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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
Stuart Bell

Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Electronics supply chain labour

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  • Stuart Bell on 08 Feb 13
     
    New efforts by HP to limit use of temporary student workers
Kirsten Newitt

China amending labor law to protect 'contractors' - 0 views

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China labour law

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The number of independent contractors has increased rapidly since the labor contract law was revised in 2007 to provide better protection for employees, said Uzhitu, vice-chairman of the NPC Finance and Economic Committee
  • Under the current law, employers can hire contractors to do temporary, supplementary or backup jobs. The proposed revision creates a clearer definition for these conditions. The bill also includes an article requiring agencies and employers to follow the principle of "equal pay for equal work" when negotiating payment for their contractors.
Kirsten Newitt

Jobs as a Scorecard: Latest trends in global labour markets - World Bank - 0 views

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employment World Bank crisis

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 30 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • According to the latest edition of JobTrends—a quarterly series monitoring labor markets in a sample of emerging economies—employment growth maintained its gradual ascent in the first quarter of 2012. In the countries surveyed, continued economic growth helped employment reach a growth rate of 2.9 percent in that period.
  • Keeping with the overall trend, labor markets in Europe and Central Asia continued then their steady recovery, with striking declines in unemployment in Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, and the Russian Federation. Similarly, selected labor markets in Latin America also improved, amid a slowdown in economic growth. In the four East Asian countries included in the report, employment and wage growth improved, with China’s employment growth jumping to 9.9 percent.
  • At the same time, however, the median unemployment rate increased slightly in the sample from 5.8 to 6.2 percent, signaling that some economies may have then started to have difficulties maintaining a high pace of job creation, as they were continuing to feel the effects of the financial crisis in advanced economies.
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  • The World Bank now projects that developing country growth as a whole will slow to 5.3 percent in 2012, with GDP growth in high-income and Euro Area countries trailing far behind at 1.4 and -0.3 percent respectively
  • Despite this somewhat gloomy prognosis for the near future, emerging and other developing countries still have a great potential to “switch over”, and in the mid-term, consolidate their position as the new engines of global economic growth.
Kirsten Newitt

Shenzhen trade union promises more direct elections | China Labour Bulletin - 0 views

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China trade unions

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Direct elections at enterprise trade unions will become increasingly commonplace in Shenzhen, the deputy head of the city’s trade union federation, Wang Tongxin, predicted following the highly publicised election of a new trade union chairman at the Omron electronics factory in Shenzhen this weekend.
  • Although relatively few enterprise trade unions have direct elections at the moment, Wang said, the union federation would heavily promote direct elections so that in the future such events “will not be news, nor pioneering, but rather just normal work practice.” The union is already targeting some 163 enterprises in the city, each employing upwards of 1,000 workers, for direct elections over the coming year, he told the Southern Metropolis Daily.
  • The election came about as a direct result of a strike by several hundred workers at the plant two months earlier on 29 March demanding better pay and benefits as well as a more representative and effective trade union at the plant.
Kirsten Newitt

McKinsey report on global labour market trends - June 2012 - 0 views

www.mckinsey.com/...the_world_at_work

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.
Stuart Bell

BBC News - Nepal's World Cup trail brings misery - 0 views

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Qatar Migrant labour

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  • Stuart Bell on 18 Nov 13
     
    Report on Nepalese migrant workers in Qatar. in wake of Amnesty International report on working conditions
Kirsten Newitt

New Report from Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Conditions in South Africa's Fruit and... - 0 views

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HRW South Africa agriculture labour standards

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Kirsten Newitt on 24 Aug 11
     
    Human Rights Watch report, Aug 2011. Workers in Western Cape province who help produce South Africa's renowned wines and fruit are denied adequate housing, proper safety equipment, and basic labor rights, HRW said in a report released today. The government of South Africa, along with the industries that employ these laborers, should take immediate steps to improve their working and housing conditions, HRW said. The 96-page report documents conditions that include on-site housing that is unfit for living, exposure to pesticides without proper safety equipment, lack of access to toilets or drinking water while working, and efforts to block workers from forming unions. While the Western Cape's fruit and wine industries contribute billions of rand to the country's economy, support tourism, and are enjoyed by consumers around the world, their farmworkers earn among the lowest wages in South Africa. The report also describes insecure tenure rights and threats of eviction for longtime residents on farms.
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