Critics from the right and even the ruling Socialist Party have condemned the proposals of French President Francois Hollande's cabinet to reform the labor code.
South Korea plans to make workers, who underperform markedly compared with fellow workers, fired more easily, while allowing companies to change their regulations on employment with less support from workers.
A South Korea-born Canadian pastor was sentenced to lifetime labor for subversion, the supreme court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced Wednesday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will work to boost the minimum wage to a national average of ¥1,000 per hour, through a policy encouraging wage hikes of about 3 percent every year. He made the remarks during a Tuesday meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy that he chairs.
The Cambodian government has unveiled its national jobs strategy for the next decade, gearing up for the challenges and opportunities of ASEAN integration and the kingdom's continued economic rise, local media reported Friday.
A nationwide demonstration and a series of strikes will be launched by labor unions in Finland on Friday to protest against government measures aimed at reducing labor costs.
More than 500 representatives from Chinese enterprises operating in southern Vietnam gathered here on Saturday for a meeting during which they were updated with the latest information on the Labor Law of Vietnam.
A political adviser called for regulation and supervision to protect women from being discriminated against in employment during the ongoing two sessions.
Even as growth slows and labor costs skyrocket, foreign investors keep pouring capital into China.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of Hong Kong stood at 3.3 percent in the October to December period of 2014, same as that in September to November, according to the latest statistics released on Monday by the Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government.
Kailash Satyarthi, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace 2014, said on Sunday that he is hopeful of winning the war against child slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace 2014, said on Sunday that he is hopeful of winning the war against child slavery.
Vietnam will likely obtain higher gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2014 based on strong exports and low inflation so far this year, according to Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).
The formation of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 is expected to boost Vietnam's Gross Domestic Production (GDP) by 14.5 percent and employment rate by 10.5 percent, according to a study by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Secretariats of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Myanmar government and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) are planning to collect the data on child labor as part of a four-year plan for elimination of child labor in the country, according to Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security Wednesday.
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, and scores of its employees at a store in central China's Hunan Province have agreed to seek an out-of-court settlement after the conclusion of a two-day arbitration over a labor dispute.
Denmark's nascent economic recovery is on the verge of being cut short due to a rapid decline in unemployment levels for skilled industrial laborers, analysts here worry.
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