Fast-food workers strike across US for $15 minimum pay
Fast-food workers and others in low-pay jobs launched one-day strikes and protests across the United States demanding a $15 an hour minimum wage and union rights.
Brazil gunman straps hostage with apparent explosives
An armed man took an employee hostage at a hotel in the Brazilian capital Monday and forced him to don a vest apparently stuffed with explosives.
Holiday packages from employers to improve national tourism: Kazakh Vice PM
Kazakhstani Ministry of Industry and New Technologies proposed an alternative to free holiday packages.
40 Indians in northern Iraq 'uncontactable'
Forty Indian employees stranded in violence-hit Iraq are "uncontactable", the foreign ministry said Wednesday, with a newspaper reporting the construction workers have been kidnapped.
GM fires 15 over ignition scandal but says 'no coverup'
General Motors chief executive Mary Barra said Thursday that the company has fired 15 mostly senior executives over the deadly ignition scandal that has placed the automaker under federal investigation.
Mass layoffs expected at ArcelorMittal Temirtau
ArcelorMittal Temirtau plans to dismiss almost one thousand Kazakhstan workers in 2014.
300 workers strike out at Western Europe - Western China highway
300 construction workers of the Western Europe-Western China highway project have gone on strike.
Phoenix TV journalists file harassment lawsuit in New York
Two employees of Hong Kong-based Phoenix television and a job applicant filed suit Tuesday against the company in New York after allegations of sexual harassment against its former bureau chief.
Intel lays off of 1,500 employees in Costa Rica
US microchip giant Intel announced Tuesday it was reducing its assembly and testing operations in Costa Rica and will lay off 1,500 employees.
Israeli Embassy in Kazakhstan on strike
The Israel Embassy in Kazakhstan has suspended its work from March 5, 2014 because of the strike that resulted from a lengthly labor dispute with the Israeli Ministry of Finance.
Kazakhmys to increase wages of its workers
Kazakhmys Plc has announced a wages raise for its industrial personnel.
Largest Kazakhstan companies to increase salaries from April 2014
KazZinc, ENRC and ArcelorMittal Temirtau will increase their employees' wagas by 10% starting from April 2014 because of the 20% tenge devaluation.
ArcelorMittal Temirtau denies job cuts
ArcelorMittal Temirtau has denied nurturing plans to lay off its employees.
Labor Minister of Kazakhstan comments on Abu Dhabi Plaza strike
Kazakhstan Labor Minister Tamara Duisenova has commented on yesterday's strike of the workers constructing Abu Dhabi Plaza skyscraper in Astana.
Kazakhstan poised to put ceiling on salaries
Kazakhstan is planning to set salary ceilings industry-wise.
Chinese companies owe $1.6 million in payments to their Kazakhstan employees
Kazakh-Chinese company AktobeMunaiGas owes more than 250 million tenge ($1.6 million) to its Kazakhstan staff.
Kazakhstan officials drink 1 billion tenge worth of tea with sweets in 10 months
Kazakhstan state officials have drunk almost 1 billion tenge ($6.5 million) worth of tea with sweets since the beginning of the year.
Kazakhstan to lift foreign workforce restrictions to be ready for EXPO-2017 in time
Kazakhstan is planing to legal create conditions to bring in experienced guest workers to construct the EXPO-2017 facilities.
Hiring a smoker costs US firms $6,000 a head
An employee who smokes costs his or her employer nearly $6,000 (4,500 euros) more per year than a non-smoker.
68 percent manipulate employers in Kazakhstan
The poll that covered 2.4 thousand people showed that 68 percent of respondents had manipulated their employers at least once.
