Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on VOXeu.org, by Alex Bryson, John Forth, Lucy Stokes, Nov 17, 2014.

It is generally agreed that firms can improve their employees’ wellbeing through improvements in job quality – but is it in their economic interests to do so? This column reports research showing that satisfied employees and higher productivity go together. Analysis of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey finds that employee job satisfaction is positively associated with workplace financial performance, labour productivity, and the quality of output and service … // Continuer la lecture de « Does it pay for firms to invest in their workers’ wellbeing? »

in Texts, on Russia Today RT:

• Putin: Supporting Russophobia in Ukraine will result in catastrophe, on Russia Today RT, Nov 16, 2014 … Transcript of the Interview;
• Putin: Economic blockade of E. Ukraine a big mistake, Nov 16, 2014;
• Ukraine scraps human rights treaty for rebel areas, cuts services, freezes banks, Nov 16, 2014;
• Politics blinded them?’ Putin says sanctions against Russia may backfire on Ukraine, on Nov 15, 2014;   Continuer la lecture de « Putin's ARD Interview »

Published on The Guardian, by Daniel Boffey, Nov 15, 2014: study shows gains for wealthier half of population, delivering a blow to George Osborne’s claims on fairness;

A landmark study of the coalition’s tax and welfare policies six months before the general election reveals how money has been transferred from the poorest to the better off, apparently refuting the chancellor of the exchequer’s claims that the country has been “all in it together”.

According to independent research to be published on Monday and seen by the Observer, George Osborne has been engaged in a significant transfer of income from the least well-off half of the population to the more affluent in the past four years. Those with the lowest incomes have been hit hardest.   Continuer la lecture de « Revealed: how coalition has helped rich by hitting poor »

Published on Global Research.ca (first on War is a Crime), by David Swanson, Nov 13, 2014.

The similarities between mass incarceration and mass murder have been haunting me for a while, and I now find myself inspired by Maya Schenwar’s excellent new book Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better. This is one of three books everyone should read right away. The others are The New Jim Crow and Burning Down the House, the former with a focus on racism in incarceration, the latter with a focus on the incarceration of youth. Schenwar’s is an overview of incarceration in all its absurd and unfathomable evil — as well as being a spotlight leading away from this brutal institution.   Continuer la lecture de « How Is a Prison Like a War? »

Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Doaa El-Bey, Nov 13, 2014: On Egypt’s defence of its record at the UN Periodic Review meeting in Geneva.

While the head of the Egyptian delegation to Geneva insisted Egypt had witnessed a qualitative “leap” in the status of human rights, human rights groups have widely condemned Egypt’s record on basic freedoms over the last four years.

More than 300 recommendations, questions and comments from member states were included in the UN outcome report that followed Egypt’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) last week. Reservations were expressed over laws regulating NGOs, human rights, judicial procedures and the right to protest. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, however, was keen to point out that amid the criticisms there were positive remarks. “From at least 100 countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel-Atti told Al-Ahram Weekly. Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: Human rights under scrutiny »