TAIPEI - Five foreign caretakers yesterday revealed abusive working conditions and harrowing treatment by their employer in Taipei County prompting human rights group to point to potential people trafficking-related violations, local media reported yesterday.
Tag - worker
mardi 20 octobre 2009
Vietnam caretakers treated like slave laborers
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 20 octobre 2009, 07:09 - News in english
mardi 29 septembre 2009
Vietnam's rising labour costs become a double whammy
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 29 septembre 2009, 07:08 - News in english
Vietnam's labour costs are rising, despite the continual economic downturn which has stunted employment across the nation.
lundi 14 septembre 2009
Foreigners not meeting working requirements in Vietnam will be expelled
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 14 septembre 2009, 08:40 - News in english
Minister of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has signed Official Letter No 3353/LDTBXH-VL to enhance the management of foreign workers in Vietnam.
lundi 6 juillet 2009
33,435 Vietnamese workers sent abroad in H1
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 6 juillet 2009, 08:53 - News in english
Vietnam during the first half of 2009 had sent 33,435 workers abroad, over 30 percent of the year's target but down 17 percent year-on-year, reported Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs' Overseas Labour Management Department.
lundi 8 juin 2009
Vietnam salaries cheapest in region for investors
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 8 juin 2009, 08:48 - News in english
Corporate spending on wages, land rent and power in Vietnam last year was lower than in other countries in the region, a Japanese trade report said.
samedi 6 juin 2009
Crisis Strands Vietnamese Workers in a Czech Limbo
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 6 juin 2009, 08:46 - News in english
PRAGUE — For Trieu Dinh Van, 25, the long journey two years ago from the rice paddies of northern Vietnam to a truck-welding factory in eastern Bohemia was supposed to provide an economic lifeline. Instead Mr. Van, the son of poor, peasant farmers, is jobless, homeless and heavily indebted in a faraway land.
mardi 21 avril 2009
Influx of illegal Chinese workers an open secret in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 21 avril 2009, 08:32 - News in english
Hanoi - Vietnamese officials Monday said rising numbers of Chinese workers in the country may be costing some Vietnamese jobs .
lundi 30 mars 2009
'Thousands' of Chinese workers heading to Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 30 mars 2009, 08:39 - News in english
HANOI — Chinese products and workers, rather than those from Vietnam, are being used for key industrial projects in the fast-developing country, a report quoted top officials as saying Saturday.
samedi 21 mars 2009
Vietnam govt sees up to 400,000 more jobless in '09
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 21 mars 2009, 07:59 - News in english
HANOI - Between 300,000 and 400,000 people will lose their jobs in Vietnam this year, and some 6,000 Vietnamese workers have been sent home from abroad due to the global slowdown, the labour minister said on Friday.
mercredi 11 mars 2009
Worker killed in Vietnam bridge collapse
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 11 mars 2009, 08:47 - News in english
Hanoi - One construction worker was killed and another seriously injured in Ho Chi Minh City when a span of the bridge they were building collapsed, a doctor said Wednesday.
jeudi 5 mars 2009
Vietnam's migrant workers return home as downturn bites
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 5 mars 2009, 20:26 - News in english
QUANG NGAI — Nguyen Van Ha's temporary lodgings are no bigger than a prison cell, his bed consists of wooden planks balanced on a few broken bricks and there is no electricity or running water.
mercredi 4 mars 2009
Vietnam expects 2009 job losses five times higher than last year
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 4 mars 2009, 20:17 - News in english
Hanoi - The global economic slowdown will cause job losses in Vietnam in 2009 up to five times higher than those in 2008, government officials said Monday.
dimanche 1 mars 2009
Vietnam's youth 'the future for growth'
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le dimanche 1 mars 2009, 08:24 - News in english
HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam's young and highly literate workforce is the country's best hope for riding out the global economic crisis and sustaining future growth, foreign business leaders say.
lundi 9 février 2009
Vietnam firms cut jobs as demand shrinks
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 9 février 2009, 07:43 - News in english
Hanoi - Panasonic Corp confirmed Friday that it was shedding jobs at its factories in Vietnam, joining a raft of companies laying off workers there as the economy slows. Panasonic Vietnam general director Shinya Abe said the company had offered workers at its plant outside Hanoi a "voluntary resignation plan" at the end of January but did not yet know how many would accept the offer.
mercredi 14 janvier 2009
Workers in Vietnam strike for Tet bonus
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 14 janvier 2009, 21:03 - News in english
HANOI - More than 800 workers at a Taiwanese garment factory in southern Vietnam have gone on strike to protest at a delay in the payment of their salaries and Lunar New Year bonuses, a state-run newspaper reported on Wednesday.
