Word: laboral
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...Became head of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in 1988, pioneering labor reform despite recommendations by both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that African governments cap spending, including wages...
...have lost their jobs as the global slowdown forces tens of thousands of factories to close. The response has been a government-led effort to prevent even more widespread losses. Last week, the central government's powerful State Council ordered companies throughout the country to notify local government-backed labor unions if they planned to cut either 10% of staff or more than 20 employees. The directive also urged companies to use any proceeds from China's $586 billion economic stimulus package to create as many jobs as possible...
...businesses avoid layoffs. The local government will also cover the expenses for job-training programs. "We want companies to avoid redundancy as much as possible, and as a government department, what we can do is to help them with favorable policies," says Ni Xuebin, deputy director of the Minhang Labor Department...
...better chance of stitching together a right-wing coalition with small religious groups and Yisrael Beitenu, a nationalist, anti-Arab party that was the surprise in this election. At the last poll, in 2006, Yisrael Beitenu won just 11 seats. Yesterday it won 15, knocking the venerable Labor Party, which picked up 13 seats, into fourth place...
...Livni's bid to become Israel's first female Premier since Golda Meir in the 1970s looks increasingly hopeless. Spurned by Netanyahu, she will turn left to Labor and other smaller parties - but the only way she can make the numbers add up to a 61-seat majority is if she entices Lieberman to join her. The drawback is that if she succeeds, Labor and the leftist parties will leave in disgust. The Arab parties, which have a total of 11 seats, are also unlikely to join a Livni-led coalition because they remain angry over the Gaza invasion. Israeli...