The Director of the International Labour Standards Department at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Madam Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, has disclosed that the much-anticipated Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC, 2006) would be implemented in 2011, after the ratification of the 30 states,

The public university system, comprising over 53 federal and state universities that were shut for more than three months, bounced back to academic activities when the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) finally signed an agreement both

A pilot scheme offering internships to those with learning difficulties to help them find employment has been launched by the government today.

Equality campaigners and unions have today presented a giant cheque to Gordon Brown as a symbol of the gender pay gap.

Private sector carers will now be afforded the same rights as those in the public sector following a landmark employment tribunal ruling today.

HR news and analysis including: Why fewer under 25s are applying for apprenticeships TUPE: what happens to staff when insolvent businesses are rescued Presenter Tara Craig is joined by Kat Baker and John Charlton.Edited by Tara Craig.

Uncertainty over whether TUPE applies to employees who switch employers when insolvent businesses are rescued persists despite a Court of Appeal decision in the long-running case of Oakland v Wellswood.

The number of under-25s starting apprenticeships has dropped by nearly 10% during the recession, signalling that employers are beginning to "sideline" on-the-job training placements.

Firefighters in Merseyside will be balloted for strike action in a week's time unless the fire authority meets the union's demands.

France Telecom plans to allow older staff to work part-time in a bid to stop a string of suicides at the firm.

Police officers have branded HR advice about slippery leaves in autumn, icy roads in winter and bright sunshine as "patronising".

The BBC will slash its £79m senior management pay bill by a quarter, cutting more than 100 jobs by 2013.

A well-known African-American Islamic leader in Detroit was shot to death byFederal Bureau of Investigation agents on Oct. 28 at a warehouse in Dearborn.Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, who headed the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque on thecity's west side, was killed

Electricity was in the air Oct. 24 as hundreds of people filled the south stepsof the Texas Capitol in Austin to shout loud and clear: "Todd Willinghamwas innocent!" Gathering for the 10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty, abolitionistsfrom

The Workers World Party 50th anniversary conference will take place in NewYork City Nov. 14-15. A major focus of the gathering will be the globalcapitalist economic crisis and the great need to intensify the prosecution ofthe worldwide class struggle.

On Dec. 8, 2003, former President George W. Bush signed into law the misnamedMedicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The evidence demonstrates that, in reality, this legislation has been acorporate giveaway to the same insurance and pharmaceutical

An International Action Center meeting on Oct. 25 featured dynamic eyewitnessreports from three epicenters of struggle—Honduras, Pittsburgh andGaza.

The highest court in New York state held Oct. 22 that Tishman-Speyer, a biglandlord that controls 11,277 apartments in one major Manhattan apartmentcomplex alone, must significantly lower the rents on over 4,000 apartments thatit leases at "market rate" and put

What was Washington's role in the Oct. 18 bombing in Iran that killed 29people? Among the dead were a top officer and four other senior officers of theRepublican Guard who were meeting with Sunni and Shiite leaders in Sarbaz, acity

A decade ago on Oct. 14, 1999, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere passed away inhis East African nation of Tanzania. Nyerere was one of the leading politicalfigures to emerge during the post-World War II era of anti-colonial andanti-imperialist struggles that swept