A Danish study, supported by the Integration Ministry, has found that many immigrants in the workplace have problems interpreting the less concrete communication forms used by their Danish colleagues. Danish workplace culture is often difficult for employees of foreign background to understand, and their unknowing failure to follow accepted behaviours can discourage them. The study […]
With the support of China, Russia and Cuba, Moslem and Arab states pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion. The Council expresses “deep concern at attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human rights violations.
To date, flexible working law in the UK has enabled parents with a child under 6 or a disabled child under 18 to make a request for flexible working, and places a duty on employers to consider such requests seriously and only reject them for good business reasons. But as of 6 April 2007 the […]
Companies in France have begun scouring the country’s minority communities for untapped talent, as changing markets make a diverse work force a valuable asset. But beyond the business benefits, the effort could help ease the economic disparities that were a major factor in last year’s nationwide riots. Part of the problem is that affirmative action […]
The concerns about the number of sick days being taken by their employees, have led over a quarter of European employers to offer incentives to reduce sickness absence. These incentives include bonuses and vouchers but opinion on the appropriateness of such incentives is mixed.
“I want to address myself to the women,” Ségolène Royal declared a few days before the elections in France. “I need the women’s vote,” she said,“ it is time to put an end to centuries of injustice, of marginalization.” She has been much criticised by her political antagonists, as well as columnists, for addressing the […]
Migration will not provide a long-term solution to Europe’s ageing crisis. Instead, policymakers must focus on getting people to have more babies while working ‘longer and better’, business leaders declared at the European Business Summit. Soon, more than half of the European population will be over 40.
In a report based on figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers Monks pay database, women are increasingly leaving senior management positions. The number of female senior managers working in major UK businesses has taken a sharp fall of over 40% in the last five years. In 2002, some 38% of senior manager level posts in the FTSE 350 […]
“Arbeitsloser Jongleur in Not” steht auf dem Schild, ein Mann dahinter. Er jongliert in der Einkaufsstraße – mit einem Arm. Der Jongleur ist gehandicapt, ihm fehlt ein zweiter Unterarm. Die Menschen in der Einkaufsstraße starren ungläubig, sie tuscheln über den einarmigen Jongleur – und tappen damit fast drehbuchgemäß in die Falle – obwohl sie nicht […]
Eine erste Klage gegen das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz ist in erster Instanz gescheitert. Das Arbeitsgericht Frankfurt wies eine Beschwerde von Piloten zurück, die eine Altersgrenze von 60 Jahren als Diskriminierung empfanden. Wie die Richter feststellten, sei das Mittel der Altersgrenze ebenso wie die konkrete Begrenzung auf 60 Jahre auf den Schutz von Leib und Leben der […]
