New Immigration Points-Based System To Replace Work Permits.
The Work Permit regime is being phased out during 2008 and 2009 and a new Points Based System ("PBS") is being gradually introduced. Changes to Tier 1 (highly skilled workers) have already taken place and the Tier 2 (skilled workers) system will be changing in November 2008. Until November...

Grant to help boost training in manufacturing sector.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard The Lane Workforce Partnership has received a $275,000 state grant to address shortages of skilled manufacturing workers and encourage students and young workers to enter into the manufacturing sector. Robin Onaclea, business services coordinator for the Workforce Partnership, said the...

Missiometrics 2007: creating your own analysis of global data.
This report represents our twenty-third annual table on global mission prepared for the IBMR each January since 1983. In these 8 pages we examine the total extent of Christ's mission across the world. We also present a method the reader can use to analyze and make sense of the...

Prostitution in Bangladesh: an empirical profile of sex workers.
Abstract The paper explores the profile of the Sex Workers (SW) in Bangladesh; and the ordeals faced by them. 221 randomly selected respondents from three categories of sex workers (Hotel, brothel and floating) were interviewed using both close and open-ended questionnaire. Data show that child prostitution is...

Interaction between objective and subjective occupational conditions affecting physical health of women workers.
Abstract This is an investigation on the interaction between the subjective and objective occupational conditions in affecting the overall health of women workers in industries that have accommodated information technology. The sample consisted of 23 establishments and 630 women respondents. Results show that the most prevalent issues...

On being not Canadian: The social organization of "Migrant Workers" in Canada (*).
Se fondant sur la methode d'ethnographie institutionnelle de Dorothy E. Smith, l'auteure etudie l'organisation sociale de notre connaissance des gens categorises comme non-immigrants ou [much less than] travailleurs migrants [much greater than]. A la suite de l'etude du Non-Immigrant Employment Authorization Program (NIEAP) du gouvernement canadien (1973), elle montre...

The New Japanese Woman, Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan.
The New Japanese Woman, Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan, by Barbara Sato. Asia-Pacific Series. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 241 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). This fine study of Japanese middle class--mostly urban, mainly Tokyo--women during the period between World...

Getting to work in spite of the odds: commuting patterns of African Americans in Rochester and Buffalo, New York.
Differences in the residential, employment, and household characteristics of African Americans and European Americans are well documented, but racial differences in the journey to work are still not well known. Compared to the past, there are now more studies about the commuting behavior of African Americans, but the specific...

Daily wagers in 'worker' definition?
Byline: Bisheshwar Mishra & Sanjay Dutta NEW DELHI: The government is considering an amendment to the Apprentice Act, 1961, which among other things, proposes to change the very definition of 'worker'. The new definition will include contract workers, daily wagers and casual workers for the...

New Rules For Employing Foreign Workers.
The Government is in the process of implementing new immigration rules which introduce a points-based system for migrant workers from outside the EEA who wish to work in the UK. This will replace the current work permit scheme. Employers are required to obtain a licence to sponsor migrants under...