The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour & Social Affairs announced it is cancelling its permanent committee charged with labour recruitment and replacing it with an electronic system, starting next year.
They left India for Saudi Arabia with big dreams, but have returned with only harrowing tales after an oil price slump threw the economy into turmoil, leaving thousands of poor migrant labourers stranded.
A Chinese court has given suspended prison sentences to three prominent labour activists, citing their involvement with ‘overseas organisations hostile to China’, an official said Tuesday.
At least fifteen people have been killed and 70 injured, many critically, in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi packaging factory, officials said Saturday.
German auto giant Volkswagen said on Monday it would halt production at six plants for several days as a legal dispute with two key suppliers deepened.
India said Monday it is negotiating with authorities in Saudi Arabia to repatriate thousands of migrant workers after they lost their jobs, leaving them destitute and with no money to return home.
A second British Labour opposition lawmaker entered the contest to topple leader Jeremy Corbyn, boosting the veteran left-winger's chances of being re-elected by splitting the support of those who oppose him.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Tuesday in the latest protest march in a marathon campaign against the French Socialist government's job market reforms.
Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faced a revolt on Sunday over his handling of Britain's EU referendum as seven members of his top team resigned and others seemed set to follow.
Workers at nuclear power stations in France were set to go on strike Thursday, joining a growing protest movement against controversial labour market reforms ...
France's government stepped up efforts Tuesday to break blockades and strikes at refineries that are threatening to paralyse the country just three weeks ahead of the Euro 2016 football tournament.
As many as 50 recruitment agencies based in Qatar have pledged to engage in “responsible recruitment and placement” of migrant workers, an official of the Philippine Overseas Labour Office ...
