International labour standards

A common problem in the world of accounting is the differing set of standards, the U.S. GAAP and the IFRS. It causes both confusion and turmoil when the United States does business with foreign countries. That is why the IASB and FASB have been working towards converging in an attempt to have universal accounting standards. In the year 2002, the IFRS and the U.S. GAAP came to an agreement to officially begin the convergence process. This agreement was officially established in a Memorandum of…

Should We Stop Child Labour? (Opinion Paper) How would you feel if you ever had to see your 7 year old brother or sister going to work instead of school? In today’s society teenagers or kids usually whine about how much work they did around the house when in reality they only did a bit. They usually don’t think about the kids that are forced in to labouring for many different purposes and cant whine about it because they won’t get there pay or they would get beaten. Have you ever thought why…

development) activities, including the lack of intellectual HRD professionals, higher demand for knowledge workers, and the lack of commitment towards training. Besides, considering the competitiveness and socioeconomic development, national and international level awareness of developing the knowledge-based economy gradually won the places. The human resource management of the globalization trend of economic globalization enterprise management globalization is a trend which cannot be halted,…

The students should know their major before they start college! Choosing a college major is an important part in a student life. It is the major that helps the student to know what to study. It decides the student’s career future. The major helps a student to find his correct career. If a student fails to find his right major it affects his whole life. Sometimes the students do not know exactly what they want to study once they begin their college education. When they have no idea about the…

The world is not perfect. People experience death, torture, and poverty. They cry for help, yet the people who are in need are children. Around the world, children are forced to kill innocent people. Children become tools of destruction not of their own will. In fact, the civil war occurring in South Sudan not only consists of battles between armed men and rebels, but the war also involves around the use of child soldiers ("Terrifying Lives of Child Soldiers [analysis]”). Child soldiers are…

Fast trade is the key of globalization. Through international trade, people have access to products that they can’t find in their own homeland, It might sound beneficial using comparative advantage and being more efficient but when we are living in a developed country and we get all these products for our satisfaction at low prices, we don’t see the other side of globalization and get to experience the hard work that was put in to get a $6 shirt in Wal-Mart. On one hand, globalization is…

essay will address Labour Parties electoral performance in the 2010 and 2015 General Election. There are several factors that affected Labours performance in both the 2010 and 2015 General Elections. For example; the economy, the growth in power for the SNP, party identification, introduction of challenger parties, leadership Add more factors. Considering that Labour are formally a left-wing party means that they tend to care more about society than the economy. As a result, Labour have been…

productivity and performance? Workplace productivity and performance can be both classified at the micro-level of the organisation and the macro-level of national economic performance. Productivity is the quantity of output per unit of input, specifically, labour productivity is measured by output per hour worked (Peetz 2012, p.269). Performance can be assessed in terms of efficiency and equity; efficiency is determined when there is minimal input to attain an output and equity is the fairness…

Majority of those children who do not attend schools are in the workforce, in some areas where the schools are free do not give the children the resources to participate as they cannot provide it. The children do not have the time nor the supplies to be able to attend and have to work for their bread. Children are even sent to construction sites where dangerous conditions force them to work around the safety hazards. These long hours, isolation from a social environment, lack of education,…

or have to join a labor union and not pay anything extra toward a union. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations also known as the AFL/CIO is the largest union in the United States. The AFL/CIO has 56 national/international unions. This is a included of a combined of 12 million workers that are both active and retired. It was founded in December 4, 1955, when the Congress of Industrial Organization and American Federation of Labor merged thus creating the…