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How to Manage Your E-Reputation And Stay Employed
14/11/2011 Comments Off on How to Manage Your E-Reputation And Stay Employed
Anything you say and do on the Internet can and will be used against you. Managing your e-reputation is critical in an era when anyone with a will and an Internet connection can gather a vast amount of details about nearly anyone in no time at all. This is increasingly true when it comes to […]
Continue reading …Best Places in the U.S. for Military Retirees to Start Second Careers
14/11/2011 Comments Off on Best Places in the U.S. for Military Retirees to Start Second Careers
A new study by financial services firm USAA and Military.com finds that Nassau, N.Y., is the best metro area for military retirees to start their post-service careers. The study, “Best Places for Military Retirement: Second Careers” lists the U.S. metro areas most likely to offer employment opportunities for military retirees, while maximizing military benefits and […]
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 …Obama White House & Google Create Veterans Job Bank
09/11/2011 Comments Off on Obama White House & Google Create Veterans Job Bank
Working directly with Google and and job post aggregator Simply Hired, the Obama administration has launched launched the Veterans Job Bank, a new search tool designed to help connect veterans with employers. The Veterans Job Bank works by bringing jobs listings directly to veterans—instead of the other way around—via a search widget that provides a single window […]
Continue reading …EPI – Minimal Improvement in Job Prospects in the U.S.
08/11/2011 Comments Off on EPI – Minimal Improvement in Job Prospects in the U.S.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released on 8 Nov. 2011 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the number of job openings increased by 225,000 in September to 3.4 million. The total number of unemployed workers in September was 14.0 million (unemployment data come from the Current Population Survey). Therefore the […]
Continue reading …Coping With Unemployment’s Emotional Toll
04/11/2011 Comments Off on Coping With Unemployment’s Emotional Toll
Few things in life can hit you as hard emotionally than being unemployed. Even if you’ve been laid off before or you knew the layoff was coming, the act of being rendered jobless stings. Fortunately there are many positive ways to cope with emotional toll that come with unemployment. Here’s one how-to take from four […]
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 …Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia
03/11/2011 Comments Off on Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia
According to the International Monetary Fund, assessing unemployment in the vast region of Caucasus and Central Asia is difficult because there is no reliable information. These are potential hot spots for social and political unrest. Creating job in this region could help keep the peace Masood Ahmed writes on iMFDirect blog: It is difficult to […]
Continue reading …Malaysian Labor Unrest Brings Government Warning
01/11/2011 Comments Off on Malaysian Labor Unrest Brings Government Warning
From Free Malaysia Today: Malayasian Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam today, 1 Nov. 2011, warned workers not to picket against amendments to the Employment Act 1955. “If they picket during working hours, it would be illegal and action can be taken against them by their employers for disrupting the working environment,” said Subramaniam. “However, […]
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