GOVERNMENT must tax the allowances and other benefits earned by ministers of state and Members of Parliament (MPs) and not just their basic salaries, some tax experts have recommended. According to...
Migrant World Cup stadium labourers in Qatar can work 18-hour days -- more than twice the maximum amount permitted by law -- an external report into working conditions has found. And half of the 10...
The pace of hiring by the US private sector edged upwards in March, with employers adding more than a quarter of a million jobs, according to the payroll firm ADP. The survey, covering nearly 24...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ghana Mission Director, Andrew Karas, travelled to the Central and Western Regions from March 27-31 to meet with stakeholders and visit...
Gay rights advocates Wednesday hailed a first-of-its-kind federal appeals court ruling that employers cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation. The ruling Tuesday by the 7th Circuit Court of...
Workers in the textile industry are threatening to demonstrate over the failure of the anti-counterfeit taskforce set up by the government to deal with the proliferation of fake textiles on the...
Employees of the National Insurance Commission (NIC), are demanding the immediate removal of their boss, Lydia Bawa. A three paged petition to the President signed by the employees, who described...
Iceland’s parliament is examining a bill that would require companies to prove they offer equal pay to employees. The law, which is set to become a world first, aims to close the wage gap between...
Like many countries, the UK has made slow progress in reducing its gender pay gap. However, it might do well to look to Iceland, which has come up with a radical plan to get rid of its pay gap...
The pace of hiring by the US private sector edged upwards in March, with employers adding more than a quarter of a million jobs, according to the payrolls firm ADP. The survey, covering nearly 24...
A private legal practitioner Elikplim L. Agbemava, has filed a suit at the Supreme Court seeking clarification on some of the benefits enjoyed by Article 71 office holders as well as other public...
Former deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Joe Aggrey has intimated that Kwesi Appiah will succeed in his second stint as Black Stars coach. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced the...
Workers at BMW's UK plants plan strike action over plans to close the company's final salary pension scheme. Unite the union will call eight 24 hour strikes across four sites, starting on 19 April...
Directors to report to the acting chief executive of the agency All ten regional Directors of the Youth Employment Agency have been asked to proceed on leave, StarrFMonline.com has gathered. The...
The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has encouraged young women undergoing training in electronics, to develop industry-demand skills that will help them participate meaningfully in the labor...
Some workers of TV3 Network Limited, an Accra based private television station, yesterday massed up at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to protest the dismissal of 32 of their colleagues. Although a...
Sometimes I write based upon recent events, but I also write about things I see and hear and things relating to my educational or professional back ground. This time I write out of frustration. I...
Over one hundred young female vocational and technical students have graduated from a 1.08 million Euro programme designed to boost the number of girls and young women in the male-dominated...
Over one hundred young female vocational and technical students have graduated from a 1.08 million Euro programme designed to boost the number of girls and young women in the male-dominated...
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, says the government is committed to increasing employment opportunities for females. That, she said, would empower women to participate meaningfully in the...
