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Global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. has announced it is establishing a Retirement Policy Center and named M. Michele Burns as its executive director. Burns has been chairman and CEO of Mercer, a division of Marsh & McLennan, since September 2006. Mercer provides human resources and related financial advice, products and services. […]
Continue reading …LinkedIn has acquired San Francisco-based IndexTank, a provider of real-time hosted search technology, for an undisclosed amount. LinkedIn and IndexTank say that the acquisition will help improve LinkedIn’s internal search technology. “LinkedIn has exploded over the past few years, and the search team has done a fantastic job at building world-class technologies to keep up […]
Continue reading …Farmland in Vietnam is being gobbled up for development at the rate of 17,000 hectares — more than 65 square miles — per year, putting an annual average 238,000 poorly educated rural farmers out of work in the process. Vietnam’s Communist government reports a “high” rate of rural unemployment of 3.74% during the first 9 […]
Continue reading …The Conference Board Employment Trends Index decreased in September 2011 to 100.95, down from the revised figure of 101.37 in August. The September figure is up 4.4% from the same month a year ago. “Despite the somewhat better than expected employment numbers released on Friday, 07 Oct. 2011,the decline in the Employment Trends Index in […]
Continue reading …Awash in oil, rife with corruption, 3.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS, and simmering ethnic/regional tensions, Nigeria is at least giving a nod toward education and the development of a workforce that will have soemthing to offer in the nation’s post-oil economy other than submitting slavery in return for survival. Political and economic reforms began […]
Continue reading …From the Associated Press via The New York Times: N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern on Monday, 10 Oct. 2011, announced the cancellation of the first two weeks of the regular season after a lengthy negotiating session with locked-out players in New York failed to achieve a new collective bargaining agreement. Owners locked out the players 1 […]
Continue reading …Kyateka Mondo, said the high unemployment rate should not only be blamed on government but also on the youth. From the Uganda Daily Monitor: Kampala, Uganda – As Uganda continues to grapple with high rates of population growth, the level of unemployment among the youth has also shot high to a remarkable 83%, youth group, […]
Continue reading …From the Sydney Morning Herald: Employment growth is tipped to slow from its already sluggish pace in the coming months, as businesses continue to shy away from hiring new staff. The ANZ Bank yesterday (10 Oct. 2011) said the number of job advertisements fell 2.1% in September, the third monthly fall in a row and […]
Continue reading …GOP presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry points to job growth in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his primary accomplishments. But an analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data collected by the Census Bureau shows that immigrants, legal and illegal, have been the primary beneficiaries of job growth in Texas since […]
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