Friday, October 29, 2010
[IWS] NAVIGATING THE LABOR MARKET IN CHINA: ENHANCING EXPATRIATE EFFECTIVENESS [6 October 2010]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Cornell HR Review
http://cornellhrreview.org/
NAVIGATING THE LABOR MARKET IN CHINA: ENHANCING EXPATRIATE EFFECTIVENESS [6 October 2010]
By Michelle Atkinson; Ann M. Kubricky; Nathan J. Sheranian
or
[full-text, 6 pages]
Abstract:
As business continues to grow in China, employers there struggle to find locals who possess the needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to meet the talent demands of the market. Many multinational corporations fill requisitions with candidates from outside of their local region or even from outside China.
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[IWS] ILO: EU SYNTHESIS REPORT: 27 NATIONAL SEMINARS ON ANTICIPATING AND MANAGING RESTRUCTURING [18 October 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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ILO-International Training Centre (ITC)
27 National Seminars on Anticipating and Managing Restructuring - A.R.E.NA.S.
(Service contract VC/ 2008/0667)
EU SYNTHESIS REPORT
27 September 2010
Authors
Ola Bergström is Associate Professor in Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Andrea Broughton is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies, United Kingdom
Claude Emmanuel Triomphe is the Director of ASTREES, France
http://arenas.itcilo.org/en/eu-synthesis-report/eu-synthesis-report/download
[full-text, 159 pages]
See also -- http://arenas.itcilo.org/en/news/eu-synthesis-report-now-available
PREFACE
This report examines the measures used for anticipating and managing restructuring in the 27
Member States of the European Union at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century.
Restructuring is defined here as any change in the structure of an organisation with an impact on
the employment or working conditions of the workers.
The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the measures available to anticipate and
manage restructuring in the 27 EU Member States. We also wish to help policy-makers at the
European, national and regional levels to better understand these measures, and to assist them
in policy formation and the design of more effective legislation. An additional aim of this report is
to support labour market actors, such as trade unions, employers and their organizations, in their
policy-making.
The comparative analysis in this report is based on data collected by an international group of
experts in an EU-funded project on Anticipating Restructuring in Enterprises: National Seminars
(ARENAS), coordinated by the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) in Turin, and on
the minutes of seminars organised in each of the 27 Member States.
The aim of this project was twofold:
- to support the sharing of knowledge concerning restructuring; and
- to disseminate the lessons learned on existing and innovative measures being taken in the
EU Member States for anticipating and managing restructuring at national, regional, and
local levels, and across specific economic sectors.
This report is the first attempt to draw conclusions from this project.
CONTENTS
Preface...............................................................................................................5
Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview of Restructuring in the EU ..............................7
1.1 Methodology ................................................................................................9
1.2 The context for restructuring : labour market development ...............................11
1.3 Differences in recent national labour market policy approaches ........................13
1.4 Regulation of restructuring ..........................................................................14
1.5 Regulating redundancies in the context of restructuring ..................................16
1.6 Actors involved in restructuring ....................................................................17
Chapter 2 Anticipating restructuring....................................................................21
2.1 Classification of anticipation measures..........................................................21
2.2 Economic and labour market forecasting measures .........................................22
2.3 Anticipating and supporting transition...........................................................27
2.4 Concluding remarks ....................................................................................37
Chapter 3 Measures to manage restructuring........................................................41
3.1 Measures to avoid redundancies ...................................................................41
3.2 Managing Redundancies .............................................................................49
3.3 Training for transition and reintegration .........................................................57
3.4 Concluding remarks ....................................................................................60
Chapter 4 Dynamics, trends, issues and dilemmas................................................63
4.1 Practices and strategies of the main actors ....................................................63
4.2. Frameworks and measures..........................................................................74
4.3 Concluding remarks : restructuring, the crisis and their three-fold effect ............81
Chapter 5 Conclusions .......................................................................................83
5.1 Anticipating and managing restructuring .......................................................84
5.2 Key Findings and a way forward ...................................................................88
Annexes............................................................................................................91
Annex I – List of national experts ........................................................................91
Annex II – Main measures for anticipating restructuring.........................................93
Annex III – Case studies on anticipation of restructuring: main lessons learnt .........107
Annex IV – Main measures for managing restructuring .........................................111
Annex V – Case studies on management of restructuring: main lessons learnt.........153
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[IWS] GENDER & ECONOMIC POLICY MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE-AFRICA (GEPMI-Africa) [28 October 2010]
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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African Development Bank (AfDB)
Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative-Africa (GEPMI-Africa)
See also
2010 African Economic Conference, Tunis, Tunisia, October 27-29, 2010
Press Release 28 October 2010]
Closing Gender Gaps crucial to Equitable, Efficient Economic Development Management-GEPMI-Africa partners
Four development institutions including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) and the Makerere University, Kampala (MUK), on Wednesday October 27, 2010 in Tunis, jointly launched the Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI-Africa).
