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Minimum Wage Commission receives training
The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation held a two-day induction workshop for the five newly appointed members of the Wage Commission.
The commission was appointed to investigate the possibility of introducing the National Minimum Wage (NMW) which aims to improve the wages of the lowest-paid workers, reduce income inequality, alleviating poverty, and achieving a decent standard of living for all.
The two-day induction course was aimed at engaging the commission on its work, unpacking terms of references, sharing both national and international experiences on national minimum wage mechanism setting.
The Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation, Utoni Nujoma in his keynote address, said the work of the wage commission can result in the improvement of the living standards of hundreds or even thousands of people, and therefore it should pay attention during its investi
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Hiring discrimination is pervasive within temporary employment agencies that serve warehouses and factories, Chicago-area workers’ rights organizations said Tuesday in releasing a study documenting practices that allegedly hurt Black or Latino applicants.
The report said that in two-thirds of tests conducted in 2019, temp agencies hired or assisted applicants of one race and declined help for those of another race at roughly the same time. The tests used Black and Latino applicants paired for similar skills and backgrounds.
The findings show the importance of suing employers that violate state laws about fair hiring, said Atty. Gen. Kwame Raoul, speaking at the virtual conference where the report was announced. Noting that his office created a worker protection unit and has had a task force examine employer discrimination and harassment, Raoul said, “Where we find that this is happening, we are committed to putting a stop to it.”
New Belarus State Control Committee chairman appointed
MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) – Vasily Gerasimov has been appointed Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus. The corresponding personnel decision was made by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 26 January, BelTA has learned.
Since September 2020 Vasily Gerasimov has been acting chairman of the committee. Before that he was First Deputy Chairman of the State Control Committee.
Vasily Gerasimov was born in 1975 in Minsk.
He graduated from the Belarusian State University in 1997 and the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus in 2014.
In 1997 he started his career as a chief specialist of the legislation section of the legislation and international relations department of the Supreme Economic Court of the Republic of Belarus. In 1999 he was appointed head of the section, in 2000 - head of the department for maintenance of supervision and generalization of the