Labour bill, if passed in the Parliament, will give freedom to companies to set work conditions and tailor pay

French labour law poised for passage amid protest

Activists claim that to keep costs low, manufacturers pay low wages, rely on cheaper contract labour and insist on unpaid overtime

India's $4 smartphone will further hurt underpaid workers' conditions, campaigners say

After a break of 20 years,?Afghanistan's first?cementfactory is once more clanking noisily in the countryside near Kabul as crushed-up limestone rocks rattle along a battered conveyor belt to the newly restored kiln. In an area desperately short of industry and jobs, workers hope the relaunch of the plant built by Czech engineers in 1957 and shut by the Taliban in 1995.

Hopes and fears for jobs as Afghan cement factory reopens

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