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Bali’s Unemployment Solution: Blame the Unemployed
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Bali’s Unemployment Solution: Blame the Unemployed
In what visitors consider some of the most idyllic places in Indonesia, unemployment isn’t the problem the unemployed are the problem. If you have a college degree and are unemployed you are an “elitist” who will refuse any job involving a “unpleasant odor,” according to Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika, who is also a colonel in the General Police. He […]
Continue reading …Sri Lanka Creates New Human Resources Policy
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Sri Lanka Creates New Human Resources Policy
Still healing following the 2009 defeat of the secessionist Tamil Tigers rebels after three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka’s leadership is trying to unite the nation with public works projects, notably roads, and new policies that offer the promise of increased economic development. Almost as if orchestrated, three signs of Sri Lanka’s potential turnaround appeared […]
Continue reading …Spain’s Unemployment Rate to Hit 23% in 2012
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Spain’s Unemployment Rate to Hit 23% in 2012
With it economy wracked by the European financial crisis, Spain’s unemployment rate will continue to rise in 2012 reaching 23%, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development forecasts. The economy in Spain is predicted to contract again in the fourth trimester of 2011 and within a year will grow by 0.7% with growth predictions for […]
Continue reading …Droopy Rupee Aids India’s Outsourcing Firms
28/11/2011 Comments Off on Droopy Rupee Aids India’s Outsourcing Firms
With the rupee drooping to record lows versus the U.S. dollar, The Economic Times of India reports that major outsourcing firms Infosys Ltd and HCL Technologies Ltd are “poised to profit” from foreign-exchange hedging. During 2011 the rupee has fallen about 14% against the dollar, and is the worst performing Asian currency. A weaker rupee […]
Continue reading …Bermuda’s Economy Minister Talks Job Creation
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Bermuda’s Economy Minister Talks Job Creation
From Bernews.com: Economy & Trade Minister Patrice Minors unveiled a raft of plans and programmes aimed at job creation to put recession-battered Bermudians back to work in the coming months. The Minister touched on the creation of a One-Stop Career Centre for unemployed Bermudians, the introduction of a Job Corps and work permit exemptions and […]
Continue reading …Migrant Workers Flock to India’s Kerala State Searching For Jobs
16/11/2011 Comments Off on Migrant Workers Flock to India’s Kerala State Searching For Jobs
India has it’s own issues with migrant workers as does China, the European Union and the United States. Economically, the India’s Kerala state presents a paradox. The state, where the Malayali language prdominates, has long been a source of migrant workers for the Arab Gulf states. Now Kerala is itself attracting migrant workers, who number […]
Continue reading …Record 200 Million Jobless Worldwide, No Improvement Soon
09/11/2011 Comments Off on Record 200 Million Jobless Worldwide, No Improvement Soon
In a grim analysis issued 1 Nov. 2011, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says the global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that will further delay the global economic recovery and may ignite more social unrest in scores of countries. “We have reached the moment of truth. We have […]
Continue reading …South Africa’s Unemployment Rate Drops to 25% in Third Quarter
08/11/2011 Comments Off on South Africa’s Unemployment Rate Drops to 25% in Third Quarter
Unemployment is bad in many industrialized nations, but nowhere is as bad as South Africa. South Africa’s unemployment rate fell from 25.7% in the second quarter but the nation’s growth appears to be slowing, Statistics South Africa said in a report released in Pretoria. From Bloomberg: The median estimate of five analysts in a Bloomberg […]
Continue reading …Singapore’s Jobless Rate 2%, Claims Hiring Bias Against Locals
03/11/2011 Comments Off on Singapore’s Jobless Rate 2%, Claims Hiring Bias Against Locals
Singapore’s jobless rate declined from 2.1% to 2% in third quarter ending, 30 Sept. 2011, reports the government-controlled Asiaone website. Singapore, a closely controlled island nation-state of 5 million people, had just 45,700 Singaporeans, unemployed in September, Asiaone reports, quoting a Singapore Ministry of Manpower report. Yet, the same website on the same day reports […]
Continue reading …‘Hire Saudi’ Crown Prince Tells His Government
03/11/2011 Comments Off on ‘Hire Saudi’ Crown Prince Tells His Government
Perhaps inspired by the unemployment-fueled uprisings in other Arab nations, Saudi Crown Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, deputy premier and minister of interior, has issued new directives “aimed at tackling unemployment amongst the increasingly large number of Saudi graduates,” according to a 1 Nov. 2011 report in The Saudi Gazzette. The Gazzette reports that specific […]
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