Wage

2 May 2013

Former fashion jewellery saleswoman Rebecca Gonzales and former chief executive Ron Johnson have one thing in common: JC Penney no longer employs either.

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Wages strike by Lufthansa staff grounds 1,755 flights

23 Apr 2013

Nearly 150,000 passengers were affected as Germany's largest airline Lufthansa suspended almost its entire service for a full day because of a pay strike.

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The price of freedom

8 Apr 2013

Does it ever feel like all your money disappears on bills? That you are not really working for yourself at all, but rather for your landlord, a host of utility companies and the local food store...

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Business launches salvo over work limit

4 Apr 2013

A coalition of over 50 business associations is planning to take out advertisements to spell out their objections to the introduction of standard working hours.

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Wage increases part of approved income distribution plan

6 Feb 2013

The State Council on Tuesday approved long-delayed guidelines to reform the mainland's income distribution system, under which wages will be raised and state-owned enterprises will be required to...

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Why Hong Kong needs working hours law

30 Jan 2013

Legislator James Tien Pei-chun, in RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong, on January 20, urged our chief executive to look at "using imported labour specifically to build government public housing".

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Japan faces wage hurdle in bid to end deflation

A decade and a half after Japan slumped into deflation, the central bank is set to signal its strongest effort yet to reverse the trend. The biggest challenge may be that the nation has come to...

5:12AM

Work-cheap model hits Singapore inflation wall

When dozens of Chinese bus drivers held Singapore's first strike in 26 years last week, the island deported the perpetrators. Getting rid of the soaring prices that are emboldening calls for...

3:23AM

Salary growth slows in China

Mainland wage gains have moderated on weaker corporate profits, capping consumer demand as the government seeks to sustain a rebound after a seven-quarter economic slowdown.

4:21AM

City Digest

Plan to boost minimum and maximum MPF caps

12:27PM

City Digest

Teachers perform poorly in writing, speaking tests

10:52AM

Minimum wage law a step in the right direction

It's a landmark day for Hong Kong, land of the free market: the minimum wage law takes effect. Not that long ago, this wouldn't have seemed possible. Yet this Labour Day, the most fitting of...

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