Portuguese transport workers' unions have called a 24-hour strike for Lisbon subway workers starting at 2300 GMT Monday in a protest against the Portuguese government's plans to privatize the subway system's management company Metropolitano de Lisboa, the Federation of Transport and Communications Unions (FECTRANS) said on Monday.
Cambodian striking workers stormed onto a footwear factory ground and hurled stones at Chinese supervisors, leaving at least two persons injuries, local media reported Tuesday.
A new study indicated that 43. 2 percent of Cambodian garment workers suffered from anemia and 15. 7 percent of workers are underweight, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Monday.
Cambodian trade unions on Wednesday launched a campaign to demand a 177 U.S. dollars monthly minimum wage in the garment and footwear sector, the current monthly minimum wage being 100 U.S. dollars, unionists and officials said.
Tens of workers from the DPRK, employed by South Korean companies running factories at the inter-Korean industrial zone, suffered fever and headaches due to possible benzene poisoning, local media reported Wednesday.
Australian government workers will live almost four years longer than other workers, according to a new study released on Wednesday.
As a migrant worker, Li Weichao spent much of his youth shifting from one temp job to another, living thousands of miles away from his family to perform backbreaking labor for minimal pay.
Out of a population of 100 million, some 11.8 million Filipinos are still jobless and there is an increasing pessimism among them of finding gainful employment soon, according to a recent survey conducted by a reputable survey firm in Manila.
The Chinese government is aiming to boost the economy and employment by cultivating a large force of technical workers through enhanced vocational education.
A Chinese labor union and four former employees have filed suits against Walmart after an arbitration committee rejected their cases demanding better compensation following the closure of a store in central Hunan Province.
The Thai military junta released 14 Cambodian migrant workers imprisoned last month for holding fake working visas, a Cambodian spokesman said Friday.
The Philippine government ordered Wednesday to verify a report that foreign domestic workers, including Filipino household service workers (HSWs), were being put in display and made available for "purchase" at "discounted prices" in some shopping malls in Singapore.
Cambodia's National Employment Agency (NEA) said Wednesday that there are 16,146 vacant jobs awaiting workers who have recently been deported from or fled Thailand in fears of a military regime's clampdown.
The Thai authorities have arrested 13 Cambodian migrant workers who were accused of using fraudulent work documents as at least 232,000 Cambodian laborers have been deported from or fled Thailand in fears of a roundup on illegal migrant workers, Cambodian officials said Sunday.
The number of Cambodian migrant workers, who have been deported from or fled Thailand over fears of a junta-led clampdown on illegal foreign workers, rose to 220, 000 on Wednesday.
Thailand's military-run National Council for Peace and Order on Monday clarified it had no policy to crack down on foreign migrant workers.
At least six Cambodian migrant workers were killed and 13 others injured after a truck carrying them crashed into a tree in the Chachoengsao province of Thailand on Saturday night, Cambodian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Koy Kuong confirmed Sunday.
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