US President Biden's Visit to the UAW Strike Would Be a Historic Event

If Joe Biden accepts the United Auto Workers' invitation to visit their picket line, it would be the first time in more than a century that the U.S. President has shown support for union workers in a labor dispute, according to a presidential historian.

Friday, the UAW invited Vice ...

Maha Vikas Aghadi is planning to foil a plot involving a third front in order to win over new allies.

Even though NCP leader Sharad Pawar keeps galleries guessing and confused on his political relationship with his nephew Ajit Pawar, it is learned that he and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena are prepared to make a regional front of 13 smaller parties into allies of the Maha Vikas Aghadi. This w...

At least 17 people were murdered when a bridge under construction collapsed in northeast India

The collapse of a bridge that was under construction in northeast India on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen workers. This tragedy is the most recent in a series of infrastructure catastrophes that have resulted in several deaths throughout the country.

According to ...

The trade union BMS is worried about how badly foreign workers' rights are being violated in Qatar.

The biggest central trade union in India, the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), is worried about how migrant workers' human rights are being violated in Qatar.

BMS said that it is "deeply concerned" by the fact that migrant workers' rights, especially those of Indians, ar...

The Ministry of Health and Welfare's Action Plan for 2023

Sort through the socially disadvantaged and provide appropriate assistance, all while vigorously responding to new welfare demands. Add new indicators for warning indications of crisis (from 39 to 44 categories) to accurately discover homes in crisis; such data include records of help for catastr...

University personnel in the United Kingdom, Scottish teachers, and postal workers in Scotland have begun walkouts

Postal workers, teachers, and university employees throughout the United Kingdom went on strike on Thursday to demand higher pay, with fears that further industrial action and significant disruption are on the way in the run-up to Christmas.

More than 70,000 employees at British univers...

AAP MLA thrashed by party workers on camera, BJP responds

A video of AAP MLA Gulab Singh Yadav being pursued and beaten up by multiple party activists leaked on social media before of the Delhi civic body poll.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi posted a supposed video of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Gulab Singh Yadav being pursued and bea...

While the strike at some Total Energies refineries in France continues, workers at another plant in the country have ended their walkout

Total Energies workers in France decided on Wednesday to end their strike, giving the government reason to believe that gas station shortages will soon ease.

The CGT union leader told Reuters that the strike was still going on at the Dunkirk petroleum storage site and the La Mede, Feyzi...

As widespread strikes loom in France, the government has ordered more fuel depot workers back to work.

France's government and unions were still at an impasse on Monday over the shutdown of oil depots, which has led to widespread fuel shortages and threatened to disrupt the country's transportation network.

Major unions have called for strikes on Tuesday, posing the most serious ...

Filling one of these skill gaps will make moving to Germany simpler.

Germany is streamlining its immigration process to attract highly trained international workers.

The government is "on the lookout for people who fancy coming to Germany to bring in their talents, experience and passions," according to Robert Habeck, minister of economics and ...

AMA Needs Fresh Focus

By no stretch of the imagination is the Australian Medical Association the first organisation that springs to mind when we think of labour unions; rather, we think of the United Food and Commercial Workers. This organisation, which has been around since 1962 and originated from what were then sta...

Older Workers in Singapore Face Many Challenges But Play a Significant Role in Workplaces

According to a recent survey in Singapore that polled 172 employees above the age of 60, some older workers are having a tough time adjusting to the new technologies and work processes, whereas others are being able to put in the long hours because of personal or health issues. Some older workers...

A new law tries to address the mental health issue among healthcare workers, but there are still obstacles to care

In two years, a lot can happen. It's difficult to imagine life before we had to deal with a global pandemic that affected everything, both literally and emotionally.

That transformation came quickly for our family. Dr Lorna Breen, an excellent NYC emergency room physician who worked...

VPS athletic event attracts almost 2,000 healthcare workers

The Ramadan Sports Tournament, held after a two-year hiatus, is one of the most important athletic events in the UAE's healthcare industry.

As life in the UAE returns to normal, more than 2,000 healthcare professionals who assisted in the containment of the Covid-19 outbreak are hav...

ASEAN's tech talent retention issues are coming

A poll indicated that less than a third of IT workers in Southeast Asia expect to stay in their present employment this year, despite the region's tight labour market for technical expertise.

According to the most recent Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT compensation poll, only 28% of r...

Zinus to Provide the First Ever Fully Electric Ferry Service to Shell Workers Worldwide

A contract has been secured by Zinus, a Norway-based shore power products and autonomous solutions supplier for ports and vessels, with the Penguin Shipyard International in Singapore that promised that a fully automatic charging solution would be delivered to three electric passenger catamarans ...

Singapore Defers Medical Screening for Foreign Female Workers to Ease the Pressure on Healthcare Providers

On Wednesday 2nd March, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower announced the deferring of the medical screening of foreign female work permit holders in order to ease the load of patients and pressure that the healthcare providers in the country have to face particularly the general practitioner ...

The petrochemical sector requires a "fair transition" to the green economy, according to the Workers' Party

Given Singapore's extensive ties to the "brown" economy, managing the country's green transition, particularly in the petrochemicals industry, would be critical, said Workers' Party MP Dennis Tan on March 1, the second day of Parliament's Budget discussion.

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Nurses and volunteers are needed due to a scarcity of healthcare workers as of the rise in Covid-19 cases

The Ministry of Health has asked the Singapore Healthcare Corps for assistance in supporting Covid-19 activities. - ANN/The Straits Times

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN), February 20: With the spike of Covid-19 cases, hospitals and community care institutions are in desperate need of ...

10 Percent of Australian Healthcare Workers Considered Suicide or Self-harm During the Pandemic

The pandemic undoubtedly strained the healthcare systems around the world beyond their capacity. New research shows that one in every ten healthcare workers in Australia considered self-harm or even suicide during the crisis presented in the last two years.

Less than half of this figure...