According to the Express News Service, workers who came under exposure of mysterious gas leak at Foxconn factory in Sriperumbudur were admitted to Ramachandra Medical College Hospital, Porur, on Saturday morning (24th July) with complaints of giddiness, nausea and breathlessness. Later, all but 15 of them, were discharged after treatment. Of the remaining 15, five remained in [...]

At least nine female garment workers were injured on Tuesday in clashes with Cambodian riot police who used shields and electric shock batons to try to end a week-long strike over the suspension of a local union official, according to Reuters news on 27 July. More than 100 police, at least 50 in riot gear [...]

Industrial unrest has been spreading through China’s factories, with strikes breaking out in the south, east and north. China correspondent Damian Grammaticas has been to the industrial heartland in southern Guangdong province to examine why the strikes are happening and what the implications are. It is 0730 local time in Shenzhen, China’s factory heartland, and [...]

Malaysian labour law is being reviewed. Why should we care? Because at stake could be the job security of thousands of workers who may not even know what’s in the offing. To date, the proposed government amendments have been classified “secret”, which in itself is problematic. Still, those who have caught wind of the amendments [...]

Bahrain’s education ministry on Wednesday denied claims that it was abusing teachers’ rights by depriving them of breastfeeding time. A local paper on Tuesday said that teachers at a girls’ school in Muharraq, Bahrain’s second largest city, were up in arms with their principal for not allowing them to use their two daily hours to [...]

A  British woman teaching at The British School (BS), school for children of British citizens, in Kathmandu lost her job after informing the school management of being pregnant. Rolands Heidi, 35, was sacked from her job two day after she informed the school–operating under the guardianship of British Ambassador to Nepal–about her pregnancy on May [...]

Committee for Asian Women organised a two day training of trainers on Occupational Health and Safety for women workers in the manufacturing sector in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 23-24th May 2010 in collaboration with the Cambodian Workers Information Centre and the Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU). The training was attended by thirty participants from Thailand [...]

A string of suicides at a factory in China owned by Taiwan firm Foxconn has highlighted what some say is a stressful working environment for migrant workers. Foxconn says it is employing trained counsellors and installing more leisure facilities at the factory in Shenzhen to help its staff, as well as increasing salaries to boost [...]

Committee for Asian Women (CAW) together with Worker’s Information Centre (WIC) is organizing a forum on “Occupational Safety and Health for Manufacturing Workers in Thailand and Cambodia” after the two days trainings, 23-24 May 2010 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  The forum brings together 35 participants from the Trade Unions in Cambodia, Ministry of Labour, subject experts, [...]

GEFONT has condemned recently declared Industrial policy claiming it as anti-worker. Issuing a press communiqué by its central office, GEFONT mentioned that the policy recently issued by the Ministry of Industry in totality anti-worker. “The policy seems to prepare as per employers wish, without consulting trade unions. The intention of “No work-No Pay” mentioned in [...]