New Chinese employment legislation, the Labor Contract Law (LCL), is due to be promulgated on January 1st 2008. The response to the law so far has been a kind of fearful anticipation but all of this hand wringing is not going to…
General Motors Corporation has announced that they will be offering buyouts and early retirements to all of their 74,000 hourly workers in the United States who are members of the United Auto Workers union. Is this a good idea, or a very…
With U.S. auto sales forecast to hit a 10-year low in 2008, Detroit’s Big Three carmakers are aiming to rev up sales in emerging markets. Developing nations will account for more than 75% of the auto industry’s unit sales growth over the…
