Employment - Page 3
Kenya exposed: Child labour revelation
As a participant to the international conventions against the Child Labour, Kenya’s alarming employment under aged children has been exposed to the international labour...
Solar energy resource in Senegal most ideal
Following the escalation of fuel prices, the Senegalese government has sought to invest in solar energy production.
According to the UN, and the national electricity...
Unemployed university students to get monthly allowances
The Botswana Government has undertaken a bold move by pledging to pay monthly allowances for all unemployed university graduates effect from January next year.
The...
EU to create job search centre in Africa to stop illegal migration
The European Union has moved to reduce illegal migration of Africans to Europe in search of jobs. The EU hopes to create a job...
Fears of further unemployment cautioned in Botswana
Speaking at a workshop on decent work, Professor Happy Siphambe of the University of Botswana has suggested that to create employment in Botswana will...
Nigerian ministers in panick mode as cabinet shake-up begins
Ministers have their hearts in their mouths as President Umaru Yar'adua prepares to announce the names of ministers to be sacked in what is...
Industrial fears as Gaslink plans gas price rise in Nigeria
More than 120 manufacturing companies in Nigeria could fold up and about 60,000 workers thrown out of job if Gaslink Nigeria Limited executes its...
Six month salary freeze after 10 zero currency knock-off
Zimbabwe's central bank chief has urged a six-month price and salary freeze in a bid to rein in runaway inflation, with the country in...
South Africa seeks over 4,000 foreign doctors
With more South African doctors now working abroad than in the country's ailing public health sector, the government needs to start aggressively recruiting health...
Foreign footballers in South Africa face precarity as COSAFA enters knockout stage
African soccer players based in South Africa who have been offloaded by South African Clubs could be deported if they fail to find new...
Few remaining employees in Zimbabwe stuck at home as prices sky rocket
As the economic situation continues to worsen in Zimbabwe most civil
servants have stopped going to work as they have run out money for
transport.
AS the...
McCain’s plan to woo Obama supporters backfires
Three hours after John McCain’s campaign bus left General Motors’ plant in Lordstown, Ohio, workers started streaming in and out of the factory’s gates...
Morocco records employment success but youth remain skeptic
The Moroccan government this week announced a decline in unemployment rates from 13.9% in 1999 to 9.8% in 2007 and 9.6% during the first...
Incidents in Sidi Ifni raise concern
Human rights organisations and NGOs, including"The Amazigh league of human rights”, are appealing for a serious dialogue between the Moroccan government and unemployed...
French manager gets the boot from The Gambia for abuse
Gambia’s five-star Atlantic Hotel General Manager has been deported to his native country, France, by the Gambia Immigrant Department, sources confirmed.
According to the sources,...
15th Century Florence, Apartheid and Xenophobia
The historical Bonfires of the Vanities were curious affairs, in which the more of one's wealth one destroyed in the ritual fire, the higher...
Continued xenophobic frenzy in Jo’burg will shame Africa day
More than a week after parts of Johannesburg erupted in xenophobic rage, there are no signs that the violence, which has now claimed 30...
South Africa : Two immigrants killed in Jo’burg xenophobic attacks
Tensions are running high in Johannesburg, South Africa, after a series of attacks on immigrants in Alexandra township north of the city.
Police said two...
Shell Nigeria warned by unions over planned massive lay-off
The umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Nigerian subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell against the reported plan to sack 3,500...
Mauritius reviews retirement age
Mauritius prime minister, Navin Ramgoolam, announced on Monday that the retirement age for salaried workers would soon be extended from 60 to 65 years...
No pay raise for disappointed Kenyans
Kenyan workers walked out of a Labour Day celebration disgusted Thursday after President Mwai Kibaki failed to announce a much-anticipated pay raise for them.
The...
Africa warned against stop-gap measures by ILO chief
Africa should avoid looking for stop-gap solutions to emerging economic crises, as doing so would only take the continent back to the same difficult...
Morocco : Gov’t and Labor unions negotiate
This week the Moroccan government and labor unions began a second round of negotiations. The main subjects of concern included the decrease of income...
The Gambia : Foreign jobs bill reviewed
The Gambian National Assembly on Monday passed a bill restricting the categories and number of non-citizens who can be employed by private firms operating...
Cameroonians get pay rise
The 15 per cent salary increase announced by the Cameroonian government after last February's riots will come into force in April 2008, according to...