People with disabilities have protested outside Romania's labor ministry against a measure they say could leave them jobless. About 200 protesters — some in wheelchairs, others with crutches — carried banners Tuesday in Bucharest saying "We want to work, not beg!" They were angry at a ...
Companies in Japan are becoming more active in hiring people with mental health issues as they prepare for a legal change on employing people with disabilities that takes effect next spring. Measures to assist such workers include setting up a support division with a licensed ...
Taiwan has long seen its international allies switching allegiance to an ascendant Beijing, but now there are also fears of a brain drain of the island's youth as they pursue careers in rival China. Cross-strait tensions have soared since China-skeptic Tsai Ing-wen took power last ...
Medical advances are enabling more cancer patients to return to work after treatment, but not without difficulties. Many face pay cuts and struggle to cover medical bills or living costs, according to a recent survey of working cancer patients by Lifenet Insurance Co. Conducted in ...
It must have been in 2007 or 2008, during my graduate studies at a business school in Helsinki, Finland. I was sitting in a classroom with 30 fellow students when one of them asked us to raise our hands if we were considering a ...
Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds — 1,500 a minute, to be exact — on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo. Nary a soul ...
The honeymoon is definitely over. In June, optimism among American CEOs was at a three-year high on hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump would succeed in implementing his pro-growth agenda, including tax cuts. But this week, Trump has lost support from four executives who left an ...
Inside a fenced construction site on Detroit's east side, heavy machines are digging, shoving and hauling away tons of dirt in preparations for the latest addition to the city's industrial landscape. Auto parts supplier Flex-N-Gate is expected to bring 750 jobs to Detroit when it ...
A Melbourne cafe went viral on social media this week after introducing an 18 percent "man tax" to raise awareness of Australia's gender pay gap. The gender surcharge at the Handsome Her cafe is optional and the proceeds are donated to a women's charity, cafe ...
An estimated 200,000 protesters brought India's financial capital Mumbai to a halt Wednesday as they demanded set quotas for government jobs and colleges amid unemployment and reduced farm incomes. Many businesses in the southern part of Mumbai were closed and traffic was diverted as the ...
Rising labor costs are casting shadows over Japanese businesses amid escalating manpower shortages. According to a labor ministry survey for June released late last week, the average hourly pay of part-time workers rose 3.1 percent from a year earlier, up for the 64th straight month. With ...
Hundreds of people showed up Wednesday for a chance to pack and ship products to Amazon customers, as the e-commerce company held a giant job fair at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. Though it's common for Amazon to ramp up its shipping center staff in ...
