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05/06/2012 - France's new president

France eases limits on foreign graduates' right to work

The French government has reversed its predecessor’s order to officials to restrict the number of foreign graduates taking jobs in the country after they have graduated from French ...

26/05/2012 - France

French worker occupation wins respite but Hollande faces trouble on jobs front

France’s new Socialist government has won a stay of execution for a Unilever factory occupied by workers earlier this month.

12/01/2012

French press review 12 January 2012

Who polices the police? And who polices the police who police the police? Is France's 35-hour week a calamity?

30/12/2011 - Jamaica

Jamaica's first-ever woman prime minister back in office

Jamaica’s left-leaning People’s National Party (PNP) has beaten the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in a general election that sees the country’s first-ever woman prime minister, ...

27/12/2011 - France

French unemployment hits 12-year high

French unemployment is at its highest since 1999 with over four million people looking for work in November.

29/11/2011 - Norway

Norwegian far-right mass-murderer Behring Breivik insane, report

Norwegian far-right gunman Anders Behring Breivik may escape a prison sentence after court-appointed psychiatrists declared him criminally insane on Tuesday.

27/10/2011 - France

Internet campaign stops French hypermarket firing

A deluge of emails, tweets and Facebook protests has forced French supermarket chain Cora to drop an attempt to fire a checkout operator for taking a coupon for a free sandwich left on her till by ...

05/10/2011 - Greece - European Union - IMF

Greek workers strike as eurogloom spreads

Airports were at a standstill, only emergency staff were on duty at hospitals and schools were closed in Greece Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers staged a one-day strike ...

California farmworkers demand legal protection
09/09/2011 - International report

California farmworkers demand legal protection

US Labor Day is an annual public holiday intended to celebrate working people.

01/09/2011

African press review 1st September 2011

A mixed bag in the African press today...

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