Australia jobs engine slows as labour market loosens
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian employment fell sharply in December after two months of surprisingly strong growth, while the jobless rate stayed at a 1-1/2 year high, adding to the…
UK labour market firms after recent slowdown: REC survey
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – British employers raised pay and recovered some of their appetite for hiring in December, according to a survey that the Bank of England may see as…
Factbox-Tesla labour dispute sparks Nordic sympathy strikes
(Reuters) -A labour dispute between Tesla and Swedish trade union IF Metall has drawn in a host of unions across the Nordic region, all urging the automaker to sign a collective bargaining…
Marketmind: UK labour data takes the stage before US inflation
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee UK labour market data on Tuesday will take centre stage as Europe wakes up, with traders trying to…
UK regulator raises concerns about labour data quality
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s statistics regulator raised concerns on Tuesday about the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) approach to calculating unemployment and other key labour market data, following a big drop in…
BMW says it is looking into Morocco labour, environment issues after newspaper report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German carmaker BMW said on Sunday it is seeking clarity on operations at a Moroccan cobalt mine following a newspaper report citing irregularities that breach labour and environmental laws.…
Japan’s largest labour union to seek wage hike over 5% next year – NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s largest labour organisation Rengo is planning to ask for a total pay hike of more than 5%, including a 3% increase in base salaries, at negotiations in spring next…
Euro zone labour market shows no sign of weakening: Lagarde
MARRAKECH (Reuters) – The euro zone labour market shows no sign of softening, despite a near recessionary environment and a record string of interest rate hikes, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine…
New Zealand election campaign winds down with Labour facing defeat
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins on Friday urged voters to get out and re-elect Labour in Saturday’s national election, as polls indicate a change in…
UK’s Labour vows to ‘rebuild Britain’ and offer stability
By Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Labour’s finance policy chief Rachel Reeves promised on Monday to “rebuild Britain” if in government, vowing to deploy “iron-clad” fiscal rules,…
Malaysia says it penalised 400 companies this year for labour offences
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has taken action against 400 companies so far this year for violating labour laws, state news agency Bernama reported, citing Human Resources Minister V. Sivakumar. The ministry’s labour…
Explainer-What can Australia’s labour tribunal do in Chevron’s dispute with LNG workers?
By Lewis Jackson and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Chevron has asked Australia’s Fair Work Commission (FWC) to intervene in its dispute with workers on strike at two major liquefied natural gas…
Russian jobless rate hits new record low in strained labour market
(Reuters) – Russian unemployment hit a new record low in June and real wages rose by 10.5% year on year in further evidence of a tight labour market, data released on Wednesday…
UK opposition Labour leader says still a long way to win power
LONDON (Reuters) – The failure of Britain’s Labour Party to take former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s old parliamentary seat in an election this week shows the opposition party still has a long…
BoE’s Bailey says data show labour market ‘very tight’
LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Tuesday that official data published earlier in the day showed the labour market was “very tight”, and added that inflation had been…
Russian labour shortage laid bare as unemployment drops to record low
By Alexander Marrow and Darya Korsunskaya (Reuters) – Russia’s unemployment rate dropped to a record low 3.3% in April, data showed on Wednesday, highlighting the labour shortage that is stifling economic growth,…
Informal labour accounts for two-thirds of Morocco jobs – stats agency
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Two thirds of Moroccan jobs are now in the grey economy, statistics agency said on Tuesday, giving its first public assessment of a trend that the…
Learn by doing, German renewables companies bid to beat labour shortage
By Maria Martinez and Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – German wind power developer SL Naturenergie has been looking for a senior project developer for two years now without success. The company, in…
Japan labour confederation Rengo seeks wage hikes beyond 2023
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – The head of Japan’s largest trade union confederation on Tuesday called for further wage rises beyond next year, arguing that this year’s wage hikes were inadequate…
S.Korean labour minister defends longer work week as helpful for mothers
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s labour minister said on Thursday that lifting the weekly work hour cap to 69 hours from 52 will give working mothers more choice and help them raise…
British labour market, and pay growth, slow in February – REC
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s labour market showed further signs of cooling as permanent job placements fell for the fifth month in a row in February and pay growth slowed,…
Forced labour victims protest in wheelchairs, reject S.Korea deal on Japan
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – Two elderly South Korean victims of wartime forced labour took to the streets in wheelchairs on Tuesday, saying they rejected a compensation deal announced this week,…
UN committee urges China to dismantle forced labour systems
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. committee said on Monday it was concerned about China’s treatment of its Muslim minority, including the use of forced labour against Uyghurs, in a…
South Korea, Japan near landmark deal on wartime labour dispute – media
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – South Korea and Japan may be near resolving a dispute over colonial-era forced labour that has overshadowed political and trade relations between the two neighbours, with media reports saying…
Davos 2023: Talent shortage rules in tight labour markets-ManpowerGroup
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Talent shortages in key sectors are likely to remain a feature of Western economies left with persistently tight labour markets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, global…
Germany falls to bottom rung of investment ranking on energy costs, labour shortage
(Reuters) – Germany’s attractiveness as an investment location has fallen four places to 18th of 21 in a ranking of industrial economies by economic research institute ZEW, newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine reported on…
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