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Swaziland
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Swaziland "worst offender on workers' rights"

afrol News, 4 November - A new report by international trade unions named Swaziland the "worst offender on workers' rights." Even worst practices such as institutionalised forced labour and child labour are common in the kingdom.

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Report calls for lifting of restrictions on remittances to Africa

afrol News, 20 October - A new United Nations report calls for the lifting of restrictions and costly fees imposed on the $40 billion that migrant workers send home to Africa each year, the world body’s agency tasked with eradicating rural poverty said today.

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Formalise employment for greater trade benefits, ILO/WTO study

afrol News, 12 October - A joint study from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has found that high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries' ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in job transition.

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South Africa
Politics | Labour | Economy - Development | Society

COSATU express shock on output drop

afrol News, 12 August - The Congress of South African Trade Unions has expressed its horror at today’s 17.1 percent drop in factory output in the year to June 2009, saying this was the latest proof that the country is still mired in a deep recession.

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South Africa
Labour | Politics | Economy - Development | Society

New offer to avert further municipal strike

afrol News, 28 July - The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) has revised upwards its wage increase offer to municipal workers in a bid to end the nationwide strike that started Monday.

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» 12.05.2009 - Burundi doctors continue strike over pay
» 23.04.2009 - Govt threatens to withhold pay for striking doctors
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 13.02.2009 - Teachers outraged by caning of colleagues
» 19.01.2009 - Teachers embark on an indefinite strike
» 06.01.2009 - Doctors strike in Lagos leaves patients stranded
» 17.12.2008 - Striking health workers resume duties
» 08.12.2008 - Lesotho union questions govt subsidy of Chinese firm
» 27.11.2008 - Seychelles trims down public service
» 17.11.2008 - SA labour protests Western Sahara inclusion in EU-Morocco deal
» 11.11.2008 - Foreign dominance of Seychelles judiciary increases
» 16.10.2008 - South Africa shuts two of continent largest gold mines
» 10.10.2008 - US awards $4.7 million to strengthen workers' benefits of international trade
» 06.10.2008 - International financial institutions urged to consider poor nations
» 02.10.2008 - US awards $58 million to eliminate exploitive child labour around world
» 03.09.2008 - Battle of flamingo dam - scientists axed
» 13.06.2008 - "Child labour still prevalent in Ghana"
» 30.04.2008 - Morocco's fatal blaze blamed on greed
» 24.04.2008 - Mauritius snubs labour laws
» 28.01.2008 - Ghana shuns labour standard
» 12.12.2007 - Journalists attract solidarity
» 17.07.2007 - Critical lack of health workers in Brazzaville
» 16.07.2007 - Stakeholders bang heads on 'Brain Drain' in Malawi
» 06.06.2007 - Violence against Chad unions "escalates"
» 04.06.2007 - Month-old general strike threatens Chadians
» 01.06.2007 - Niger govt agrees to fight slavery
» 12.05.2007 - Africa mounts work safety campaign
» 29.03.2007 - Unemployment dropping in South Africa
» 20.03.2007 - Gambian President says he hates firing spree
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique Minister spying on lazy workers
» 22.01.2007 - Libya to lay off 400,000 employees
» 22.01.2007 - Shortage of farm workers in Zimbabwe
» 21.12.2006 - University lecturers in Uganda call off strike
» 20.12.2006 - 400 new doctors to lose jobs in Kenya
» 08.12.2006 - Kenyan parliament doubles President's salary
» 24.11.2006 - Angola to create 217,000 new jobs in fisheries
» 22.11.2006 - Botswana army rolls out carpet for women
» 16.11.2006 - Moroccan professors strike over work conditions
» 13.11.2006 - Fear overcomes Gambian civil servants
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 13.10.2006 - Privatisation threatens Burkina's small-scale miners
» 28.09.2006 - South Africa cuts unemployment, but too slowly
» 28.09.2006 - "Child labour still widespread in Congo Brazzaville"
» 15.09.2006 - Nigeria oil workers suspend strike
» 27.04.2006 - Mauritius urges laureates to return home
» 05.04.2006 - Djibouti govt continues war on unions
» 04.04.2006 - Health workers turn back on Nigeria
» 21.02.2006 - Djibouti trade union leaders arrested
» 02.12.2005 - "Slavery still casts shadow over Mauritania"
» 10.05.2005 - Labour standards remain poor in Nigeria
» 17.03.2005 - Lesotho reviewing labour code
» 08.03.2005 - Algeria union promotes women's rights
» 08.03.2005 - Malawi's tobacco tenants "suffer horrible abuses"
» 07.03.2005 - Confusion over Niger govt stand on slavery
» 04.03.2005 - Niger govt to free 7,000 slaves
» 17.02.2005 - Unions protest new Djibouti labour code
» 14.02.2005 - Next West African cocoa harvest "without slave labour"
» 09.02.2005 - Child labour affects 72% of Sierra Leone's children
» 03.02.2005 - South Africa union again expelled from Zimbabwe
» 03.01.2005 - Nigeria trade union calls for electoral reforms
» 01.11.2004 - Cape Town registers call centre investment boom
» 11.10.2004 - Nation-wide fuel strike hits Nigeria
» 06.10.2004 - Burundi trade union leaders freed
» 06.09.2004 - Burkina Faso hosts AU employment summit
» 13.08.2004 - Norwegian NGO in Liberia accused of bribery
» 09.08.2004 - Zimbabwe union leaders released on bail
» 12.07.2004 - "Plans to deregister trade union" in Nigeria
» 30.06.2004 - Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali
» 04.06.2004 - Nigeria govt gets tougher on labour laws
» 10.05.2004 - Trade union rights "lacking in Rwanda"
» 02.04.2004 - Growing unemployment main South African election issue
» 19.02.2004 - Unions: "No positive results of Ghanaian privatisation"
» 04.02.2004 - The Gambia accused of "core labour rights violations"
» 25.11.2003 - Congolese, Rwandan unions as forerunners of peace
» 19.08.2003 - SA unions see hope for economic recovery
» 23.07.2003 - Trade unions want action on São Tomé, Liberia
» 27.06.2003 - South Africans show solidarity with Zim opposition
» 14.06.2003 - Zambian trade unions increasingly met with violence
» 14.06.2003 - Mauritian export processing zones improving rights
» 13.06.2003 - Malagasy labour rights "inoperative"
» 13.06.2003 - Senegalese govt becomes more anti-trade unionist
» 12.06.2003 - "Slavery and torture" for Mauritanian employees
» 12.06.2003 - Gabonese unionists still discriminated against
» 11.06.2003 - Equatoguinean govt ignores labour rights
» 11.06.2003 - Labour disputes still dominate Central African Republic
» 11.06.2003 - Most Burkinabe still lack right to strike
» 10.06.2003 - Swazi govt remains "fiercely anti-union"
» 10.06.2003 - Chad-Cameroon pipeline cause of labour disputes
» 10.06.2003 - Benin hailed for progressive labour laws
» 10.06.2003 - Slow progress in Botswana's labour rights
» 30.05.2003 - South African polemics on minimum wage

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