In his opening remark UNDP African Regional Bureau Director, Tegegnework Gettu said that “closing gender gaps in Africa’s economic development is a matter of equity and efficiency”. For his part, AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, said that the Bank had since recognized the need to mainstream gender in its operations, emphasizing that GEPMI-Africa is a ground-breaking initiative that will enhance cooperation between AfDB and the UNDP in the area of gender. In his intervention, the AfDB Chief Economist, Mthuli Ncube, said that the key gender issues today are knowing the number of female enrolment in schools, the spread of female enrolments into science and technology-based courses as well as the job and managerial distribution in favour of women. He noted that some studies have revealed that companies with greater number of women managers present better financial returns.
For his part, Mr Pedersen Mogens, AfDB Executive Director for Denmark, Finland, India, Norway, and Sweden observed that gender-differences affect economic outcome and pointed out that for economic growth to be sustained it has to be cared for equitably.
Speaking on behalf of UNECA and IDEP, Mr. Emmanuel Nnadozie expressed the delight of ECA and its capacity-building arm, IDEP to be partners in the initiative. Among the reasons he outlined for the importance of GEPMI-Africa were: “the centrality of gender in African development, the need to deepen previous efforts at integrating a gender approach into economic policy development planning and the importance of ensuring that policy-makers are themselves better equipped to handle gender issues in the development process.”
AND MORE....
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
[IWS] OECD: BRIEFING ON EXCHANGE RATE DEVELOPMENTS [27 October 2010]
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Cornell University
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD Economics Department Briefing, October 2010.
Briefing on exchange rate developments [27 October 2010]
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/46/46212957.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Foreign exchange intervention is not the most constructive instrument for managing the macro-economic impacts of currency volatility. A new briefing note from the OECD analyses recent swings in individual currencies, assesses the risks posed and makes the case for greater international co-operation.
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[IWS] CRS: Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues [9 September 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues
Ruth Ellen Wasem, Specialist in Immigration Policy
Karma Ester, Information Research Specialist
September 9, 2010
http://opencrs.com/document/RS20844/2010-09-09/download/1013/
[full-text, 10 pages]
Summary
When civil unrest, violence, or natural disasters erupt in spots around the world, concerns arise
over the safety of foreign nationals from these troubled places who are in the United States.
Provisions exist in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to offer temporary protected status
(TPS) or relief from removal under specified circumstances. A foreign national who is granted
TPS receives a registration document and an employment authorization for the duration of TPS.
The United States currently provides TPS or deferred enforced departure (DED) to over 300,000
foreign nationals from a total of seven countries: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia,
Nicaragua, Somalia, and Sudan. Liberians have had relief from removal for the longest period,
first receiving TPS in March 1991 following the outbreak of civil war.
The devastation caused by the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti prompted calls for the
Administration of President Barrack Obama to grant TPS to Haitians in the United States at the
time of the earthquake. The scale of current humanitarian crisis—estimated thousands of Haitians
dead and reported total collapse of the infrastructure in the capital city of Port au Prince—led the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to announce on January 13, 2010, that it is temporarily
halting the deportation of Haitians. On January 15, 2010, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano
granted TPS to Haitians in the United States at the time of the earthquake.
Under the INA, the executive branch grants TPS or relief from removal. Congress, however, has
also provided TPS legislatively. Legislation pertaining to TPS has been introduced in the 111th
Congress.
