Over 600 million worldwide work excessive hours: ILO
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More than 600 million people worldwide work excessively long hours, with Peruvians topping the list and Britons the worst offenders amongst rich nations, the International Labour Organisation reported on Thursday.
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Telecommunications network vendor Global Crossing cut its workforce by 600 workers, or about 15% of its global employees, as it continues to right itself about a year after emerging from bankruptcy.
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Nearly all browse for six hours a week Almost 90 per cent of home internet users in the UK now spend six hours or more online each week, according to new research.â¦
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The US worker is still the world's most productive but workers in East Asia are catching up fast.
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A resolution challenge aimed at people empowered to change the punishing pace of the working world.
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A new report from the Canadian Medical Association on Canada&#39;s doctor shortage suggests that Canada would need 4700 new doctors if the doctors who currently work over 60 hours a week stopped doing so. The report also suggest that if Canada followed the EU ...
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That's some contention ratio Over 200 million people worldwide use DSL technology to access the internet, according to figures released yesterday at Broadband World Forum Asia in Beijing.â¦
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According to Al-Yaum newspaper (December 12, 2006), a recent study by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry estimated at 153,000 the total number of the employed workers in the operating petrochemicals manufacturing companies in the Arabian Gulf States.
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Geneva - Worldwide sales of industrial robots surged to record levels in the first half of 2004 after equipment prices fell while labour costs grew, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe said in a report to be released today.
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Labor unions say 6 million workers could lose overtime pay when a redefinition of overtime regulations â-he most sweeping change to wage-and-hour laws in half a century â -es effect tomorrow.
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Labor protests in the high-tech industry are rare, but IBM is in midst of one -- and it&#39;s unfolding entirely online. Instead of waving protest signs outside the company gates, affected workers are airing, in comments accompanying an online petition, disappointment, anger, and bitterness with the company over a salary cut&#160; IBM&#39;s U.S. workforce.Since its announcement last month, more than 1,200 people have signed a petition sponsored by the Alliance@IBM, protesting pay cuts to 7,600 technical support employees.. Whether all these signatures are from affected employees is not certain, but many of the comments seem authentic, and often heartfelt.Comments such as &quot;11 years on call ... Now less money than when in started in 97,&quot; &quot;Previous loyal employee ... No more,&quot; and &quot;This is not fair. I did not deserve this after all my hard work,&quot; are typical.This change in how technical support workers are paid stems from a federal class action lawsuit filed by some employees in early 2006. In it, the workers complained they were not getting paid overtime after a 40-hour work week and they sought back pay. IBM settled the case that same year for $65 million.Last month, IBM told workers that it was reclassifying technical services and IT specialist jobs to nonexempt positions, making them eligible for overtime. But the company said it was also making a 15% base salary adjustment -- down.Overtime pay, as a well as a transition payment to help where overtime doesn&#39;t meet the base pay adjustment, will offset this pay cut according to the company. The company characterized the change as a &quot;pay remix&quot; in a series of slides to managers that was subsequently leaked. But not all the employees will be able to offset the pay cut with overtime, according to information sent to managers; about one third of the affected employees are working on average less than 45 hours a week, the apparent salary parity threshold.IBM spokesman Fred McNeese said that were IBM to pay overtime on top of salaries that were already competitive with the industry, the company would be uncompetitive. McNeese&#39;s point is listed as a key one in the slides sent to managers. &quot;Adding overtime compensation to already competitive pay would quickly produce costs that exceed competitive levels -- an undesirable result for employees and our clients.&quot;McNeese believes that overall compensation for employees after the change &quot;should be the same.&quot;Two affected employees, who spoke on the condition that their names not be used, disagreed that their pay would be similar. They argued that overtime was far from certain, required managerial approval, and opportunities for it could vary depending on business. Moreover, the cut in base pay affected those aspects of compensation calculated on base salary alone, such as insurance and disability. They also argued that it could affect personal areas, such as ability to qualify at a certain mortgage amount. One employee said that it rolls back his salary to what he earned in 2001.The employees were also skeptical of the company&#39;s assertion that this change wasn&#39;t put in place to cut overall costs, and there are suspicions that wage pressure from offshore centers may be at work -- something IBM denies. &quot;As far as I am concerned, they are going to save money,&quot; said one employee.Lee Conrad, a former IBM employee who is now national coordinator of the Alliance@IBM in Endicott, NY, said he believes globalization may be a factor in the pay cut decision and suspects other companies will be looking at how IBM manages the pay cut. &quot;If IBM is an indication of what&#39;s ahead, it&#39;s going to be a rough ride for American workers,&quot; he said.The union, which is part of the Communications Workers of America, represents about 6,000 of IBM&#39;s total U.S. workforce of 125,000. It would need at least 60 percent membership to have bargaining power with the company, said Conrad.Conrad said he been impressed by the outspoken reaction of IBM employees. &quot;For IBMers to sign their name publicly to a petition -- that says a lot,&quot; he said.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.&#160;
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Studies worldwide suggest employees spend about a fifth of their work shifts engaging in personal activities, with the favorite time wasters including surfing the Web and sending personal e-mail messages.
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WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of workers rallied on the steps of the Labor Department yesterday to protest the implementation of new rules they say will cause as many as 6 million Americans to lose their overtime pay. But the Bush administration officials who crafted the complex regulations insisted more workers will actually qualify for extra pay under the plan, which almost ...
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A crotchety boss might say that weâre working longer because weâre wasting time, but the opposite may also be true. We are wasting time because we are working harder.
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Migrant workers around the world need more protection when conflict breaks out, a key international organisation says.
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Low-paid Chinese workers said to work 15-hour days as IOC urged to respect employees' rights.
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The search queries of some 600,000 users were posted online, and some can be traced back to people.