Interview with Makur Kariom, Director of Reproductive Health for South Sudan

A woman has won nearly 33,000 USD against her former employer for unfair dismissal after testing HIV-positive.

Professor Joseph Stiglitz, an international economic luminary, has stated that the economy of Ghana needs diversification, with more attention being focused on industrial expansion.

A human capital consultancy has gloomily predicted that 100,000 HR professionals could lose their jobs in the forthcoming recession.

HR news and analysis including: the Christian registrar who has won her employment tribunal against Islington council after she refused to officiate over same-sex civil partnership ceremonies how the current economic gloom is affecting human resources departments we report on

The Manafwa district chief administrative officer, John Nyakahuma, has written to his Bududa counterpart, Augustine Bujara, asking him to help recover sh22m from their clerk to council, Mutali Mundesi, which he allegedly misused while he was still serving in Manafwa.

THE Inspector General of Government (IGG) is investigating the appointment of 12 workers of Makerere University, including a senior manager.

Frontline politician, Professor Pat Utomi , has expressed solidarity with the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) whose members are on an indefinite strike, saying the striking teachers' fight was noble.

The Federal Government and striking teachers have begun fresh dialogue aimed at ending the two weeks old face-off over approval of separate teachers salary structure.

The newly appointed South African Nursing Council (SANC) will assist the Health Ministry in dealing with challenges faced by the nursing fraternity and will attempt to restore the profession's public image.

The federal government yesterday called another round of talks with the striking teachers barely 24 hours after it announced it would not pay the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS), a demand that triggered the strike in the first place.

There is no solution in sight in the impasse between Rio Tinto's Rössing Uranium and former employees over a surplus in the company's pension fund, the Economist reveals this week. Hundreds of former workers of Rössing Uranium have since last

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State yesterday asked the Federal Government and Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) to shift ground on the ongoing teachers' strike nationwide in the interest of students and pupils of public schools in the state.

ABIA State Government is to sack no fewer than 2,000 workers from its local government system, the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Ralph Egbu, has disclosed.

RECRUITMENT company Professional Assignments Group (PAG) is identifying skills gaps in the market as a way to grow the company.

The Namibia National Teachers Union (Nantu) and the Namibian Public Workers Union (Napwu) University of Namibia branches have expressed outrage at the suspected unauthorised increases in the salaries of the management cadre of the university.

WOERMANN Brock has stopped a District Labour Court hearing from proceeding because the company was unable to identify some of the complainants, who were dismissed following a 2001 strike.

THE Namibia Public Workers' Union (Napwu) and the Namibia National Teachers' Union (Nantu) have expressed shock at the U-turn taken by the University of Namibia top management in giving themselves salary increases.

At last, primary and secondary teachers in the country, under the aegis of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), have embarked on an indefinite full-scale strike to compel the Federal Government to release a circular agreeing to the implementation of

Well done, to all the students who successfully completed their arduous studies and were awarded their certificates by the University of Zambia at yesterday's graduation ceremony.