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

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_15523904.htm China labour law
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  • 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.
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Pro poor maternity benefit schemes for rural women in Tamil Nadu - 1 views

www.epw.in/...it_Schemes_and_Rural_Women.pdf women maternity India
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  • Kirsten Newitt on 22 Jun 12
     
    EPW article, June 2012 Describes a programme to provide women living below the poverty line with maternity benefits.
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Aung San Suu Kyi signals change in Burma, but investors should proceed with caution - C... - 1 views

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  • Kirsten Newitt on 21 Jun 12
     
    John Ruggie on foreign investment in Myanmar, June 2012.
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McKinsey report on global labour market trends - June 2012 - 0 views

www.mckinsey.com/...the_world_at_work employment
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  • 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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Shenzhen trade union promises more direct elections | China Labour Bulletin - 0 views

www.clb.org.hk/110069 China trade unions
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  • 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.
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New ILO Recommendation calls for Social Protection Floor for all - 0 views

www.ilo.org/...index.htm ILO social protection
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  • The Recommendation requests countries to implement their Social Protection Floors as early as possible in national development processes .
  • Countries are encouraged to establish social protection floors (**) as a “fundamental element of their national social security systems” and as part of their social, economic and environmental development plans. Those countries who cannot afford the basic social protection measures could seek international cooperation and support to complement their own efforts.
  • The new ILO Recommendation is the first autonomous one to be voted on social security in 68 years. It comes 24 years after the last legal instrument on social protection was discussed by delegates from governments, workers and employers back in 1988.
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The Promise and Peril of Post-MFA Apparel Production - 0 views

siteresources.worldbank.org/...EP84.pdf garments poverty reduction World Bank
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  • Kirsten Newitt on 14 Jun 12
     
    World Bank note (May 2012) on wage and poverty alleviation trends linked to the garment sector. "A radical shift in apparel production between countries over the last few years has had mixed results in wages and poverty reduction across the developing world. This is particularly true since the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) in 2005, which abolished export and import quotas. While most people predicted that China would gain, because of low wages, and all others would lose, many other Asian apparel exporters in fact benefited, such as Bangladesh, India, Vietnam and Pakistan. And not just because of low wages -salaries tended to increase in most exporting countries-but because of domestic policies supporting the textile industry. On the other hand, countries like Honduras, Mexico, Morocco and Sri Lanka experienced falling apparel employment, something that would appear to be bad news as jobs for women and workers most likely to be closest to poverty, were lost. But Mexico's experience suggests that shifting out of apparel may not be necessarily negative news when the country is moving up the value chain into more advanced manufacturing. In fact, this would be a sign of economic development as long as the shift into higher-value goods and services is possible. What matters is for countries to have policies that focus on improving competitiveness in the long-run, but also workforce programs to help workers make the transition. Increasing apparel exports is a good thing for poverty reduction in developing countries but moving up the ladder is an inevitable step in the quest for prosperity. Let's allow the textile industry to keep moving across borders and to help countries lift themselves out of poverty."
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China and ILO sign South-South cooperation agreement - 0 views

www.ilo.org/...index.htm ILO china South South cooperation
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  • 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.
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Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights - ITUC-CSI-IGB - 0 views

www.ituc-csi.org/ey-of-violations-of,11418.html ITUC 'freedom of association'
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  • Stuart Bell on 07 Jun 12
     
    ITUC's annual country-by-country survey of the state of trade union rights
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Some thoughts on the outlook for Chinese factories in 2012 - 0 views

www.clb.org.hk/110068 china
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  • Stephen Schwartz, chief economist-Asia at BBVA Research in Hong Kong, said he doesn’t see declining exports as a systematic problem at this stage because there’s enough demand on the domestic front. In the future, he said, it’s going to be very important for China to move to higher-valued added manufacturing and to increase productivity in order to offset higher wages. Although it’s a very slow process, he added, China’s ability to catch up quickly and do things quickly is always underestimated.
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2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 0 views

www.state.gov/...190814.htm 'labour rights' 'human
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  • Stuart Bell on 30 May 12
     
    2011 US State Dept analysis of human rights situation country-by-country. Includes labour rights.
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Jobs, Justice and Equity: Africa Progress Report 2012 - 1 views

www.africaprogresspanel.org/...L_VERSION_EN_FOR_PRESSPACK.pdf Africa
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  • Kirsten Newitt on 11 May 12
     
    New report published by the Africa Progress Panel
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New World Bank / ILO inventory of policy responses to the crisis - 0 views

www.ilo.org/...f crisis decent work ILO World Bank
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  • Kirsten Newitt on 27 Apr 12
     
    Database of responses with accompanying synthesis report.
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Jayati Ghosh on aid to India - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ayati-ghosh-aid-india-uk-video India development policy DFID
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  • Jayati Ghosh says aid from Britain benefits the UK more than it does India, and makes a negligible difference to relieving poverty. She discusses India's rapid growth and its social and economic inequality, and calls for an economic strategy that focuses on secure employment
  • Kirsten Newitt on 04 Apr 12
     
    Short video interview (3m) with Jayati Ghosh
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