Tag: Employment and Work
France: the fight of a restaurateur to regularize his employee
The immigration bill arrives at the National Assembly this Monday. There will be a question of regularization of workers in sectors in tension. It was at the “Epifani” restaurant that…
in the United Kingdom, the government blocks access to migrants
Reducing immigration, legal and illegal: this is one of the major objectives of Rishi Sunak’s British government, with elections due to be held next year. New Home Secretary James Cleverly…
Modern slavery: “The urgency is to regulate the activity of economic powers”
December 2 is World Day for the Abolition of Slavery. How are the consequences of forced labor reflected in the daily lives of so-called developed societies? The World Labor Organization…
The Kodiko program to facilitate the integration of refugees into the job market
In France, the unemployment rate for people with refugee status is 34%, according to the government study Elipa 2, compared to 7% for the rest of the population. To reduce…
strike by state employees demanding better working conditions
More than 400,000 state employees in Quebec, negotiating a new collective agreement, have started a strike that could last several days. Administrative and support staff at hospitals and schools, as…
anger around a large subsidy for hosting an American hockey team
Last week, the Quebec government decided to offer $5 million to the Los Angeles Kings team of the National Hockey League to come and play preseason games next year in…
Tesla workers’ strike movement gains momentum
In Sweden, Tesla employees are on strike to denounce the American car manufacturer’s refusal to sign a collective agreement on wages. A social conflict of rare harshness in a country…
Hundreds of textile factories shut down in Bangladesh
According to a Bangladeshi union official, many factories producing for major global clothing groups are at a standstill in the country due to violent demonstrations by thousands of workers demanding…
“I have never suffered like this”: exploited workers in Champagne, they demand compensation
According to the Group of European Experts on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA), labor exploitation has increased in all EU member countries, driven by poverty, unemployment and of a…
unions disappointed by conference on wages
In France, six months after the battle over pension reform and in the midst of inflation, the government is trying to renew social dialogue. At the call of Matignon, a…