The International Labour Organization (ILO) today released a report that says global wage growth last year fell to its lowest rate since 2008, far below the levels before the global financial crisis. . ..…
Hasina’s Awami League government has negotiated hard on lowering interest rates and on keeping out Chinese labour and even cancelled a deep seaport project at Sonadia islands — the latter, some said, to avoid upsetting India. ..…
Clement Attlee, who served as Winston Churchill’s deputy during the war and then went on to lead the post-war Labour government, was recently revealed to have sponsored a Jewish family to come to Britain in 1939, and taken in one of the sons for a number of months. . ..…
Tory backbenchers said it was 'dead as a dodo' and a 'huge gamble' for the country, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it amounted to an “act of national self-harm”. . ... Labour leader Mr Corbyn told the Commons: “It is not in the national interest for the Prime Minister to..…
It is yet more evidence that the unpaid labour women do – running households, caring for partners and children, tending to parents and grandchildren – is a burden that adds up over a lifetime, both for women and society. ..…
With this in mind we are invited by Jeremy to look at the actions of other family members including his Piers Corbyn strong advocate for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn leadership and someone. ..…
For example, early-set educational disadvantages represent the obstacle to universal schooling and the right to education for girls down the line they are also to blame for restricting access to education and even translate into limited opportunities for in the labour market.. ..…
far from aiding Tamil cause, the coalition's draft version of law called Counter Terrorism Act has expanded the definition of terrorism, to further suppress and criminalise labour and demonstrations addition to targeting militant trade unionists, student protests and any activity by oppressed..…
One small supermarket owner is so worried about the Government’s labour law changes that instead of hiring seven staff, he’s putting in four new self-scanning machines and hiring just three people. . ..…
National Leader Simon Bridges says there will be no Capital Gains Tax under National Government, it would repeal CGT if put in place by Labour-led Government and there would not be any new taxes in its first term.. ..…
I explained why having more babies is not the best solution to China’s population challenges (including a rapidly ageing population), nor its economic ones (including slowing GDP and labour force growth). ..…
If it chooses to, Thailand will be the migrant labour-receiving country to take ASEAN.. ... Thai government wants to announce the free from forced labour at the beginning of 2019. ..…
And third, on labour and the environment, the Government doled out symbolic protections, but by and large, capital always had the upper hand. . ... The tragedy in Tuticorin—where companies can literally poison the earth and water, get away with it, and then demand protection from labour..…
Stephen Kinnock is Labour MP for Aberavon . . . The house share This . . . ..…
Rushanara Ali is Labour Bethnal Green & Bow, and Anne Main is Conservative MP for St Albans, and are joint chairs of Rohingya APPG... ..…
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