BEIJING: China’s state-run trade union, which came under fire for not taking up workers’ rights issue when they went on flash strikes demanding higher wages last year, has floated the idea of introducing collective bargaining to address labour disputes.
The All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is planning to introduce collective wage negotiation, meaning talks between union representatives and heads of enterprises in all enterprises over the next three years, to reduce labour disputes, said Zhang Jianguo, head of the collective contract department of the Federation. “Nationwide experience has suggested that collective wage negotiation not only reduces labour disputes, but also helps workers’ wages rise,” he told China Daily.
The idea is being floated in the backdrop of spate of strikes by workers in a number of factories including that of Toyota and Honda automobile units demanding higher wagers which were unheard of during the past three decades ever since the Communist country began introducing economic reforms. The cheap labour environment with no unions other than ACFTU attracted the billions of dollars of Foreign Direct Investment, (FDI) turning China into world’s factory.
ACFTU claims that the collective wage negotiation introduced in the early 1990s helped labour as about 1.25 million collective contracts covering more than two million enterprises and almost 162 million employees. pti
BEIJING: China’s state-run trade union, which came under fire for not taking up workers’ rights issue when they went on flash strikes demanding higher wages last year, has floated the idea of introducing collective bargaining to address labour disputes.
The All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is planning to introduce collective wage negotiation, meaning talks between union representatives and heads of enterprises in all enterprises over the next three years, to reduce labour disputes, said Zhang Jianguo, head of the collective contract department of the Federation. “Nationwide experience has suggested that collective wage negotiation not only reduces labour disputes, but also helps workers’ wages rise,” he told China Daily.
The idea is being floated in the backdrop of spate of strikes by workers in a number of factories including that of Toyota and Honda automobile units demanding higher wagers which were unheard of during the past three decades ever since the Communist country began introducing economic reforms. The cheap labour environment with no unions other than ACFTU attracted the billions of dollars of Foreign Direct Investment, (FDI) turning China into world’s factory. ACFTU claims that the collective wage negotiation introduced in the early 1990s helped labour as about 1.25 million collective contracts covering more than two million enterprises and almost 162 million employees. pti
TOI NEWS:A new research by the University of Georgia has provided new clues on surviving to be 100 years old, finding that how we feel about ourselves and our ability to adapt to an accumulation of challenging life experiences may be as or more important than health factors.
Researchers used information collected as part of the Georgia Centenarian Study, one of only two centenarian studies in the country, to measure psychological and social factors in addition to genetics and health of so-called expert survivors.
Two hundred forty-four people aged 100 years or older were studied between 2001 and 2009. The research found that critical life events and personal history, along with how people adapt to stressful situations and cope with them are essential to explaining successful aging.
“Understanding health in these terms has huge implications for quality of life,” said Leonard Poon, director of the Institute of Gerontology in the UGA College of Public Health and lead author of the study.
“What is happening to you matters, but more importantly, it is your perception of what is happening to you that is really important for your individual health,” he added.
A majority of past research on the oldest of the old focused on health factors, but the researchers found that centenarians’ feelings about their own health, well-being and support systems, rather than measures such as blood pressure and blood sugar are stronger predictors of survival, said Poon.
Personality also determined how well the centenarians reacted to life stress and change, and therefore whether they were as happy in their old age as they were when young.
Healthy 100-year-olds had personalities described as open and conscientious. Neurotic personalities tended to be less healthy, the study found.
An individual confronted with a stressful situation can either find a quick emotional solution or ruminate on the problem, explained Poon.
“One is very destructive in terms of general well-being and the other is very adaptive,” he said.
Other research drawing from the Georgia Centenarian Study compared physical function of the elderly living in the community with those living in retirement facilities and found that physical activity decreased by approximately one-third when community residents moved to retirement facilities.
Poon added that one phenomenon that occurs all over the world is that women live longer than men.
