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Stuart Bell

Better Work to Launch Programme in Bangladesh « Better Work - 0 views

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    "The International Labour Organization and International Finance Corporation have announced the establishment of a Better Work programme in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. As with its other country programmes, Better Work Bangladesh is a partnership with government, employers, workers, international buyers and other relevant stakeholders. "
Stuart Bell

DFID Private-sector-approach-paper-May2011 - 0 views

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    DFID's new private sector policy paper "Our new approach to working with the private sector is about us doing more with and for private enterprise, extending this work in new areas, and doing it better. We want private sector thinking to become as much part of DFID's DNA as our work with charities and governments. The new approach will deliver results for poor people: better job opportunities and incomes; more readily available and affordable finance for households and small businesses; and more accessible, better quality healthcare, schooling and basic services."
Stuart Bell

UN working-group on business and human rights report - 1 views

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    Update report on dissemination of the UN Principles and proposed work to promote it over the next year, including projects and case studies
Kirsten Newitt

World of Work Report 2011- ILO says world heading for a new and deeper jobs recession, ... - 2 views

  • In a grim analysis issued on the eve of the G20 leaders summit, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says the global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that will further delay the global economic recovery and may ignite more social unrest in scores of countries.
  • The new “World of Work Report 2011: Making markets work for jobs” says a stalled global economic recovery has begun to dramatically affect labour markets. On current trends, it will take at least five years to return employment in advanced economies to pre-crisis levels, one year later than projected in last year’s report.
  • The report also features a new “social unrest” index that shows levels of discontent over the lack of jobs and anger over perceptions that the burden of the crisis is not being shared fairly. It notes that in over 45 of the 119 countries examined, the risk of social unrest is rising.
Kirsten Newitt

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

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    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.
Stuart Bell

World Development Report 2013: Jobs - 0 views

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    "The World Development Report 2013: Jobs stresses the role of strong private sector led growth in creating jobs and outlines how jobs that do the most for development can spur a virtuous cycle. The report finds that poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empower women to invest more in their children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and as less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs foster diversity and provide alternatives to conflict."
Kirsten Newitt

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

  • 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.
Stuart Bell

Factory flaws go live, National, Phnom Penh Post - 0 views

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    Factory transparency from Better Work Cambodia The site, created and maintained by the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, will publicly name factories that violate two or more ILO workplace standards."
Stuart Bell

Brazil: from decent consumption to decent work - 1 views

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    Alastair Usher blogs on decent work in Brazil
Stuart Bell

World of Work 2014 report: ILO: Countries investing in high quality jobs can make econo... - 1 views

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    "The ILO's flagship report on the world of work shows, for the first time, that quality jobs can drive sustained growth in emerging and developing countries."
Kirsten Newitt

World Bank policy note: When Job Earnings are behind Poverty Reduction - 0 views

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    Improvement in labor market conditions has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty success stories observed in the last decade-that is the primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 countries where poverty increased substantially. In 10 of these countries, labor income explained more than half of the change in poverty, and in another 4 countries, it accounted for more than 40 percent of the reduction in poverty. A declining dependency rate accounts for over a fifth of the reduction in poverty in 10 out of 16 countries, while transfers and other nonearned incomes account for more than a quarter of the reduction in poverty in 9 of these countries. A further decomposition of the contribution of labor income to poverty reduction in Bangladesh, Peru, and Thailand found that changes in individual characteristics (education, work experience, and region of residence) were important, but that overall, increases in real earnings among the poor matter the most.
Kirsten Newitt

China and ILO sign South-South cooperation agreement - 0 views

  • Under the “Partnership Agreement for Promoting Technical Cooperation with a Focus on South-South Initiatives”, the People’s Republic of China is committing US$1 million over three years to support South-South cooperation and the Decent Work agenda. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China will assist developing countries in Asia promote full employment and decent work, through innovative technical cooperation projects that will facilitate the dissemination of good practices.
  • The agreement makes China the second of the so-called BRICS countries (Brazil, China, India, the Russian Federation, and South Africa) to sign a South-South agreement with the ILO.
Stuart Bell

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

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    Report on Nepalese migrant workers in Qatar. in wake of Amnesty International report on working conditions
Stuart Bell

Are Current Approaches to Responsible Supply Chain Management Working? - Regional Advis... - 1 views

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    Blog arguing for a Responsible Supply Chain Management model that creates 'CSR risk free sourcing and investment zones' through collaboration with governments and suporting enforcement, rather than pushing for improved standards through private initiatives and auditing
Stuart Bell

Combating Child Labour EU Staff Working Doc Feb 2010 - 1 views

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    Commission working document covering EU policy and xisting measures in the context of MDGs, trade, procurement, bilateral development assistance etc
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