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Unionists of South Korea’s public broadcaster MBC went on an indefinite general strike early Monday, demanding the resignation of the president and personnel reforms over what they called biased coverage of major social issues by the broadcaster. The union has argued that the broadcaster has intentionally omitted or reduced the coverage of politically sensitive issues, [...]

The Saudi Arabia government has threatened to end the hiring of Nepalese migrant workers to the country, if Nepal will not provide safe access to housemaids stopped in India. India stopped about 3,000 Nepali women illegally flying to the Gulf country last week upon the request of Nepal government. Flying from foreign airports for overseas [...]

Hours after Apple released its first quarter earnings, which showed a mind-blowing 44.7 percent profit, the New York Times published another in a series of articles illustrating some of the reasons behind Apple’s profit margin. Describing the conditions in which Chinese workers assemble iPhones, iPads and a panoply of Apple products, the report states: Employees [...]

The Indian government during 2011 failed to hold rights violators accountable or to carry out effective policies to protect vulnerable communities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. The government took no action to repeal the widely discredited Armed Forces Special Powers Act, disregarding the recommendations of political leaders and advisers, Human [...]

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The number of female workers in Korea surpassed 10 million for the first time in 2011, data showed Wednesday. The number of male workers in the same year was estimated at 14.15 million. The data also revealed that the number of working women in their 50s exceeded 2 million, outnumbering 20-something working females. Working males [...]

On 22 December 2012  more than 20 people who were trade unionists, labour activists and CAW members in Sri Lanka met to discuss what actions can be taken to follow-up on the Peoples’ Tribunal in March that called for a Asian Floor Wage for the garment sector in Sri Lanka. The meeting began by an [...]

Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday Jan 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on Jan 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on Jan 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]

Members belonging to the Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers’ Welfare Association staged a demonstration near the Collector’s office on Monday January 23. Their demands included fixation of minimum wages for domestic workers’ based on the price hike (index), to ratify the ILO convention supplemented by the recommendation on decent work for domestic workers, to ensure national [...]

A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation on workers’ rights in Saudi Arabia has uncovered alarming levels of child labour, discrimination and forced labour. The report, due to be delivered to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of the Gulf Kingdom’s trade policies on 25th January, found that Saudi Arabia is in violation [...]

Inequality between the sexes cannot fully explain figures which showed female graduates were paid 14.3 per cent less than their male counterparts, a UOW academic says. The 2011 GradStats report showed a large pay gap in architecture, commerce and earth sciences, but equal pay in traditional male fields of engineering and mathematics. Nadia Verrucci, a [...]

According to Korean Women Link’s analysis of 300 counseling cases handled by the organisation in 2011, 100 cases, or 33 percent, were related to sexual harassment within the workplace. These cases accounted for the largest portions of claims. In 44% of the sexual harassment cases, the perpetrators were either the employers or senior employees. Many [...]

Every weekend it has been the same ritual for so many months. Buying the newspaper, going through the classified and the employment sections inch by column inch, marking job offers that could offer a chance, even remotely. Next comes the posting of applications, then the wait for interviews. That is as far as Harshini Hathurusinghe [...]

On January 2, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) called on the government to review its recent decision to allow foreigners to work in sectors where locals were already employed, according to Bernama. This policy decision would have a “far reaching and serious impact” on the long term employment of locals because they would be [...]

MAHALLA EL-KUBRA, EGYPT — Much was made of Facebook, Twitter and the role social media played in lending a sense of youth and modernity to the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Then came the ascendancy of political Islam, which seems to be leading Egypt in a different direction entirely. But the real roots of [...]

The ministry has asked grassroots authorities to improve handling of labour disputes to ensure the country’s 240 million migrants are paid before the Spring Festival, which falls on Jan 23. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the top trade union organisation, released a statement on Thursday Dec 29, asking nationwide unions to make efforts to [...]

PHNOM PENH (TrustLaw)–Sophea Chrek started working at a garment factory in Phnom Penh in 2000, at the age of 20, shortly after she dropped out of school to help support her family. Chrek found a way out of the garment industry in 2005, but she continues to surround herself with its politics and its workers’ [...]

The year 2011 is ending as it began: with images of thousands of Egyptian women and men standing up against a Western-backed military regime — from a 10,000-strong march of women two days ago (Dec 21), to another mass Friday march today (Dec 23). These make it clear that the Egyptian revolution is ongoing, and [...]