Workplace Issues : News brief

"If everything becomes dominated by the carbon agenda we could look back in five years time and realise there was a need for a more balanced approach."

Green-collar jobs offer new opportunity for low-income and working-class people.

Millions of Asian workers producing goods sold in the U.S. are trapped in servitude.

YouGov survey finds only a fifth of UK employees have access to green training at work.

More investment in math and science education and a more liberal policy toward skilled foreign workers.

Employers in almost all sectors are postponing or canceling plans to hire new workers.

2005 Accident; Transpave Inc. to learn penalty for disabling safety device.

City officials have called on two dozen companies that have collectively received billions of dollars of local pension investments to ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identification. City Comptroller William Thompson and the New York City Pension Funds asked these companies to amend their policies, but have no plans to withdraw investments if the companies do not comply.

Staff at a Japanese marketing company can take paid time off after a bad break-up with a partner, with more "heartache leave" on offer as they get older.

Bullying in the workplace is widespread in the UK, affecting 80 percent of employees, with a third of employees so unhappy they had considered leaving their job, according to the charity the Samaritans.