By around one o'clock when Industrialisation minister Henry Kosgey finished a tour of the Export Processing Zones (EPZ) at Athi River, thousands of job seekers - some previously laid off - had gathered at the entrance with various grievances.

A key point over the controversial labour laws has been resolved with the announcement of a new implementation date for three of the five statutes.

Botswana Secondary School Teachers Union (BOSETU) President Eric Ditau has resigned. He is joining the Labour Department as a Principal Industrial Relations Officer.

Online retailer Furniture@Work claims to have cut its employee attrition rate by almost 90% in just 12 months thanks to a training and development scheme.

The HR chief at SAP has admitted the employer software firm is facing talent management problems as the skills crisis bites.

Sub-prime loan firm Cattles has appointed Welcome Financial Services HR director Lucy Calver to "implement a group-wide approach to HR strategy".

The offices of Treasury civil servants are twice as large as those of private sector workers, leading MPs to criticise the government for wasting £326m a year on accommodation.

From 6 April 2008, only employers with fewer than 50 staff in the UK can ignore the Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) regulations.

Oyarce v Cheshire County Council The Court of Appeal decided, unanimously, that the reverse burden of proof which applies to direct and indirect race discrimination claims, does not apply to claims of victimisation.

Tourism sector is said to have the potential of creating 80 per cent employment generation. But access to roads, villages, towns or locations needs to be developed, if this is to be achieved, with roads and waterways receiving more attention

Inspector-General of police, Sir Mike Okiro, represented by DIG Onovo, has presented cheques worth N30,518,000 to 68 families of police officers who died or sustained serious injuries in the course of their duty under police personal accident insurance scheme.

President of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Alhaji Ali Abatcha, yesterday thanked the federal and some state governments for their regular payment of pensions.

Alhaji Lawal Dutsinma, President of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), said yesterday that inadequate midwives was responsible for the rise in maternal mortality in Nigeria.

Transcorp, otherwise known as Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, says it is working hard to prove cynics wrong with the steady progress it has made since taking firm control of Nigerian Telecommunications Plc, NITEL.

To convey the reasons and effects of xenophobia in South Africa and its effect on the working class, Thandokuhle Manzi and Patrick Bond take a microscopic look at Cato Manor Township, one of the sites where the attacks took place.

A GROUP of Skorpion Zinc mineworkers, accusing the company's General Manager, Gerald Boting, of "dictatorship", yesterday staged a protest march complaining about allegedly low wages and unfavourable work conditions.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Xavier Darcos, his minister of education,seem intent on picking a fight with the French unions.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New YorkCity on May 15th to protest the presentation of the Milton Friedman Prize toYon Goichochea. Inside, the leader of a counterrevolutionary Venezuelan studentgroup received the award at a lavish $500-a-plate

Cuba is actively helping Haiti develop a literacy project.

Manik Mukherjee, the vice president of the All-India Anti-Imperialist Forumand a senior leader of the Socialist Unity Center of India, spoke at a New YorkCity Workers World Forum May 16 along with WWP Secretariat members FredGoldstein and Teresa Gutierrez, who