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New staff contracts draw THAI labour unions ire 9 published : 6 Apr 2021 at 06:00 9 The Thai Airways International Plc (THAI) labour union is seeking clarification on whether the airline complied with its debt-restructuring plan by changing the terms of employment of its staff. The union has targeted Chansin Treenuchagron, the airlines acting president, for his role in signing orders governing the companys restructuring and its new employment contracts. The union ha...

Chinese state media described both sorties as an effort to increase combat readiness and to practice a military pincer movement against the self-governing island. “This means Taiwan island was surrounded from both west and east, with the PLA coming from different directions,” the Communist Party-affiliated Global Times reported. The Biden administration signaled stronger diplomatic support for Taiwan last week by allowing U.S. Ambassador to Palau John Hennessey-Niland to accompany Palau’s...

Japan lines up with US against China over Taiwan The United States and Japan are preparing to escalate the confrontation with Beijing over Taiwan, which will be discussed in the upcoming summit between US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Originally slated for April 9, the meeting—Biden’s first in-person meeting with a foreign leader since coming to office—will now take place a week later. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force [Credit: Destroyer Squadron 15] Repo...

For Tokyo, peace in Taiwan isnt someone elses problem, chief representative in Japan says Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If youre not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Former Taiwan premier Hsieh Chang-ting leads opposition Democratic Progressive Party supporters during the beginning of a sit-in protest outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei in May 2010. | REUTERS JIJI Apr 4, 2021 Taiwan’s chief r...

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India needs hate crimes law on lines of Scotland Published : Mar 17, 2021, 7:34 am IST Updated : Mar 17, 2021, 7:34 am IST Actually, modern Scotland is a liberal, secular and civilised nation which has not known any blasphemy prosecution for more than 175 years  Through the passing of this landmark bill, Scotland’s Parliament has sent a strong and clear message to victims, perpetrators, communities and to the wider society that offences motivated by prejudice wil...

Introduction Gig was a word mostly used in the entertainment industry to express temporary/incidental employment. Gig economy can be defined as the ex ante specified, paid tasks carried out by independent contractor (or workers? or employees?) and is still small but expected to grow. The growth has accelerated since COVID-19 pandemic mostly via online platforms that mediate flexible labor, so much so that "platform economy" has become a common term as well. Most popular platforms are Uber, AirB...

On March 9, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021 (PRO Act) by a largely party-line vote of 225-206.

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US President Joe Biden has provided insight into his two-hour telephone conversation last month with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平). At a CNN town hall, Anderson Cooper asked Biden about the Uighurs and China’s human rights record. “We must speak up for human rights. It’s who we are,” Biden said. “My comment to him was, and I know him well, and he knows me well... The central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China, and he uses his rat...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Whereas the right not to be treated in a discriminatory manner is enshrined in the highest law of the land – the Constitution, measures in favour of protection against discrimination specifically in relation to employment matters may be found both in the Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Chapter 452 of the Laws of Malta), as well as the Equality for Men and Women Act (Chapter 456 of ...