • In this contribution to the on-going debate about the relationship between income inequality and growth, UNCTAD argues that rising inequality is neither a necessary condition for sound economic growth, nor its natural result. By contrast, full participation of all citizens in the proceeds of the economy as a whole in indispensable for successful and sustained development.
  • The Report further discusses what are widely perceived to be the main structural causes of recent changes in income distribution, including trade, technological change, and finance-led globalization. It argues that the impacts of globalization and technological change on domestic income distribution are not uniform. Rather, they depend on initial conditions and on how macroeconomic, financial and labour market policies interact with the forces of globalization and technological development. Structural changes do not necessarily lead to greater inequality if appropriate employment, wage, and income distribution policies are in place
  • Finally, the Report examines how labour-market institutions and policies, together with an appropriate macroeconomic framework, can respond to current challenges and lead to sustained growth and more inclusive development. It starts with the proposition that slow growth has a strong impact on inequality, due to high unemployment, which weakens the bargaining power of labour.
Stuart Bell

US investors call for end to human trafficking in supply chains - 0 views

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forced labour supply chain labour

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  • Stuart Bell on 25 May 11
     
    US investor coalition, ICCR, is pressing 25 companies to adopt policies to avoid potential human trafficking in their supply chains
Stuart Bell

USDOL Toolkit on reducing child and forced labor in supply chains - 0 views

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'child labour' USDOL

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  • Stuart Bell on 08 Jan 13
     
    Online guidance covering risk assessment, monitoring and remediation
Kirsten Newitt

What does it mean to be a slave in the 21st century? Guardian Development - 1 views

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forced labour

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    Piece by Roger Plant
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McKinsey report on global labour market trends - June 2012 - 0 views

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employment

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Over the past three decades, as developing economies industrialized and began to compete in world markets, a global labor market started taking shape. As more than one billion people entered the labor force, a massive movement from “farm to factory” sharply accelerated growth of productivity and per capita GDP in China and other traditionally rural nations, helping to bring hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. To raise productivity, developed economies invested in labor-saving technologies and tapped global sources of low-cost labor.
  • Today, the strains on this market are becoming increasingly apparent. In advanced economies, demand for high-skill labor is now growing faster than supply, while demand for low-skill labor remains weak. Labor’s overall share of income, or the share of national income that goes to worker compensation, has fallen, and income inequality is growing as lower-skill workers—including 75 million young people—experience unemployment, underemployment, and stagnating wages.
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