Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Global as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Global: Korn Ferry study reveals company payrolls could soar
A recent report from the major Consultancy Korn Ferry has highlighted a huge potential surge in labour costs over the next 12 years because of the global shortage of high level specialist skills …
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Global: Poverty rate from OECD Data
The incidence of poverty in the world need not trouble international companies, but it may trouble the consciences of individual HR professionals …
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Global: OECD collected gender pay gap updates for 2017
So far, the OECD has collected gender pay gap updates for 2017 in respect to only six countries …
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Global: The best regulatory quality is in the Netherlands – World Bank
Each year the World Bank carries out studies of regulatory quality and rule of law in virtually all countries around the world …
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Global: Deutsche Bank inks $21.9M deal to end 401(k) fee class action
Recently, Deutsche Bank Americas Holding Corporation agreed to pay $21 …
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Global: ILO’s World Employment Social Outlook for 2018
According to the ILO’s World Employment Social Outlook for 2018 the share of world employment by 2030 in Eastern Asia will decline to 23%, but grow to 22% in Southern Asia and 16% in Sub-Saharan Africa …
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Global: Poor wage growth down to ‘superstar’ tech firms
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently reported in its 2018 employment outlook that in OECD countries, on average, real wage growth – after factoring in inflation – stands at 1 …
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UN: Global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration
It is not often that most of us can delve behind the scenes of political decision making and see the real processes at work …
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Global: Budweiser’s parent company is now giving nearly 200,000 employees four months of paid parental leave
The world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev (Budweiser) is rolling out a new global policy on paid parental leave to benefit 200,000 monthly-paid staff in all 52 countries where it operates …
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Exclusion: 104 Countries block women from certain jobs
According to the World Bank 104 countries around the World have laws in place that prevent women from working in certain jobs – including France, Cyprus and China …
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Safety and health: New ISO management systems standard for health and safety in the workplace published
The new ISO management systems standard for health and safety in the workplace has just been published …
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Quality Management: ISO 9004
Many companies have had in place for many years the quality management standard ISO 9001 …
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Management systems: ISO 41001 issued
The international Organisation for Standards (ISO) has just issued ISO 41001 …
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Global: 2018 Global Human Capital Trends
Deloitte’s 2018 Global Human Capital Trends Report has found that almost two-thirds of companies are designing jobs to enable them to incorporate AI and robotics into operations …
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