samedi 10 janvier 2009
Vietnam hit by 762 strikes in 2008
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 10 janvier 2009, 14:39 - News in english
Vietnam was hit by a record 762 labour strikes last year, many of them in textile and footwear plants, as workers struggled with costs amid spiralling inflation, a labour union official said Thursday.
mercredi 7 janvier 2009
Vietnam has over 1m unemployed
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 7 janvier 2009, 08:49 - News in english
The General Statistical Office (GSO) has announced the latest number of unemployed in the country at over one million, Dong Ba Huong, director of the GSO's Population and Labour Statistics Department, told the Daily Saturday.
mardi 6 janvier 2009
300,000 to lose Job In Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 6 janvier 2009, 08:52 - News in english
HANOI - The decrease in Vietnam's growth rate this year could entail a loss of 300,000 jobs or 0.65% of the labour force, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).
dimanche 4 janvier 2009
Vietnam workers strike over alleged abuses
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le dimanche 4 janvier 2009, 11:07 - News in english
HANOI — Nearly 4,000 workers at a Taiwanese footwear plant in Vietnam have gone on strike to protest alleged ill-treatment by their bosses, state media reported Sunday.
vendredi 2 janvier 2009
Vietnam reports sharp increase in wildcat strikes in 2008
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 2 janvier 2009, 09:02 - News in english
Hanoi - The number of wildcat strikes in Vietnam has increased sharply compared with last year, a government official said Tuesday. "This year, we have seen about a 30-per-cent increase in wildcat strikes compared with last year," said Pham Minh Huan, Director of the Salary Policy Department of the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
Nine new rules take effect from January 1, 2009
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 2 janvier 2009, 08:56 - News in english
New regulations such as unemployment insurance policy, 10 kinds of earnings subject to PIT, cost reduction for fixed telephones, opening of Vietnamese retail market and others took effect from the first day of 2009.
lundi 29 décembre 2008
Cambodia faces problems enforced new sex trafficking law
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 29 décembre 2008, 09:10 - News in english
PHNOM PENH — Chantha said there was nothing else she could do in Cambodia but become a prostitute. "If you don't even have a dollar in your pocket to buy rice, how can you bear looking at your starving relatives?" she said.
mardi 9 décembre 2008
Vietnam sends officials to Qatar over work-visa ban
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 9 décembre 2008, 21:19 - News in english
HANOI — Vietnamese officials have travelled to Qatar to discuss a reported ban on new migrant labourers from their country because of crime among some Vietnamese in the Gulf state, an official said Tuesday.
lundi 8 décembre 2008
Strike in central province continues
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 8 décembre 2008, 08:35 - News in english
The wildcat strike of more than 200 workers from a company in the central Quang Ngai Province escalated Thursday.
mardi 18 novembre 2008
Russia – a potential labour export market for Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 18 novembre 2008, 09:00 - News in english
Forty-eight Vietnamese nationals have just arrived in the Russian city of Ekateriburg to work under a contract signed between Sitmontaz factory and Song Da SIMCO joint stock company.
samedi 15 novembre 2008
Vietnam warns Korean firms on labour violations
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 15 novembre 2008, 09:04 - News in english
Hanoi - Vietnamese authorities have warned South Korean firms to cease violating labour laws if they want to continue their Vietnamese operations, a senior government official said Thursday.
lundi 3 novembre 2008
South Korean firm shuts owing payments to Vietnamese workers
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 3 novembre 2008, 08:40 - News in english
A South Korean firm in HCM City shut down Thursday without prior notice, leaving 440 workers high and dry.
jeudi 30 octobre 2008
Vietnamese female workers need more maternity leave
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 30 octobre 2008, 08:58 - News in english
HO CHI MINH City - A survey done at 34 textile and garment, leather-shoe, seafood processing and other factories in 10 provinces has shown that labour policies for women workers are impractical, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported Thursday.
dimanche 19 octobre 2008
On Vietnam factory floor, worries grow about global downturn
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le dimanche 19 octobre 2008, 17:15 - News in english
VAN LAM — The whirr of 200 sewing machines fills a Vietnamese factory hall, where workers and bosses hope desperately that the wheels will keep spinning once the global downturn hits home.
samedi 13 septembre 2008
Vietnam garment workers strike for better pay, food allowance
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 13 septembre 2008, 09:51 - News in english
HANOI - Some 2,000 workers at two foreign-owned companies have gone on strike, demanding better pay and allowances, company and union officials said Friday. More than 1,400 workers at Valley View Vietnam, a Taiwanese-owned garment company based in the central city of Danang, have been on strike since Thursday, demanding a monthly petrol allowance of 100,000 dong (6 dollars) and an increase in their daily meal allowance.
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