China will need nearly a million more professional social workers by 2020 as rapid urbanization creates more groups in need, Civil Affairs Minister Li Liguo said on Tuesday, World Social Work Day.
The plight of domestic workers in Hong Kong has made headlines in recent years after several high-profile cases in which employers had beat and tortured their helpers.
LONDON - One in six migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong is a victim of forced labour and a significant proportion have been trafficked, rights campaigners said on Tuesday as they called for stronger protections for the city's maids.
When Zhou Jiangtao joined Ansteel Heavy Machinery Co. Ltd, he expected the life of stability and good salary traditionally guaranteed by state-owned companies.
The creation of a powerful militant workers' union in Australia is a step closer after members of the Maritime Union of Australia voted in favor of merging with the nation's Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, local media reported Tuesday.
The annual post-Spring Festival labor shortage in China's coastal manufacturing regions is less severe this year due to falling orders.
The Malaysian government on Friday clarified its plan to bring in Bangladeshi workers to meet workforce shortage, amid concerns over reports that some 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers will arrive to work in Malaysia in three years.
For many Chinese rural migrant workers, the Spring Festival holiday is a chance to buy their own home where they can eventually settle down in small counties.
The size of luggage carried by Chinese migrant workers returning home for the Spring Festival is often the reverse of their purchasing power; the bigger the bag, the less money spent.
China will apply its new concept of development to agricultural modernization to make the process more efficient, inclusive and environment-friendly, according to a policy document released on Wednesday.
The Finnish postal and logistic service provider Posti Group announced on Tuesday that it will launce cooperation negotiations, in which up to 860 employees will be laid off.
China will raise funds to help workers reestablish themselves should they lose their jobs when coal and steel firms close amid campaigns to cut overcapacity.
The worst cold snap in years disrupted travel plans of some Chinese as millions embarked on journeys home on Sunday, the first day of the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush.
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.
Ju Xiaolin, a technical migrant worker, was voted in as vice chair of China's trade union federation on Sunday.
An Australian government has dismissed the notion one of Australia's largest nickel refineries was forced to sack workers because of a lack of support.
Two trucks, carrying Cambodian garment factory workers, crashed into each other Tuesday morning, claiming the lives of four female workers with some 50 others injured, a local official confirmed.
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