TheAssociationofPublicAdministrationEmployeescalledMondayforanopen-endedstrikestartingTuesdayinallstateinstitutions.Thestrike,accompaniedwithacentralsit-inatBei
Britain'slabormarketbuckedtepideconomicgrowthinthesecondquarterastheunemploymentrateunexpectedlyfelltoitslowestsince1975,officialdatashowedonWednesday.Theunempl
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.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday evening called on striking teachers to reconsider their stance and resume duty, reiterating that the present economy cannot sustain an expanded wage bill.
Myanmar government is launching a low-cost housing project for workers in industrial zones to help share the cost burden that private factories must bear following the enactment of a national minimum wage on Sept. 1, reports said on Tuesday.
The introduction of a new minimum wage on workers in Myanmar has initially left about 500 workers sacked, an official report said Monday.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have agreed to a wage hike issue for the DPRK workers employed by South Korean companies running factories in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday citing industry sources.
Some major global brands have voiced support for the Myanmar government's proposed minimum daily wage proposal, saying that a guaranteed pay rate would help promote investment in the country's garment industry and raise the living standard of its workers, an official report said Thursday.
A group of South Korean businessmen representing businesses running factories in the Kaesong industrial complex headed for the border town of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) amid the ongoing wage row between the two sides. The delegation crossed the inter-Korean land border on Friday morning to visit Kaesong, just north of the heavily fortified demarcation line, according to the Unification Ministry.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reconfirmed their different positions on wage hike for DPRK workers in the Kaesong industrial zone during Tuesday contact, Seoul's unification ministry said on Wednesday.
New Zealand labor costs rose by 1.8 percent in the year to the end of June, with non-wage costs rising faster than pay packets, the government statistics agency announced Tuesday.
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.
Swiss voters rejected an initiative to introduce a nationwide minimum wage in a referendum on Sunday.
Representatives of 18 opposition-aligned trade unions and associations on Wednesday called a weeklong strike scheduled for April 17-22.
U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order formally raising the minimum wage for federal workers during an event Wednesday at the White House.
U.S. President Barack Obama played it safe with Tuesday night's State of the Union Address -- so safe that experts said his proposals are unlikely to help a struggling middle class.
A majority of garment and shoe workers have returned to work as factories reopened on Thursday after a week-long closure due to nationwide strikes over wage; however, protesting trade unions were still leading workers to go on strikes.
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