1.   Government spokesman Aleksandra Jakubowska said the labour ministry had been charged with finding jobs for all those to be laid off at the shipyards.

2.   He called on the KOC workers to inform the labour ministry about the dispute or to call for arbitration by a committee set up by the ministry.

3.   However investigators found that a thousand families of miners working in South Africa had been cheated of their indemnities by the labour ministry in Maputo.

4.   In a statement made available Friday, the labour ministry said the pay hike would come into effect in April, backdated to January.

5.   A majority of Japanese companies plan to break the Japanese tradition of job security until retirement, the labour ministry said in a survey released Tuesday.

6.   At the labour ministry, hundreds of workers fled outside until the quake had passed.

7.   But a separate report released by the labour ministry indicated somewhat brighter job prospects.

8.   China will launch a nationwide crackdown on illegal overseas workers Wednesday, targetting everyone from diplomatic spouses to foreign prostitutes and smugglers, a labour ministry official said.

9.   Eighty-one of them were illegal immigrants while nine were referred to the labour ministry for overstaying and violating their social visit passes, Channel Five station said.

10.   FAWA is defying a labour ministry order declaring its action illegal with Singh maintaining the order itself is illegal.