The restaurant industry predicted disaster after California instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, but data ...

Cruise ship death: Teen died by asphyxiation resulting from a bar hold, source says "Poison pill" aimed at helping Brandin ...

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are ...

Among the many issues that helped propel Sanae Takaichi to power as Japan’s first female prime minister this fall, perhaps none is more politically charged or more important to Japan’s long-term ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed her eagerness Tuesday to declare an end to deflation in the country, vowing to achieve a strong economy. During a parliamentary session, Takaichi ...

Chile's governing coalition candidate Jeannette Jara led early results in Sunday's presidential race with 26.2% of the vote, trailed closely behind by far-right Jose Antonio Kast, in an early sign of ...

The grandmother of a 12-year-old Thai girl who was rescued in Japan as a victim of human trafficking rejected reports that her daughter forced the girl to work in a sex parlor in Tokyo.

In reality, it is already heavily using illegal foreign workers — foreign wives of foreign residents who cannot work, runaways and illegally moonlighting factory workers. The proposal thus merely ...

Over 1,000 employees of the coffee chain are going on strike across dozens of cities in America. The development comes in the backdrop of Red Cup Day, an event Starbucks puts on every year in which it ...

Japanese rugby's looming cap on overseas players won't stop the competition being a potential sanctuary for R360-bound NRL ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday unveiled plans to increase financial aid from summer levels to lower household electricity and gas bills this winter. The government will "provide ...

Japan’s big three convenience store chains are trying to introduce technology such as self-service tills, artificial ...