Monthly Archives: January 2013

Karl Slym, managing director of Tata Motors, introduced the major restructuring initiative last year with the aim of boosting the carmaker’s position in India. Part of the transformation, according to a research report by equity brokerage Motila…

Indonesia is a key manufacturing base for Nike with 40 factories, employing some 171,000 workers producing footwear and apparel for the company.

Following mass protests, workers were awarded a 44% rise in the minimum wage to 2m rupiah ($228) a month,…

The technology is being rolled out as an effective means of shifting electricity use from daytime peak periods to less expensive periods of the day or at night, saving money and increasing overall system efficiency.

According to a recent report from …

The agency explained that the SST imitative it one of its main programmed inspection plans for high-hazard, non-construction workplaces that have 20 or more workers. The SST plan is based on data collected from a survey of 80,000 establishments in hig…

Hon Hai, known also by its trade name Foxconn, confirmed that the incident took place at a facility run by Jiangxi Xin Hai Yang Precision Components, located in China’s eastern Jiangxi province.

China Labor Watch reported on Friday that the str…

British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, uncovered that GSK has begun extending its payment terms from 60 days at the end of last year to 90 days, a move which Phil Orford, chief executive of the Forum of Private Business said shows ’scant regard…


Based on a sample size of more than 1.3 million people across 200 countries and territories from executives to frontline staff, new research from SHL finds that on average one in eight people globally pose a high level of behavioural risk to their …