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Chavez Threatens Sidor Expropriation: CARACAS (Reuters UK) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to expropriate steelmaker Ternium (TX) Sidor if the company cannot reach an agreement over its nationalization "in the coming hours." The announcement comes only a day after Venezuela said it would offer Ternium less...; Tags: Agreement, Chavez, Government, Labor Relations, Human Resources, AES Corp., Oukbs, Verizon Communications Inc.; News items 2008-04-27
Hugo Chavez Threatens Sidor Expropriation: CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to expropriate steelmaker Ternium (TX) Sidor if the company cannot reach an agreement over its nationalization "in the coming hours." The announcement comes only a day after Venezuela said it would...; Tags: Venezuela, steel, agreement, collective bargaining, AES, president, valuation, government, Thomson Reuters Corp., worker, telecommunications, leader, financial; News items 2008-04-27
American Axle Posts Quarterly Loss Amid UAW Strike: By Soyoung Kim DETROIT (Reuters) - Auto parts supplier American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc (AXL) posted a bigger-than- expected quarterly loss on Friday, hit by a strike at five U.S. plants, and it repeated threats to close the factories unless ...; Tags: Labor relations, strike, UAW, American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., quarterly loss, General Motors Corp., SUV, Detroit, conference call, collective bargaining, labor contract, worker, Thomson Reuters Corp., net income, U.S., analyst, income, agreement, benefit, finan; News items 2008-04-25
H-1B Visas Remain Sore Point for All Sides: For the fifth year in a row, the federal limit on H-1B visas has been reached before the government's fiscal year even begins. This time, the cap was reached nearly six months before the federal 2009 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. It took only one week...; Tags: H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Kevin Kelleher; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B Visas: This is an extremely complicated issue, and it's been around for years, but let's talk some common sense about H-1B visas. Bill Gates went before Congress this week to try to make it easier for companies to hire foreign tech workers, using this visa status. Essentially, companies can bring in...; Tags: William J. Holstein, H-1B; Blog posts 2008-03-13

Labor Relations Coordinator: The Labor Relations Coordinator job description template includes the following job summary: To improve relations between workers or union representatives and lower level management personnel by discussing problems, and analyzing and resolving situations directly, if possible, without the necessity of formal grievance procedures. Additional information available includes essential job functions,...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, labor relations, job, worker; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Industrial Engineer A Job Description: The Industrial Engineer A job description template includes the following job summary: To establish labor standards and to resolve questions relating to job utilization and performance. To estimate labor standards for specific products, and assist the engineering department management to evaluate capital equipment requests. Also works on studies relating to...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Labor relations, labor standards, capital equipment, job, performance; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Debunking the IT Shortage Myth: While Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are lobbying Congress to increase the number of H-1B temporary worker visas so they can meet what they describe as a shortage of skilled technology workers, many skilled technology workers who are already in the U.S. are reporting having trouble finding jobs. InformationWeek recently explored...; Tags: Benefits, information technology, Nicole Solis, H-1B, salary; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Labor Relations And Time Management Software: Never underestimate the value of employee attendance and time management software particularly when it involves employee/labor relations. People make mistakes; that's why there are erasers on pencils. Ever hear that phrase before? Its one hundred percent true. Sometimes the person making the error has to PROVE that the error was...; Tags: time management, labor relations; White papers 2006-01-01
Visa Limits Fuel Frustration in Efforts to Fill High-Skill Jobs: When U.S. recruiters go out to buy technical talent, they shop in domestic markets that are highly protected by restrictive immigration policies, voluminous and ever-changing rules and a cumbersome visa process. The prime example of this regulatory nightmare is the H-1B visa program. Because bringing in an employee under an...; Tags: Crain Communications Inc., H-1B, H-1B visa, talent; White papers 2006-03-01