“Our next phase is to go to four different countries where there are different gender survival ratios and see why they are the same, why they are different and what makes women live longer than men,” said Poon.
The research is published in the current edition of the journal Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research .
A new research by the University of Georgia has provided new clues on surviving to be 100 years old, finding that how we feel about ourselves and our ability to adapt to an accumulation of challenging life experiences may be as or more important than health factors.
Researchers used information collected as part of the Georgia Centenarian Study, one of only two centenarian studies in the country, to measure psychological and social factors in addition to genetics and health of so-called expert survivors.
Two hundred forty-four people aged 100 years or older were studied between 2001 and 2009. The research found that critical life events and personal history, along with how people adapt to stressful situations and cope with them are essential to explaining successful aging.
“Understanding health in these terms has huge implications for quality of life,” said Leonard Poon, director of the Institute of Gerontology in the UGA College of Public Health and lead author of the study.
“What is happening to you matters, but more importantly, it is your perception of what is happening to you that is really important for your individual health,” he added.
A majority of past research on the oldest of the old focused on health factors, but the researchers found that centenarians’ feelings about their own health, well-being and support systems, rather than measures such as blood pressure and blood sugar are stronger predictors of survival, said Poon.
Personality also determined how well the centenarians reacted to life stress and change, and therefore whether they were as happy in their old age as they were when young.
Healthy 100-year-olds had personalities described as open and conscientious. Neurotic personalities tended to be less healthy, the study found.
An individual confronted with a stressful situation can either find a quick emotional solution or ruminate on the problem, explained Poon.
“One is very destructive in terms of general well-being and the other is very adaptive,” he said.
Other research drawing from the Georgia Centenarian Study compared physical function of the elderly living in the community with those living in retirement facilities and found that physical activity decreased by approximately one-third when community residents moved to retirement facilities.
Poon added that one phenomenon that occurs all over the world is that women live longer than men.
“Our next phase is to go to four different countries where there are different gender survival ratios and see why they are the same, why they are different and what makes women live longer than men,” said Poon.
The research is published in the current edition of the journal Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research .
TOI NEWS:The New Year began on an inauspicious note for Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan on Monday.
Both Bollywood superstars left Dubai and arrived at Mumbai simultaneously, within a minute of each other, prompting passengers at the airport and people outside come to receieve them to believe that the actors had buried their rivalry and were back to being friends.
It was high drama at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport that night. First King Khan showed up outside at 9.23 pm, then seconds later at 9.24 pm, the King of 2010 – Dabangg Salman strode out. People gaped, then quickly asked other Mumbai returnees streaming out if they had been travelling on the same flight as the actors and if SRK and Sallu had been spotted talking to each other.
Of course, nothing like this happened. Both Khans travelled on chartered flights. And, their almost simultaneous departure caused excitement at the Dubai airport as well. They were mobbed by Middle Eastern and Indian fans, hounded for autographs and besieged to pose for photographs. Then the drama picked up in Mumbai when SRK walked out with wife Gauri and son Aryan and Salman with father Salim and mother Helen. Strangely, even both actors’ cars were parked together. But this was one instance when the Gods proposed, but men disposed…
Gurgaon, Jan 4 (PTI) Vikram Pandit, the Indian-born global CEO of Citibank, and its Chairman William R Rhodes, were today named in an FIR filed with police accusing the bank of cheating and criminal breach of trust in connection with the Rs 300 crore fraud here.
Several high networth individuals have also complained that their securities were encashed without their knowledge in the fraud allegedly masterminded by the Gurgaon branch relationship officer Shivraj Puri.
Local police registered a case on the basis of an FIR naming Pandit and 10 other officials filed by a high networth individual (HNI) Sanjeev Aggarwal, Managing Director, Helion Advisors, that accused the top executives of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The others who have been named in the FIR include Citibank’s senior officials CFO John Gerspach and COO Doughlas Peterson (both based in New York).
