Tag: Workers

• Tuesday, November 2nd 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Brazil's Labour Ministry bans sacking of unvaccinated workers

  

  Brazil's Labour Minister Onyx Lorenzoni has signed a resolution banning the dismissal of workers because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19. The ministerial document also labels such a requirement on the part of employers as “discriminatory.”

• Tuesday, May 19th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  LATAM Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru to lay off 1,400 workers

  

  LATAM Airlines Group, the largest airline conglomerate in Latin America, announced it will lay off 1,400 workers from its branches in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The news was confirmed by the company on May 15, after Reuters released an internal video where LATAM CEO Roberto Alvo announced the measures to its employees.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Peru fines McDonald's local franchise US$ 250.000 for safety violations that electrocuted two employees

  

  Peruvian authorities on Thursday fined the local owner of a McDonald's franchise US$250,000 for serious safety violations after two employees were electrocuted to death. Two workers, an 18-year-old man and a woman, died on Dec 15 while cleaning the kitchen of a McDonald's in Pueblo Libre, in the Lima province.

• Saturday, December 14th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  “Bad news” for Argentine industry: Fernández's emergency decree doubles compensation for 180 days

  

  The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, established through a Decree of Necessity and Urgency the double compensation to workers for a period of 180 days in case of “dismissals without just cause” and “given the need to stop the worsening of the labor crisis “ The business sector receives it as ”bad news.”

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Paris charm offensive to attract City of London workers with English schools

  

  The woman tasked with attracting City workers to Paris as Brexit rolls on is stepping up her charm offensive, with plans for a new private English school to cater for the wealthy. Marie-Celie Guillaume, the chief executive of La Defense – the business district in the west of Paris – is banking on family life being the key that unlocks a raft of new relocations from Britain to France.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  German industrial labor win the right to reduced working flexible hours

  

  Industrial workers in south-western Germany have won the right to reduced working hours as part of a deal that could benefit millions of employees across the country. Workers will be able to reduce their weekly hours from 35 to 28 for up to two years to look after their families.