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Adjustment will ‘protect around one million minimum wage earners’ from ‘undue low pay’ and restore ‘purchasing power’, Labour Department said; Source link

Singapore plans to introduce a points-based visa system for some of its highest-paid foreign workers, including scores for how the applicant’s nationality contributes to the diversity of their firm, in addition to education, skills and pay.The programme unveiled Friday in parliament by Manpower Minister Tan See Leng is among the …

The UK’s main opposition Labour Party has suspended one of its lawmakers, pending an investigation into allegations he made racist comments to a reporter this month.Neil Coyle, who represents the London constituency of Bermondsey and Old Southwark, is alleged to have made Sinophobic remarks to Insider’s Henry Dyer, who is …

A deputy commissioner of the Labour Department has become the first senior Hong Kong official to have contracted Covid-19.Jeff Leung Wing-yan, who manages the occupational safety and health section, was confirmed with the coronavirus on Thursday evening, the department said.Hong Kong urged to tackle gaps in Covid-19 strategy, daily cases …

WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s closed borders have helped keep Covid-19 out of the Pacific nation, but a critical shortage of migrant labour is now fuelling protests among businesses and workers struggling with a staffing crisis. About 2,000 eateries stopped service and turned off lights across on Tuesday and are planning other …