Gurgaon, Jan 4 (PTI) Vikram Pandit, the Indian-born global CEO of Citibank, and its Chairman William R Rhodes, were today named in an FIR filed with police accusing the bank of cheating and criminal breach of trust in connection with the Rs 300 crore fraud here.
Several high networth individuals have also complained that their securities were encashed without their knowledge in the fraud allegedly masterminded by the Gurgaon branch relationship officer Shivraj Puri.
Local police registered a case on the basis of an FIR naming Pandit and 10 other officials filed by a high networth individual (HNI) Sanjeev Aggarwal, Managing Director, Helion Advisors, that accused the top executives of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The others who have been named in the FIR include Citibank’s senior officials CFO John Gerspach and COO Doughlas Peterson (both based in New York).
Jaipur, Jan 4 (PTI) Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla has agreed to hold talks with the Rajasthan government on the community’s demand for reservation in state jobs.
“The Chief Minister has invited me so I am coming to Jaipur to hold the next round of talks. I will explore the possibilities (to end the deadlock),” Bainsla told PTI over phone.
“My delegation held a meeting with the state ministers at Jaipur yesterday and the community is of the view that the talks should move in a more positive direction,” he said.
“Before meeting any minister or the government representative, I will discuss the issue with my delegation which is staying in Jaipur,” he said.
G S Sandhu, Principal Secretary, Urban Development, said the next round of talks will be held between Bainsla and the committee of ministers comprising Energy Minister Jitendra Singh, Home Minister Shanti Dhariwal and Transport Minister B K Sharma.
Jaipur, Jan 4 (PTI) Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla has agreed to hold talks with the Rajasthan government on the community’s demand for reservation in state jobs.
“The Chief Minister has invited me so I am coming to Jaipur to hold the next round of talks. I will explore the possibilities (to end the deadlock),” Bainsla told PTI over phone.
“My delegation held a meeting with the state ministers at Jaipur yesterday and the community is of the view that the talks should move in a more positive direction,” he said.
“Before meeting any minister or the government representative, I will discuss the issue with my delegation which is staying in Jaipur,” he said.
G S Sandhu, Principal Secretary, Urban Development, said the next round of talks will be held between Bainsla and the committee of ministers comprising Energy Minister Jitendra Singh, Home Minister Shanti Dhariwal and Transport Minister B K Sharma.
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp’s Hotmail service, the world’s most-used online email system, is back to normal operations after some users over the weekend lost access to emails or found them transferred to a deleted mail folder.
The world’s largest software company, which has more than 360 million Hotmail users, said it has “restored full email access and recovered content to those who were affected.”
Microsoft’s online message boards and Twitter were abuzz with complaints about the Hotmail glitch. Microsoft said on Monday it was still investigating the root cause of the problem, which started four days ago.
“Beginning on December 30, we had an issue with Windows Live Hotmail that impacted 17,355 accounts,” Chris Jones, a Microsoft executive, said in a company blog. “Customers impacted temporarily lost the contents of their mailbox through the course of mailbox load balancing between servers.”
He said Microsoft will take steps to prevent a similar occurrence. “We’re very sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused to you, our customers and partners,” he added.
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp’s Hotmail service, the world’s most-used online email system, is back to normal operations after some users over the weekend lost access to emails or found them transferred to a deleted mail folder.
The world’s largest software company, which has more than 360 million Hotmail users, said it has “restored full email access and recovered content to those who were affected.”
Microsoft’s online message boards and Twitter were abuzz with complaints about the Hotmail glitch. Microsoft said on Monday it was still investigating the root cause of the problem, which started four days ago.
“Beginning on December 30, we had an issue with Windows Live Hotmail that impacted 17,355 accounts,” Chris Jones, a Microsoft executive, said in a company blog. “Customers impacted temporarily lost the contents of their mailbox through the course of mailbox load balancing between servers.”
He said Microsoft will take steps to prevent a similar occurrence. “We’re very sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused to you, our customers and partners,” he added.
