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Spain’s Socialists Face Losses Over 20% Unemployment
03/10/2011 Comments Off on Spain’s Socialists Face Losses Over 20% Unemployment
From AFP: In the face of a possible major defeat at the polls, Spanish ruling party’s candidate for prime minister in the country’s November elections, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, has pledged to cut record unemployment and shield education and health care from spending cuts. Rubalcaba, who was interior minister and deputy prime minister, is the Socialists’ candidate […]
Continue reading …English City to Outsource Some Law Enforcement Jobs
03/10/2011 Comments Off on English City to Outsource Some Law Enforcement Jobs
Like many cities in North America, communities in the United Kingdom are struggling to provide public services despite harsh budget cuts. One city in central England is planning to outsource many back office police functions in a bid to save money. From the Express & Star: The West Midlands Police Authority has agreed to enter […]
Continue reading …Saudi Minister Seeks “Saudization” of Jobs Amid Unemployment
02/10/2011 Comments Off on Saudi Minister Seeks “Saudization” of Jobs Amid Unemployment
Saudi Arabia’s Labor Minister is seeking the “Saudization” of the kingdom’s private sector amid rising unemployment and unease following uprisings in other Arab nations. Saudi Arabia’s unemployment rate was 10.8% in July. The country will begin to pay unemployment benefits for the first time from November, Saudi Labor Minister Adel Fakieh, told Bloomberg News. In 2012 the […]
Continue reading …Conservatives in UK Want Jobseekers to Work Harder
02/10/2011 Comments Off on Conservatives in UK Want Jobseekers to Work Harder
From The Guardian (UK) — Jobseekers will have to do more to prove they are seeking work or face losing benefits in measures likely to be announced at the Conservative party conference. At present jobseekers have to satisfy two criteria: putting together a CV and seeking information about a job, which ministers believe are not […]
Continue reading …HR Expert Dave Ulrich Urges Vietnam to Emulate Singapore
02/10/2011 Comments Off on HR Expert Dave Ulrich Urges Vietnam to Emulate Singapore
From Viet Nam News — Ho Chi Minh City — Close cooperation between government, companies and educators is necessary for Vietnam to develop a national talent strategy, according to University of Michigan Professor Dave Ulrich. Speaking at an international seminar on human resources that took place 29 Sept. 2011, held by the PACE Institute of […]
Continue reading …American Companies That Outsource Confront New Legal Risk
01/10/2011 Comments Off on American Companies That Outsource Confront New Legal Risk
The United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a lower court ruling that three defendants in India could not be sued in a Connecticut court based on the fact that they provided services for clients based in the state. The three Indian citizens were accused by Glenwood LLC, a Connecticut-based medical billing company, […]
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