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Job Search Engine Indeed.com Bought By Japan’s Recruit Co.
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Job Search Engine Indeed.com Bought By Japan’s Recruit Co.
Recruit Co. Ltd., a firm that once brought Japan’s government to its knees in a 1988 scandal, has purchased popular job search engine Indeed.com. Both Indeed and Recruit Co. are privately held companies. No dollar or yen value was given for the purchase. However, published reports speculate Recruit Co. may have paid as much as […]
Continue reading …More Than 2,000 Chinese Employees Riot At Foxconn iPhone Factory
24/09/2012 Comments Off on More Than 2,000 Chinese Employees Riot At Foxconn iPhone Factory
About 2,000 Chinese employees of Foxconn Technology Group, which makes the Apple iPhone, reportedly rioted into the early hours of Monday, 24 September 2012, forcing the plant where they work to shut down. As many as 5,000 heavily armed police may have been involved in stopping the disturbance at the factory in the northern Chinese city of […]
Continue reading …Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
21/09/2012 Comments Off on Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
Pew Research Center report- The economic mood is exceedingly glum all around the world. A median of just 27% think their national economy is doing well, according to a survey in 21 countries by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. Only in China (83%), Germany (73%), Brazil (65%) and Turkey (57%) do most people […]
Continue reading …Fiji Stops International Labour Organization From Investigating Union Complaints Of Repression
20/09/2012 Comments Off on Fiji Stops International Labour Organization From Investigating Union Complaints Of Repression
ILO News- The Fijian government stopped the International Labour Organization (ILO) from carrying out a mission to verify complaints of lack of freedom of association made by local trade unions, the ILO said in a statement issued on 19 September 2012. The government had initially agreed to the ILO mission, but then called it off […]
Continue reading …American Videogame Maker EA Creates 300 New Jobs In Ireland
18/09/2012 Comments Off on American Videogame Maker EA Creates 300 New Jobs In Ireland
American videogame maker Electronic Arts said 18 September 2012 that it is adding 300 jobs at its European customer support center in Galway, Ireland. The move was seen as another positive development for Ireland’s videogame and interactive business. The EA center in Galway opened a year ago and currently employs 400 people. “Ireland has won […]
Continue reading …WNS And Concur Partner, Providing T&E Management and BPO Services
18/09/2012 Comments Off on WNS And Concur Partner, Providing T&E Management and BPO Services
Global business process outsourcing (BPO) services provider WNS, is collaborating with Concur, which provides travel and expense management software services. WNS will offer Concur’s services to its clients. Concur will offer WNS’s transformation, reengineering, project management and data analysis services to clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Concur is offering WNS’s services to […]
Continue reading …Hinduja Global Solutions Buys Deloitte’s Hospital Back Office Outsourcing Business
18/09/2012 Comments Off on Hinduja Global Solutions Buys Deloitte’s Hospital Back Office Outsourcing Business
The U.S. subsidiary of business process outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) is buying the health care back office business of Deloitte Consulting Extended Business Services. HGS expects to expand its outsourcing services to U.S. hospitals. The business that HGS is buying consists of accounts receivable processing services and insurance eligibility verification services. Hinduja Global […]
Continue reading …Crisis In Spain Highlights An Increasing Employment Divide
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Crisis In Spain Highlights An Increasing Employment Divide
ILO News– Unemployment inSpain is rising faster in rural areas than in urban centres and is fuelling social unrest, according to the latest statistics produced by ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS). Unemployment in rural areas jumped from little over 8% in 2007 to more than 26% in 2012, while in urban areas it […]
Continue reading …Apparel Factory Fires Kill Hundreds In Pakistan, Safety Laws Citicized
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Apparel Factory Fires Kill Hundreds In Pakistan, Safety Laws Citicized
Pakistan’s worker safety laws have been criticized after a garment factory fire in Karachi killed 258 workers on 11 September 2012. Another fire the same day in a shoe factory in Lahore, Pakistan, killed at least 25 workers. The fires brought criticism of Pakistan’s government for failing to implement and enforce safety laws in the […]
Continue reading …ILO: Global Youth Unemployment Outlook ‘Bleak’
07/09/2012 Comments Off on ILO: Global Youth Unemployment Outlook ‘Bleak’
‘Bleak’ is the word the Geneva-based International Labour Organisation uses to describe the global outlook for youth unemployment. Global youth unemployment young people will worsen as the effects of the euro crisis spread to emerging economies, according to a new ILO paper titled “Global Employment Outlook: Bleak Labour Market Prospects for Youth.” “Ironically, only in […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill