Source: Qrius By Subramaniam Ananthram, Senior Lecturer, International Business, Curtin University and Christopher Chan, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada Can religion and spirituality promote ethical behaviour in the workplace? It’s […]
Source: BBC News Tomasz Frymorgen If you are young and unemployed, you’re more than twice as likely to report having poor mental health, a new UCL study has shown. In a […]
theguardian: by Julia Kollewe — ONS finds pronounced rise in women working past traditional retirement age, from 5.6% to 11.3% between 2012 and 2016 Many older workers say they are happy to continue in employment, but pension experts say women in particular have low levels of savings. Photograph: Getty The […]
theguardian: by David Batty — Sexism in the workplace and family responsibilities add to pressure as they face unequal pay and lack of support Dr Judith Mohring said women faced additional workplace pressures such as having to prove they were as good as men. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Women suffer […]
Source: BBC More than one in four UK business leaders say employees have cut their hours because of the “high cost of childcare”, a report from the British Chambers of […]
Source: The Local “We do not employ women who wear headscarves and do not understand why applicants would expect us to,” the rejection letter said, according to the woman’s lawyer.The woman, who is an experienced dental nurse, now intends to seek damages from the dentist in a labour court, Spiegel […]
Huff Post: by JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Hillary Scrivani — Associate Director, Human Rights in the U.S. Project at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute & Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law SchoolWomen in the United States have strived for, and achieved, equality in many areas, and have some freedoms that […]
Huff Post: by Emily Peck — It’s pretty obvious, but weirdly unacknowledged. President Barack Obama is proposing a cool solution to help close the gender pay gap, but it doesn’t hit at perhaps the biggest problem keeping women from earning what men make. That problem? Life. Women’s responsibilities outside of […]
Source: Yahoo News Clark Moffatt, 35, says he dreamed of a career in criminal justice when he graduated from San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2006. But since […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — A Muslim-Jewish organization in Germany held an interfaith rally last week to promote equal employment opportunities for people who wear religious head coverings. Their message? “My head, my choice.” Salaam-Shalom organized the July 14 demonstration in response to news that Betul Ulusoy, a Muslim law school […]
Source: The Guardian Thinktank report shows majority of 16 to 24-year-old UK Muslims disagree that ‘a husband’s job is to earn money, a wife’s is to look after the home […]
ScienceDaily — It may be beneficial for employers to not only encourage office Christmas parties but also celebrate holidays and festivals from a variety of religions, according to a Kansas State University researcher. Sooyeol Kim, doctoral student in psychological sciences, was involved in a collaborative study that found that employees […]
The 500-year-old mines of Bolivia’s Cerro Rico mountain produced the silver that once made the Spanish empire rich. Now riddled with tunnels, the mountain is a death trap for the men and boys who work there – and who pray to the devil to keep them safe. In a dingy […]
theguardian: by Ami Sedghi — Britain’s ethnic minorities still face significant barriers to social mobility despite many having better qualifications than their white counterparts, according to researchers at the University of Manchester. Chinese, Indian, Irish, Bangladeshi and black African students are now outperforming their white British peers in obtaining five […]
France 24: By News Wires (text) More people were jobless in France in June than ever before, data showed on Wednesday in a fresh blow to President Francois Hollande’s pledge to reverse the rising unemployment trend by year-end. The latest worsening of the job market, which came despite signs this month of […]
Source: The Daily Star By SUSHMITA S PREETHA Workers of Outwear Fashions Ltd take to the streets in Sheorapara in the capital demanding better pay and longer maternity leave. They blocked Rokeya Sarani and called on garment workers of other factories to join them. The workers of other factories, however, refused. […]
Source: The Local The Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, rejected the motion, which called for a 40-percent binding quota for women in supervisory and management boards of large companies within a decade. After an emotional debate, 320 lawmakers voted ‘no’, while 277 voted in favour, with one abstention. Five […]
Poor Would Be First to Barrel Over Fiscal Cliff Story tools New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Posted: Dec 27, 2012 LOS ANGELES–President Obama took much heat a year ago when he floated a series of proposed budget cuts that would have slashed programs for the poor. The cuts would have reduced funding […]
Mumbai has seen many historical events in the sphere of educational guidance and now it’s time for another one, Career Fest 2012, an effective way to bridge the gap between […]
Source: Indian Express It was a pleasant autumn morning on Saturday, a ‘half-day’ in school. But 40-odd primary school children were attending a “skill development lecture” after the last class that got over at 11 a.m. at Orient Public School, in Seelampur, a low-income, Muslim-majority neighbourhood in northeast Delhi. As […]