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Employers make sure frazzled staff get a break

Volkswagen turns off some of its employees' e-mail accounts 30 minutes after their shifts end. Goldman Sachs is urging junior staff to take weekends off. BMW is planning new rules that will keep workers from being contacted after hours. ...

South African wage strikes threaten to spread

Africa’s largest economy is facing a wave of wage-increase demands and strikes by increasingly militant workers in the motor-industry, auto-manufacturing, construction and aviation industries, renewing a challenge to South African President Jacob Zuma after violent mines strikes last year dented growth and led to sovereign credit downgrades ...