Friday, December 29, 2017
Residents of Ontario, Canada’s largest and most affluent province, will see a wide-ranging spike in their social benefits beginning Monday. The changes include a hike in the minimum wage (to $14 an hour from its current $11.60 an hour), free...
Monday, December 25, 2017
PUNE: Thanks to the steps initiated by the civic administration, hundreds of construction workers in the city will be able to register with the labour welfare board and get authorized certificates. This, in turn, will help these workers, employed at...
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Earlier month, Iḷisaġvik College in Utqiaġvik — the only federally recognized tribal college in Alaska — announced that it will waive tuition for all Alaska Native students, starting next semester. The college offers associate degrees, vocational...
Thursday, December 21, 2017
La Commission européenne a proposé, jeudi, un texte censé apporter une meilleure protection et une plus grande transparence aux travailleurs occasionnels ou à temps très partie
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Madurai: Activists involved in migrant workers' welfare activities have called for India signing the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990. This was one of the five...
Monday, December 18, 2017
Over 15.6 million workers in the informal sector will suffer once the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) is finally passed into law, according to the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP).
Monday, December 18, 2017
More than a hundred civil society representatives from Union for the Mediterranean member countries met on 13 and 14 December in Madrid, Spain, to discuss the challenges facing the region. The 2017 Euromed Summit of Economic and Social...
Sunday, December 17, 2017
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Saturday approved a policy for the social upliftment of transgenders in the state by offering them pensions, ration cards, housing sites and other financial assistance for business activities. As per the transgender policy,...
Saturday, December 16, 2017
The South African government will extend fully subsidised free higher education to "poor and working class" youth from 2018, the presidency said on Saturday. Government would increase subsidies to universities from 0.68 percent to one percent of GDP, in...
Saturday, December 9, 2017
LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Finance Dr. Ayesha Ghaus Pasha on Friday said Punjab Social Protection Authority (PSPA) would provide technical and financial assistance to different departments in ongoing and future projects of Social Protection in...