China's factory activity shrank again in December as demand at home and abroad slackened, a purchasing managers' survey showed on Friday.
China 2030: new World Bank research report on China - 0 views
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Major new research report that provides an assessment of the Chinese economy and recommendations for its medium term development strategy.
Apple faces its 'Nike moment' over working conditions in Chinese factories | Technology... - 0 views
Egypt's new labour movement comes of age - 0 views
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Ben Moxham blog on the current state of trade unions in Egypt.
The development of collective bargaining in China - two case studies - 0 views
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Article from China Labour Bulletin. Looks at labour disputes and related worker-management dialogue in two factories: Citizen Watch factory in Shenzhen and a Tesco supplier in Jinhua. Aims to give an insight into how labour disputes are being resolved in China and how collective bargaining processes are beginning to develop.
China's factory activity shrinks further - 0 views
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"While the pace of slowdown is stabilising somewhat, weakening external demand is starting to bite," said Qu Hongbin, China economist at HSBC.
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China's once turbo-charged economy is on track to slow for a fourth successive quarter, easing further from the first quarter's 9.7% annual growth rate with economists expecting the final three months of the year to have slipped below 9.5%.
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Cannes G20 Leaders' Final Declaration - 1 views
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Employment and social protection are both foregrounded in the opening paragraphs. Announcement of new Employment Taskforce, to be convened under the Mexican presidency, with an initial focus on youth unemployment. Several international organisations, including ILO, IMF, World Bank, to report to the G20 Finance ministers on best approaches to growth and job creation.
World of Work Report 2011- ILO says world heading for a new and deeper jobs recession, ... - 2 views
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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.
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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.
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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.
EU strategy on corporate responsibility - 0 views
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New EU communication on CSR and responsible business, issued 25 October 2011
China: decent work for migrant workers? - 1 views
Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts: joint EC-ILO study - 1 views
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Trade negotiations -bilateral, regional or multilateral - routinely lead to debates on the implications for employment. Factual assessments of the employment and distributional impacts of trade agreements are, however, too often missing. This book tries to address this disconnect between the prominence of trade and employment linkages in the public debate and the relative absence of factual assessments of the employment implications of trade by taking stock of the most recent evidence, and by providing guidance on the design of tools to assess the employment impacts of trade.
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