Contents
Background ...............................................................................................................................1
Humanitarian Migrants ...............................................................................................................1
Temporary Protected Status.........................................................................................................2
Other Blanket Forms of Relief ....................................................................................................3
Nationalities Receiving Temporary Protections ...........................................................................3
Issues.........................................................................................................................................4
Haitians ...............................................................................................................................4
Other Nations Affected by Natural Disasters .........................................................................5
Liberians..............................................................................................................................5
Central Americans.................................................................................................................6
Peruvians and Colombians ....................................................................................................6
Adjustment of Status.............................................................................................................6
Legislation in the 111th Congress .................................................................................................7
Tables
Table 1. Countries Whose Nationals in the United States Currently Benefit from
Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure..................................................4
Contacts
Author Contact Information ........................................................................................................7
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
[IWS] EIRO: DEBATE on EU FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING RESTRUCTURING [25 October 2010]
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
European Level
Debate on EU framework for managing restructuring [25 October 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2010/10/articles/eu1010031i.htm
Restructuring in the workplace is becoming more commonplace across Europe due to economic and technological changes. The European Trade Union Confederation has called on the European Commission to develop an EU-level instrument to manage restructuring. The Commission has indicated that this issue will be addressed in a new industrial policy communication later in 2010 and that it may invite EU-level social partners to negotiate a European framework instrument in this field.
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[IWS] INVITATION: THE EMPLOYMENT LAW HORIZON FACING GLOBAL EMPLOYERS IN AN UNCERTAIN ECONOMY , 12 November 2010 at CORNELL CLUB in NYC
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ILR School at Cornell; Cornell Law School; Ius Laboris | The Global Alliance of Leading Employment Law Practices.
(Please bring this to the attention of interested parties).
YOU ARE INVITED TO--
The Employment Law Horizon Facing Global Employers in an Uncertain Economy
November 12, 2010 - New York City ß-DATE
A Program Co-Sponsored by The Cornell ILR Labor and Employment Law Program and Ius Laboris | The Global Alliance of Leading Employment Law Practices.
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Cornell Club—New York ß-WHERE
6 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017
• 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. • Cocktails and Networking
Register online or print the registration form and fax it {Panelists and group registrations must be faxed (212-340-7979) or e-mailed (esta_bigler_ilr-lel@cornell.edu).}
This unique conference — bringing together leading labor, employment and Human Resources attorneys from more than 10 countries — will provide valuable insight into the evolving world of employment law for businesses operating around the globe.
Long, or even short-term assignments away from an individual’s home country regularly raise a large number of questions and challenges… legal, cultural and matters of business strategy and employee relations. Join lawyers from Ius Laboris — the Alliance of Leading Employment Law Practices — as they provide a fast-paced tour of the evolving world of international employment law.
Topics will include: (View the DRAFT AGENDA)
• Preventing Discrimination in Global Operations
• International Framework Agreements — Union Pressure Points for Multinational Corporations
• “Translating” U.S. Policies Abroad
• 21st Century Challenges: Evolving Notions of Privacy, Harassment and Workplace Violence
• Update on International Employment & Labor Law —Case Developments
Conference Location: The Cornell Club—New York • 6 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017
For more information on the program or our CLE scholarship policy, contact Stephanie Sutow, Program Coordinator, at esta_bigler_ilr-lel@cornell.edu, 212.340.2866 (phone), or 212.340.7979 (fax).
Registration fee: $250.00 - Registrations should be received at least 5 business days prior to the conference to ensure your participation. You will receive written confirmation upon receipt of your registration and payment. If you have not received a written confirmation, please contact us before traveling to the conference.
Enrollment is limited, early registration is recommended.
The registration fee does not include hotel accommodations. If you wish, we can provide a list of area hotels.
Call 212.340.2866 or e-mail esta_bigler_ilr-lel@cornell.edu for information about group discounts.
Continuing Legal Education Credits
This program is approved for 8.5 Professional Practice (Transitional and Non-Transitional) CLE credits in New York State. Lawyers admitted to practice in other jurisdictions are encouraged to contact their local MCLE accreditation body to determine if credit will be granted for this program. Please note that the MCLE Board(s) have the final authority on the acceptance and granting of CLE credit for individual programs.
To be eligible to receive CLEs, you must attend and participate. Additionally, you need to complete the information on the CLE sign-in sheet at the registration desk, as well as check in and out at the conference, and complete and submit an evaluation form at the end of the program. CLE certificates are issued by the Cornell University Law School and will be sent to the e-mail address you indicate on your registration form. Contact our office for information about our CLE financial hardship policy.
Special Accommodations
Please notify us at least 2 weeks in advance if you have any circumstances that require ADA accommodations.
