South Korean companies are employing extreme measures in their efforts to keep workaholic employees out of the office during their compulsory annual two-week holiday.
"If an employee does come in…
South Korean companies are employing extreme measures in their efforts to keep workaholic employees out of the office during their compulsory annual two-week holiday.
"If an employee does come in…
Sanyo Electric Co. plans to cut several hundred jobs at its home appliance manufacturing unit by reassigning staff and encouraging early retirement, according to sources.
The planned downsizing at San…
Australia’s unemployment rate stayed at a two-year low of 4.9 percent in June for the fourth month in a row, official figures show.
The May figure was an unrevised 4.9 percent.
Total employment …
UK maternity retailer Mothercare has been lambasted by an activist shareholder for the "highly excessive" incentive payments awarded to its senior directors.
In the company’s remunerat…
Multinational companies in China are increasingly hiring local executives to fill top positions, and the salaries they offer often exceed those given to Hongkongers and are approaching the pay package…
India’s Reliance Retail has hired former operating officer of Walmart China, Rob Cissell, as CEO and vice-president, store operations, Shawn Gray, as COO, said a senior executive of the company …
Tens of millions of migrant workers in China are tied to a residency registration in their home town which largely prevents them from accessing a range of public services once they move to other citie…
If there is one thing China does not lack, it is engineers: every year, hundreds of thousands of them graduate from Chinese universities.
But in May, Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC), the state-owned c…
China’s average minimum wage is likely to grow by at least 13 percent annually over the next five years, the official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Human Resources…
Still reeling from a series of high-profile hacker attacks, Sony has named Andrew House as the president and group CEO of its video game unit, Sony Computer Entertainment.
House, who’s been head…