Globalization and the Right to Free Association and Collective: This article tests the effect of globalization on a specific labor right, which forms part of what are commonly regarded as core or fundamental labor standards. Employing a new measure of free association and collective bargaining rights, it finds that countries that are more open to trade have fewer rights...; Tags: Labor relations, collective bargaining, labor standards, globalization; White papers 2005-04-01
Building on Progress: Strengthening Compliance and Enhancing Capacity: A Report of the Working Group of the Vice Ministers Responsible for Trade and Labor in the Countries of Central America and the Dominican Republic. This report papers identifies six key areas of focus for actions to improve workers? rights, enhance capacity and promote a broader culture of compliance with...; Tags: Inter-American Development Bank, labor standards, compliance, worker; White papers 2005-04-01
Homeland Security: Final Regulations for the Department of Homeland Security Human Resources Management System (Subpart E) Compared With Current Law: On February 1, 2005, final regulations to implement a new human resources management system for the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") were published. The regulations provide for the organization of the new personnel system, describing, among other topics, the use of pay bands, how jobs will be evaluated, and how...; Tags: Human resource management (HRM), Organizational structure, Regulations, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, HRMS, regulation, HRM, collective bargaining, Human Resources, homeland security, job; White papers 2005-02-09
Unemployment, Wages and Collective Bargaining in the European Union: The paper questions the predominant view on unemployment and wages in the European Union according to which high unemployment is primarily caused by labor market rigidities, i.e. social institutions and regulations which prevent "market-clearing" real wage levels and structures. Weakened labor union bargaining power and changing collective bargaining strategies have...; Tags: Labor relations, Virtual Washington State University, collective bargaining, unemployment, European Union, salary, strategy; White papers 2004-09-01
Between Employment Relationships and Market Relationships: Dilemmas for HR Management: In the classic company the model of wage labor under a standard labor contract still dominates, while in the modern network/virtual company contracts for services is becoming a dominant way of utilization of labor. Between these two models many hybrid employment relations are developing, combining elements of both. The hybridization...; Tags: Human resource management (HRM), Organizational structure, HRM, labor contract, appraisal, supervisor, Human Resources; White papers 2004-08-05
Asian Evasion: Public Employees Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, earned an impressive 23.3 percent return in 2003. Imagine how much better it might have done if it paid more attention to Asia. In February 2002, Calpers pulled out of stocks in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, citing concerns about corporate governance,...; Tags: Labor relations, Gale Group, labor standards, pension fund, corporate governance, stock; White papers 2004-03-01
The Missing Link: Product Market Regulation, Collective Bargaining And The European Unemployment Puzzle: This paper examines product market regulation as an explanation for divergent US and continental European labor market performance. First, it shows that the choice of bargaining regime is crucial for the effect of product market competition on unemployment rates, being substantial under collective and negligible under individual bargaining. The results...; Tags: Labor relations, collective bargaining; White papers 2004-02-15
Improving Labor Standards in the Apparel Industry: Can Government Make a Difference?: This paper examines patterns of compliance with federal minimum wage laws in the U.S. apparel industry and analyzes the impact of new methods of intervention designed to improve regulatory performance. Specifically, in 1996, the U.S. Department of Labor began to use pressure arising from its statutory ability to interrupt the...; Tags: Manufacturing, Harvard University, labor standards, agreement, manufacturer, supply chain, compliance, survey, monitor, performance, industry, network; White papers 2004-01-01
Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate: The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One reason is the belief that trade and capital flows have massive effects on the labor market - either positive, per the claims of international financial institutions and free trade enthusiasts, or...; Tags: National Bureau of Economic Research, free trade, labor standards, globalization, agreement; White papers 2003-09-01
Labor Standards and Trade Agreements: There is a wide disparity of views on issues of international labor standards. Labor and social activists are concerned about the increased imports from countries in which labor standards are ostensibly not enforced at a sufficiently high level. This paper explores these different views and the available options for addressing...; Tags: Labor relations, University of Michigan, labor standards, foreign direct investment, monitoring, agreement; White papers 2003-08-18