Word: labors
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Worse for Hamas, Israel has again decided to close its borders to Palestinian laborers, causing hardship for tens of thousands of families. In the aftermath of the first bombings, Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres lost his 15-point advantage in the polls over the opposition Likud's chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. The fallout from the most recent blast will further erode Peres' position. With elections scheduled for May 29, the government must appear firm. The borders may remain closed for months...
...COMMONS was hushed as Seamus Mallon rose to speak. "This," he proclaimed, "is the moment of truth for all paramilitary groupings. They have to make a choice: Will they join together in making peace, or will they isolate themselves?" Coming from Mallon, deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, which speaks for the majority of Catholics in Northern Ireland, it was a challenge the Irish Republican Army could ill afford to ignore...
Burma (also known as Myanmar) has one of the worst human rights records in the world. Although the most prominent dissident, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been freed, pro-democracy leaders continue to be imprisoned. Forced labor and forced relocations are commonplace; often whole villages are destroyed to make way for new development or the American-sponsored oil pipeline. Extrajudicial executions, torture, rape and forced prostitution are regularly practiced by the armed forces. During one incident last month, 11 villagers were killed, two women were stripped and tortured and three people were arrested...
PepsiCo may also be contributing to forced labor; in order to convert its worthless Burmese revenue into hard currency, PepsiCo buys agricultural goods in Burma and sells them on the international market. These goods may be the products of forced labor farms that are common in Burma, but PepsiCo will not acknowledge its sources. Other companies have pulled out of Burma by now; Levi-Strauss, for example, pulled out in 1992, saying that "it is not possible to do business in [Burma] without directly supporting the military government and its pervasive violations of human rights...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Labor Secretary Robert Reich announced that employers who have abused their access to workers' 401(k) plans have until September 6th to return the funds or face prosecution. "As cops on the beat, our goal is not to collect fines," Reich said. "Our goal is to get workers the money that's owed them as quickly as possible." Reich's pragmatic approach, said TIME's Bernard Baumohl, is most likely due to the prohibitive legal costs of pursuing errant employers. "Companies have now been given due warning and a grace period to replenish the 401(k)," said Baumohl...