How is China’s success in Africa experienced by those who work on the Chinese-run construction sites that have emerged across the continent? In Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness (Hong Kong University …
Labour Relations Amendment Bill 2019 draconian? COTU vows to fight it ‘with every breath’
Is Labour Relations Amendment Bill 2019 draconian? COTU vows to fight it ‘with every breath’ Labour Relations Act (2007) Amendment Bill was introduced in Parliament on April 24, 2019 by …
CBP Issues Withhold Release Order on Tobacco from Malawi
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a withhold release order on tobacco from Malawi and products containing tobacco from Malawi. The products will be detained at all U.S. ports …
BAT faces landmark legal case over Malawi families’ poverty wages
Human rights lawyers are preparing to bring a landmark case against British American Tobacco on behalf of hundreds of children and their families forced by poverty wages to work in conditions …
LANDMARK AGREEMENT FOR KENYA’S INFORMAL WORKERS
Three trade unions representing Kenya’s formal-sector workers in food, health, education and metals signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with informal worker associations in their respective sectors yesterday. The agreements formalize …
NGOs file suit against Total over Uganda oil project
Six NGOs said Wednesday that they had filed a lawsuit against the French energy giant Total over an oil field project in Uganda, accusing it of failing to avert “disastrous …
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Issues Detention Orders against Companies Suspected of Using Forced Labor
WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued five Withhold Release Orders (WROs) covering five different products, imported from five different countries yesterday, September 30. This action was based on information obtained …
South Africa: ‘It is extremely irresponsible’: ‘New’ law has unions up in arms
Unions are up in arms over a statement by the Department of Labour that workers would have to conduct a secret ballot before going on strike. But Cosatu said this …
Men fear us’: Kampala’s market women unite against harassment
Some men are in the habit of touching women, says Nora Baguma, a vendor at Nakawa market, in Uganda’s capital Kampala. “We call them bayaye,” she says, sitting at her banana stall. …
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