France has moved to push employers to reach agreement with unions on more-flexible labor conditions.
Many of these Asian countries don't fare much better than Bangladesh in independent assessments of labor conditions.
Separately, European Union officials said they are considering action to pressure Bangladeshi authorities to improve labor conditions.
The New York Times has an article on changing labor conditions in China that is worth reading.
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The first and most important takeaway is that labor conditions are getting better over there, and this is great news.
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Delivered as an intimate and emotional discussion, Mr. Daisey helped put a new spotlight on labor conditions in factories that make Apple's gadgets.
And the globalization and trade policies have made the labor market change or labor conditions change much faster than the American family has.
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We think consumption growth will weaken now due to a softer labor environment, the first serious downturn in labor conditions since the 2001 recession.
Now that Jobs has passed away and there is heightened scrutiny of harsh labor conditions however, the company will have to shift its strategy.
The Labor Ministry is known to slap companies for slave labor conditions whenever a company or its outsourcing partner does not provide adequate equipment for its staffers.
In a statement Tuesday evening, the EU's trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, and the bloc's foreign-policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said they were "very concerned" about labor conditions in Bangladesh.
In Paris on Monday, Mittal pledged to create a European champion, protect European jobs and respect European labor conditions, and that the combined entity would be based in Luxembourg.
Last year 420, 000 laborers under the age of 18 were employed in cottonseed farms in four states across India, estimates Glocal Research, a consultancy in Hyderabad that monitors agricultural labor conditions.
In Germany, the ranks of the unemployed contracted yet again, this time falling by 17K. While not the decline expected, this figure still seems to indicate that labor conditions in the euro areas biggest economy are at least slowly improving.
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Both Ben Bernanke and vice chairwoman Janet Yellen have made it clear QE will remained tied to a substantial improvement in labor conditions, which should at least include continued payroll growth and an improvement in hiring, the quit rate, and real GDP.
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For too many Western brands, "it's the ugliest race to the bottom because the financial crisis in America and Europe means that people are getting very scared of buying expensive things, " says Sanjiv Pandita, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Monitor Resource Center, which tracks labor conditions across the region.
Looking ahead, consumers are cautiously optimistic about the outlook for business and labor market conditions.
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Overall labor market conditions improved modestly across the Districts, with several reports of temporary hiring.
Labor market conditions have shown some improvement in recent months, on balance, but the unemployment rate remains elevated.
Indicators suggest a deterioration in overall labor market conditions in recent months, and the unemployment rate has moved up.
This strength reflects solid pre-September labor market conditions, profit growth, the strong aggregate household balance sheet, and all-cylinder foreign growth.
The Fed Chairman stressed once again that getting back to more normalized labor market conditions could be a slow process.
Pent-up demand, new household formation, improving labor market conditions and price destruction are all factors which have supported gains in the home sales.
The Committee is concerned that, without further policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to generate sustained improvement in labor market conditions.
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Spanish high-street retailer Zara has been accused of allegedly accepting slave-labor working conditions supplanted by more than 30 of its outsourced plants running in Brazil.
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Measures of labor compensation, though still growing at a moderate pace, have shown some signs of acceleration over the past year, likely in part the result of tight labor market conditions.
The central bank said "labor market conditions have deteriorated, and the available data indicate that consumer spending, business investment and industrial production have declined" since its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee last met.
Our view is that housing is in a recovery phase, but one that will be restrained by the availability of credit, the pace of improvement in labor market conditions, and the overhang from distressed and foreclosed properties.
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Ultimately, says Mr. Hallock, compensation is an inexact science, determined by labor-market conditions, company budgets and individual employees' performance and turnover risk.
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