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Employment Law

Canada tightens rules on hiring temporary foreign workers

1 May 2013

Canada has announced a tightening of rules for hiring temporary foreign workers after a public outcry over abuses that saw Canadians losing their jobs.

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Industrial accident victim fights for others

5 Aug 2012

Hunan migrant worker Chen Yongfa, 32, lost his right arm in an industrial accident at a Shenzhen fabric factory 13 years ago, and the unscrupulous boss ran away.

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We can work it out

17 Jul 2012

Peter Duncan's greatest achievement has not been leading the international design firm, Hassell, through exponential growth in China, or the design and delivery of high-profile projects. It has...

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Helpers demand right to live away from employers

12 Jul 2012

Domestic workers complained of being treated like 'slaves' yesterday as they protested against a ban on living outside their employers' homes, and demanded that rules protecting their rights are...

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Rules will limit work when it's too hot

28 May 2012

The mainland is taking steps to protect workers from scorching temperatures, through what will likely be its first set of comprehensive occupational safety standards for working in the blazing...

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Paternity leave? Hire domestic staff instead

4 May 2012

Employers are resisting moves to impose mandatory paternity leave for staff, saying it would be a heavy blow at a time when the full impact of the year-old minimum wage is still kicking in and...

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

China keeping its edge despite grim talk

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Howard Winn

If StanChart doesn't want us, why keep inviting us?

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Leung 'hasn't thought about labour laws'

Leung Chun-ying has no plans to speed up a review of the minimum wage and 'has not thought about' workers' calls to raise the pay level in the light of inflation, a unionist lawmaker cited the...

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Safety down the tube

Lying on the hospital bed, Chen Xilong stared blankly at passers-by. His eyes were dull. He tried to move his head but was too weak. When tested on his ability to calculate, he could add one-digit...

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Minimum wages rise by average of 22pc

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security says 24 provincial or regional governments have raised minimum wages by an average of 22 per cent this year amid official concerns over social...

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Candidates opposed to regulating hours in workplace are not worth supporting

Eleanor Wong complains that the small voter turnout for the election of representatives for the Election Committee was because many of those entitled to vote had acted with indifference and...

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Labour row ends at lingerie maker

Hundreds of migrant workers at the lingerie maker Top Form International Holdings have returned to work at the company's plant in Shenzhen, in the latest high-profile labour dispute in the...

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Act now on the global jobs crisis, or risk a lost decade

The world employment outlook is dire. Unemployment stands at more than 200 million and is rising. The current rate of global jobs growth, at 1 per cent or less per year, will not replace the 30...

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