Rubén Toledano - Noticias sobre trabajo y empleo

Photographer Kevin McElvaney documents a former wetland in Ghana which is home to the world's largest e-waste dumping site, and where most of the the boys and men who smash devices to get to the metals end up dying from cancer in their 20s

The United States has some of the weakest labor protections for temp workers in the developed world. Other countries have adopted regulations limiting the length of temp assignments, guaranteeing equal pay for equal work and restricting companies from hiring temps for hazardous tasks.

The growth of temp work following the Great Recession is harming workers and burdening the economy as a whole. Michael Grabell has been a reporter at ProPublica since 2008, covering a range of subjects including Obama's economic stimulus package and the Federal Air Marshal Service.

The United Auto Workers' defeat, by a 712 to 626 vote, in its effort to organize Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tenn., assembly plant, has been attributed to many causes: the South's anti-union tradition; the outspoken opposition of some local, Republican officials, including Sen. Bob Corker, Chattanooga's former mayor; and anti-union campaigns by conservative groups.

Recently while working a nine-hour shift in a busy cafe in Sheffield, I jokingly offered a job to a student waiting in the queue who'd remarked on how busy we were. "Oh no," he scoffed, looking embarrassed for me. "I'm over-qualified''.

Hay quien tiene una vocación clara desde pequeño, pero hay quien no la tiene clara nunca. Los primeros escogerán la carrera de sus sueños, si se pueden permitir pagarla y tienen la nota necesaria. Los segundos suelen acabar inmersos en un mar de dudas. Sobre todo en tiempos de crisis...

La devaluación salarial tiene varias caras. Se ve en la nómina mensual de quienes cobran menos ahora que hace unos meses o años. Lo notan quienes tienen el sueldo congelado o lo han visto crecer menos que los precios desde hace años. Y también lo padecen los que tienen que trabajar más horas ganando lo mismo.

This third publication in our series tackles one of the 'facts of working life' in the UK, namely the long-term trend for pay to rise faster than prices.

The world's 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world's population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me.

Expertos recomiendan cursar un posgrado sólo después de reunir una mínima experiencia laboral Aumenta la matrícula de este nivel en Jalisco, pero todavía no se refleja en empleos ni salarios GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (02/DIC/2013).- La escasez de oportunidades laborales y un futuro más prometedor atraen cada vez a más estudiantes a los programas de posgrado que ofrecen las universidades públicas y privadas de Jalisco.

The world footballing authority conceded on Thursday that there was little it could do to remedy the ordeal for migrant workers in Qatar reduced to slave labour conditions in creating the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. But a Fifa board member dismissed all talk of reversing the decision to hold the tournament there even if conditions were not improved.

Women in the labour market Rising employment for women and falling employment for men over 40 years Over the past 40 years there has been a rise in the percentage of women aged 16 to 64 in employment and a fall in the percentage of men.

Printer-friendly version People around the world share a love of chocolate, one of the most delicious and pleasurable foods on earth. Thousands of children in West Africa are forced to labor in the production of cocoa, chocolate's primary ingredient.

Printer-friendly version Freedom at Work to organize in the workplace and bargain collectively gives workers a voice on the job and the opportunity to strive towards a better life. Workers around the world face systematic barriers to organizing including egregious acts of violence and intimidation.

Rose solo mira a los ojos cuando está indignada, el resto del tiempo la vista se le pierde en la ventana por la que entra la luz del mediodía. A sus 35 años, la keniana habla a susurros la mayor parte del tiempo y evoca pocas cosas capaces de arrancarle una carcajada.

BERLIN - Swiss and European leaders reacted warily on Monday to the narrow approval by Swiss voters of a proposal to limit the number of foreigners allowed to live and work in Switzerland. A bare majority voted in a referendum on Sunday to cut immigration quotas and require that Swiss nationals be given priority in hiring.

Seis años de desplome laboral arrojan un saldo desolador. El paro de larga duración ha alcanzado cotas que amenazan con enquistarse en la...

La canciller Angela Merkel ha defendido este miércoles ante el pleno de la Cámara baja (Bundestag) el giro hacia la izquierda emprendido por su nueva coalición con los socialdemócratas del SPD. La líder democristiana (CDU/CSU) justificó la decisión de abrir la puerta a las jubilaciones con 63 para aquellos que hayan cotizado más de 45 años a los fondos de pensiones públicas.

Más de 10 mil trabajadores de la paralizada construcción de un nuevo juego de esclusas para ampliar el Canal de Panamá están ahora en zozobra: sin funciones momentáneas, con el puesto garantizado pero sin seguridad de que este fin de semana recibirán su pago quincenal.

The Economic Case for Paid Leave Laws By David Sirota For all the pro-family rhetoric that dominates America's political discourse, U.S. law remains decidedly anti-family-at least in comparison to peer countries. This is the world's only industrialized nation that does not require employers to provide any paid vacation days.