The union that represents Hyundai Motor Co's South Korean workers said on Tuesday it plans to resume a week of wage talks with management on Wednesday, staving off any immediate prospect of a walkout in a protracted industrial dispute.

Turkish inflation hits two-decade high of 78.6%

President Emmanuel Macron's government will get its first taste of life under France's new political order in the days ahead when it tables a bill to help households cope with runaway inflation without a controlling majority in parliament.

Britain's heavy-handed approach to industrial relations has backfired as employees reject its "nonsense" demands for pay restraint and increasingly join unions, the head of the country's biggest trade union umbrella group said.

Unions give employees a voice – both as individuals and as a collective – that is independent of their employer.

One reason for lower membership levels among younger workers is that they are more likely to be in precarious employment with less access to unions.

Uber Technologies Inc and Australia's main transport union agreed on Tuesday to back a federal body that enforces minimum pay for the company's drivers, joining a global thawing of relations between the ride-hailing giant and industrial bodies.

Some cabin crew at Ryanair went on strike in Belgium, Spain and Portugal on Friday in a dispute over pay and working conditions, causing limited disruption as the budget airline cancelled dozens of flights that left hundreds of passengers stranded.

Macron 'compromise' call meets opposition resistance

Trade unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have called for strikes this coming weekend, while easyJet's operations in Spain face a nine-day strike next month.

After 21 years as a service agent at Air France, Karim Djeffal left his job during the COVID-19 pandemic to start his own job-coaching consultancy.

The strike would come as summer holidays get underway in European countries and a recovery in air travel following the lifting of most Covid-19 travel restrictions.

Venezuelan pop and reggaeton fans able to pay the equivalent of the country's monthly minimum wage for a concert ticket are filling venues for the first time in over seven years to see their favorite national and international artists.

Shareholders in Sainsbury's will get to vote on a resolution at next month's annual meeting calling for Britain's second biggest supermarket group to commit to paying the so-called real living wage to all its workers by July 2023.

May 1 is a public holiday in many countries and Sunday saw events on every continent.

Walmart, which currently has 12,000 drivers in its fleet, is looking to add another 5,000 in 2022.

All World Cup hosts had to guarantee the rights of gay and transgender people. Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar.

Their replacements are mostly from overseas, recruited by agencies in India, the Philippines, Colombia or other countries where wages are low.

A sign of the growing concern is that Google searches for the word "inflation" have hit their highest levels

Walmart's starting wage is now between $12 and $17 an hour depending on the position, a company spokeswoman said.

The changes in Britain have come as Uber has faced sliding driver bookings owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Oxford Economics analysts said the pandemic unemployment benefits may be a factor limiting labor supply.

Amazon on Thursday announced plans to add 75,000 jobs in the United States and Canada, with signing bonuses of up to $1,000.

Australian and New Zealand app Menulog last month moved toward treating its Australian delivery riders as employees

Beyond the paid leave policy for workers, Biden is asking Congress to pass a bill that would allow employers to give workers seven paid sick days a year.

Amazon announced plans to raise wages for half a million U.S. workers

Amazon has argued that most of its workers don't want or need a union and that it already provides more than most other employers, with a minimum $15 hourly wage and other benefits.

Unions and political leaders have argued that Amazon employees face constant pressure and monitoring, with little job protection, highlighting the need for collective bargaining.

Caracas is demanding access to funds blocked abroad due to sanctions against Maduro, to buy more doses from the global Covax vaccine-sharing mechanism.

It is a massive change in the business model of a company that had argued before Britain's Supreme Court that its drivers were self-employed.