HR Issues

Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, said some jobs will be cut after the company's $5.2 billion sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ``Where job cuts are unavoidable, we will communicate that as soon as practical,'' Dow Jones Chief Executive Officer Rich Zannino said in a regulatory filing today. Employees who lose their jobs will receive severance and...

Only days after a Danish labour court granted freelance journalists the right to be represented by their union in bargaining arrangements a landmark collective agreement has been reached with one of the country’s major publishers. The International Federation of Journalists today welcomed the signing of an agreement between the Danish Journalists’ Union and Aller Press, which controls 80 per cent...

A last-minute agreement between Swedish Journalists' Union SJF and the Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association over new pay and conditions for the country's journalists Thursday averted a major confrontation between more than 5,000 newspaper journalists and the country’s press employers. The deal means that industrial action planned to start mid-day Thursday was called off. The action would have...

The International Federation of Journalists and its regional group the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today welcomed a court victory that gives new hope to thousands of freelance journalists who support union action and collective bargaining to defend their working conditions. The Danish Labour Court has ruled that a union blockade of the magazine publisher Aller A/S because of its...

The ongoing conflict between journalists and newspaper employers has intensified with the Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association (Tidningsutgivarna - TU) extending its proposed lockout to include staff at web publications. Around 100 newspapers have been affected already by the dispute. Arbitration has failed to revive stalled talks over a new collective agreement for some 5,500 newspaper and...

Newspapers that break up their editorial departments and outsource journalistic work to moneysaving information production factories will only hasten the demise of the traditional press in developed countries, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned. IFJ was responding to plans by New Zealand’s biggest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, to outsource editorial production...

New Zealand newspaper publisher APN News & Media has begun outsourcing editorial production work, a plan that will be extended to five daily and three weekly newspapers by year end, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The changes, effective from yesterday, mean that news editing and layout operations at the New Zealand Herald, the country's biggest daily, and a string of regional dailies will be...

(FNJ/IFEX) - Forty-nine journalists working for the past 11 years for Gorkhapatra Corporation, a government-owned media group, were sacked by management without any genuine evaluation of their work on 26 July 2007. Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) President Bishnu Nisthuri said that management dismissed the journalists on the basis of its political interests. The management of the...

NEW DELHI, July 26: The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has noted with consternation and alarm the decision reportedly taken by the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (Citu) in West Bengal to suspend distribution of newspapers in Kolkata on 8 August. In a Press release issued in the Capital today, INS president Mr Hormusji N. Cama stated: “This decision, we are informed, has been taken to extend...

New Delhi, July 24: The national wage boards for working journalists and non-working journalists of newspapers and news agencies will hold their first meeting at Kochi in Kerala on August two. During the meeting, the boards will meet representatives of newspaper establishments, working journalists, non-journalist newspaper employees and other stakeholders interested in the fixation/ revision of...