This program is being presented in cooperation with Cornell University Law School.
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[IWS] ADBI: Policy Recommendations to Secure Balanced and Sustainable Growth in Asia [27 October 2010]
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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Policy Recommendations to Secure Balanced and Sustainable Growth in Asia [27 October 2010]
http://adbi.org/key-docs/2010/10/27/4120.policy.recommendations.sustainable.growth.asia/
or
http://adbi.org/files/2010.10.25.keydocs.policy.recommendations.sustainable.growth.asia.pdf
[full-text, 18 pages]
Press Release 27 October 2010
Asia Needs a Collective Approach to Secure Balanced and Sustainable Growth – Report
http://adbi.org/news/2010/10/27/4119.asia.balanced.sustainable.growth.report/
TOKYO (27 October 2010) - Asian economies have begun to recover from the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, but many risks remain, including the possibility of a double-dip recession in the advanced economies, the inappropriate timing and pace of withdrawals of macroeconomic stimulus programs around the world, surges in short-term capital inflows to emerging economies, and "currency wars."
Therefore, Asian policymakers need to take a collective approach to secure balanced and sustainable growth, concludes a new policy recommendation report released by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) for the Asian Policy Forum.
The report, "Policy Recommendations to Secure Balanced and Sustainable Growth in Asia," lays out a series of suggested policies to: strengthen the role of Asian regional bodies in global macroeconomic and financial management; reduce the global imbalance; promote inclusive and green growth; advance trade and investment integration in Asia; pursue financial regulatory reform in G20 countries; reinforce regional economic and financial cooperation in Asia; and reform the operations and governance of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The report recommends that Asian leaders attending regional and global summit meetings over the next several weeks adopt a coordinated approach to key issues on the agenda. Regarding current account imbalances, the report urges that Asian leaders pursue structural economic reforms that can expand regional trade and final demand, while allowing real exchange rates to play a facilitating role in the adjustment process. Asia needs stronger regional and global financial safety nets to reduce the need to accumulate foreign exchange reserves.
To promote trade and investment liberalization, Asian leaders should continue to support the Doha Round, while also accelerating trade integration via the consolidation of bilateral and plurilateral agreements into a region-wide agreement, and ensuring that these agreements be as open and non-discriminatory as possible as well as WTO-consistent. The report welcomes recent enhancements of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM), and calls for it to develop into a full-fledged Asian monetary fund and thereby reduce the need for self-insurance via reserve accumulation. Finally, the report calls for reforms of operations and governance of the IMF and the World Bank, including selecting an Asian as the head of the IMF in the near future.
"Asian leaders need to meet and enunciate an Asian program to achieve balanced and sustainable growth. The articulation of such a program will boost confidence and position the region as a leading center of the global recovery," says Masahiro Kawai, Dean of ADBI.
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[IWS] Eurobarometer: EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP - CROSS-BORDER MOBILITY [27 October 2010]
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European Commission
Eurobarometer
EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP – CROSS-BORDER MOBILITY [27 October 2010]
Aggregate Report
August 2010
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/quali/5823_citizenship_en.pdf
[full-text, 59 pages]
Qualitative survey about cross-border mobility
This study allows to draw three overall conclusions which provide a context for the more detailed findings : • The right to free movement that EU citizens enjoy has been fully internalised by the people who are taking advantage of this right. This right is mostly ‘taken for granted’ which affects how respondents see themselves as citizens of the EU; how they plan their moves (often at very short notice, paying attention to administrative aspects of the move only after arrival in the new Member State); and what their expectations are of their rights in other EU Member States. • More than half of the respondents had experienced some form of administrative difficulty after arriving in their new Member State. The main issues that people encountered were the length of administrative procedures and a lack of clarity about what is required from citizens moving to another EU Member State. • EU citizenship is seen to broadly imply having similar rights and obligations in each Member State and as virtually synonymous with freedom of movement between Member States. The rights to mobility (freedom of movement), working and studying in any Member State are clearly implicitly assumed as fundamental rights by EU citizens.
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[IWS] BLS: CHARTING INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS IN MANUFACTURING, 2008 [15 October 2010]
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Charting International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs in Manufacturing, 2008 [15 October 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/fls/intl_hourly_comp_charts.htm
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· Index of hourly compensation costs for all employees in manufacturing, 2008
· Wages and benefits for all employees in manufacturing, 2008
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