Employment Laws & Contracts

Redundancy Alternatives For UK Employers

going. It is an extremely stressful time both for employees facing potential redundancy and for employers and other HR and other managers involved in the redundancy process. Redundancies occur where a job no longer exists or...

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Unequal justice

Unequal justice Staff Writer In 2005, 19-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones of Houston was working for Halliburton/KBR in the Green Zone, Iraq. While there, she was gang-raped by several co-workers. In response to this outrage, company...

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Thousands of South Korean workers rally for 2nd day

SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of South Korean workers rallied Sunday for a second day, demanding the government scrap plans to enforce contentious laws they say are aimed at weakening labor unions. The government plans to...

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No discrimination against foreign workers

I agree with Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subrama-niam who, in reply to the Bagan Serai MP, said foreign workers need not have their own association to protect themselves. In many ways, the Government has been fair to...

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More To Gain From Best Sourcing

Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times As contractors undercut one another when making bids, and clients go for the cheapest deal, such low-educated and low-skilled workers often accept worse terms to keep their jobs, said unionists and...

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P.E.I. still lacks laws to protect foreign workers: AG

The province of P.E.I. does not have sufficiently strong mechanisms to protect foreign workers from exploitation, a concern the federal auditor general highlighted in a report this week. Sheila Fraser's report said the federal...

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U.S. House Extends Jobless Benefits And Home Credits

The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday afternoon to offer up to 20 more weeks of unemployment benefits to those who have been out of work a long time, sending the measure to President Obama for his...

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FedEx: They're Employees. No, They're Not

The feud over FedEx's "contractors" hints at battles to come involving the classification of workers Get ready for an intense new round in the long-running fight over which workers are independent contractors. For years,...

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Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83

In this Nov. 4, 2009 photo, Sonja Jackson, of Detroit, holds a Employment Guide standing in line while attending a job fair in Livonia, Mich. The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 _ and is...

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USW: Proposed Tariffs for China Dumping of OCTG Pipe Overdue

USW called today's order by the U.S. Department of Commerce for proposed anti-dumping tariffs on China pipe imports an overdue message for thousands of American laid off workers that trade laws are being enforced.

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