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Kakao strike threat shows South Korea's workers growing bolder on pay

Lawmakers eye extra benefits for child-rearing households

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is looking into increasing take-home pay for low- and middle-income workers by adjusting the amount of benefits according to income.

Job ad for shepherds goes viral in China exposing labor market strains

More than 700 people applied for two shepherds positions, including urban white-collar employees, factory workers across China and even university graduates.

Samsung semiconductor workers' $400,000 bonus deal: 4 things to know

Samsung workers accept wage deal that averts chip plant strike

The agreement avoids what could have been a damaging strike for Samsung and the tech industry amid shortages in the memory chip sector.

’My job is going’: U.K. workers squeezed out by AI

In the U.K., where services account for around 80% of the economy, AI has become flexible, fast and inexpensive competition for many white-collar workers.

Japan shipbuilding town looks to foreign workers, AI amid labor crunch

The Asian workers keeping Greenland in business

According to Greenland's employers' association, five to 6% of workers on the island are Asian, drawn by the tourism sector.