by admin | May 16, 2014 | News
by Laurie Kazan-Allen On May 7, 2014 at a prestigious ceremony in an iconic Brazilian museum in São Paulo, the work of veteran ban asbestos activist and former labor inspector Fernanda Giannasi was publicly commemorated when she was presented with an award for...
by admin | May 10, 2014 | News
Government has been asked to sign onto the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention (155) to ensure effective occupational health and safety in and around workplaces.“The Factory, Shop and Office Act currently in operation in Ghana limits the Factories...
by admin | May 10, 2014 | News
More than 4,600 U.S. workers were killed on the job and an estimated 50,000 died from occupational diseases during 2012, a new report from the AFL-CIO labor federation found. The federation’s annual report, Death on the Job, analyzes the most recent data on...
by admin | May 7, 2014 | News
By Our Representative The Gujarat government has said it has “decided” not to pay Rs 5 lakh each as compensation against five confirmed cases of silicosis death, despite a National Human Right Commission (NHRC) direction to the state officialdom to do so. The workers...
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