France's most powerful labor union federations agreed to meet Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin today to discuss the country's hotly contested new employment law as hundreds of thousands of students across France marched in protest against it, frequently clashing with the police.
Since protests began in March against François Hollande's contested changes to employment legislation, tension between police and demonstrators has been growing.
The wealthy for-profit education corporation owners at APSCU got an additional jolt when the Department of Education on Thursday starting sending them information about their performance with respect to the hotly-contested "gainful employment" rule that could, in a few years, cut off federal aid to programs that consistently leave students unable to repay their loans.
At present some 30% of layoffs, even consensual ones, are contested by employees and go before an employment tribunal; 70% of these go against the employers, according to MEDEF, their federation.
Thus, although the evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages remains contested, this overview shows that many types of studies continue to show disemployment effects of minimum wages, and helps clarify what types of studies do and do not lead to this conclusion.
It would render generations of U.S.-born undocumented children vulnerable to a variety of discriminations--their rights to education, employment and a breadth of social services repeatedly contested, if not altogether denied.
The question of whether living wage laws reduce employment of covered workers is probably the central question that has been contested in the research literature.4.4
Yet from the late 1960s, when looming labor shortages prompted the country to look into ways of raising female employment rates, the idea of reserving part of the parental leave for fathers was hotly contested.
This assumption can be contested especially in African countries where the formal sectors are small and hence the proportion of people in formal employment is small.
An election race that hinges on the state of America's economy was dominated by the release of new employment figures yesterday which allowed both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to lay a final claim to the eagerly contested mantle of job-creator-in-chief.
