Inequality between the sexes cannot fully explain figures which showed female graduates were paid 14.3 per cent less than their male counterparts, a UOW academic says. The 2011 GradStats report showed a large pay gap in architecture, commerce and earth sciences, but equal pay in traditional male fields of engineering and mathematics. Nadia Verrucci, a [...]
According to Korean Women Link’s analysis of 300 counseling cases handled by the organisation in 2011, 100 cases, or 33 percent, were related to sexual harassment within the workplace. These cases accounted for the largest portions of claims. In 44% of the sexual harassment cases, the perpetrators were either the employers or senior employees. Many [...]
Seven out of 10 working women claim that their employer does not have an equal opportunity policy at work to avoid discrimination and harassment, a study has shown. One in every 10 women experienced some form of sexual harassment at work but half did not report the abuse or avoided the perpetrator. Only one in [...]
Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday January 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on January 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on January 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]
Every weekend it has been the same ritual for so many months. Buying the newspaper, going through the classified and the employment sections inch by column inch, marking job offers that could offer a chance, even remotely. Next comes the posting of applications, then the wait for interviews. That is as far as Harshini Hathurusinghe [...]
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On January 2, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) called on the government to review its recent decision to allow foreigners to work in sectors where locals were already employed, according to Bernama. This policy decision would have a “far reaching and serious impact” on the long term employment of locals because they would be [...]
MAHALLA EL-KUBRA, EGYPT — Much was made of Facebook, Twitter and the role social media played in lending a sense of youth and modernity to the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Then came the ascendancy of political Islam, which seems to be leading Egypt in a different direction entirely. But the real roots of [...]
The ministry has asked grassroots authorities to improve handling of labour disputes to ensure the country’s 240 million migrants are paid before the Spring Festival, which falls on Jan 23. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the top trade union organisation, released a statement on Thursday Dec 29, asking nationwide unions to make efforts to [...]
PHNOM PENH (TrustLaw)–Sophea Chrek started working at a garment factory in Phnom Penh in 2000, at the age of 20, shortly after she dropped out of school to help support her family. Chrek found a way out of the garment industry in 2005, but she continues to surround herself with its politics and its workers’ [...]
