An employee counts genuine South Korean 50,000 won banknotes in this arranged photograph at the Counterfeit Notes Response Center of KEB Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 14, 2017. The won advanced for the first day in four as top U.S. national security officials sought to damp down talk of am imminent war with North Korea following days…
Twenty-seven African countries, including Ghana, have benefited from specialised oncology training under a partnership between the Merck Foundation and the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). The initiative, which is aimed at strengthening cancer care and addressing the shortage of oncology specialists across the continent, has so far awarded 141 scholarships to doctors, nurses and other healthcare…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Abdul Saboor/Reuters Artificial intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday. Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space…
Discover moreAfrica Travel GuideCyber Security ServicesZimbabwe News SubscriptionIOL South Africa’s Employment and Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth has moved to tighten control over the employment of foreign nationals in the country through proposed amendments to the Employment Services Act. The draft Employment Services Amendment Bill, which has been gazetted for introduction in Parliament, will allow the…
The walkout, which was due to start on Thursday, has been suspended while union members vote on a tentative deal.
Organised labour under the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has raised concern over what it describes as worsening inequality and economic hardship across the continent. Marking this year’s International Workers’ Day, ITUC-Africa warned that Africa is facing a growing imbalance in wealth distribution, where economic gains are increasingly concentrated among…
Africa has a challenge to retain the health workers it needs. The World Health Organization estimates a global shortfall of 11 million health workers by 2030, with Africa predicted to face shortages ranging from five million to six million workers. The shortfall is calculated according to disease burden and health population needs. This is the…
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – After a long day of ferrying passengers to and fro recently, e-hailing driver Nguyen was dejected to find he had spent half of his earnings on fuel. “I drove for around seven or eight hours, making around 240,000 Vietnamese dong [$9.11] and then I paid 120,000 Vietnamese dong [$4.56]…
For decades, the U.S. has imported highly-skilled tech workers from around the world on H-1B visas. But the Trump administration changed the way they are granted. Shanelle Kaul reports on how that is impacting the pipeline of global talent coming to America.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would soon sign an order to pay all employees of the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down for over 40 days. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump said that…
