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Abu Dhabi Seeks to Cut Nation’s Unemployment
09/10/2011 Comments Off on Abu Dhabi Seeks to Cut Nation’s Unemployment
Heading recent events in nearby Arab nations, another oil state is quickly creating a jobs program for its indigenous population. In this story from Gulf News, Abu Dhabi‘s Department of Economic Development (DED) says it will reduce unemployment rate to less than 5% by 2030 “by providing job opportunities for UAE jobseekers,” according to Rashid Ali Al […]
Continue reading …10 States Losing the Most Jobs to China
09/10/2011 Comments Off on 10 States Losing the Most Jobs to China
From 24/7 Wall St. China is taking American jobs, labor unions, politicians and economists, have accused for some time. The logic is simple. While a manufacturing job in the U.S. may pay $50 an hour, when salary and benefits are factored in, Chinese factory laborers make little more than a few hundred dollars a month. […]
Continue reading …Work-Share Unemployment Benefits Proposed in Indiana
09/10/2011 Comments Off on Work-Share Unemployment Benefits Proposed in Indiana
From the Louisville Curior-Journal: A Indiana state legislator is suggesting the state adopt a program used elsewhere that allows workers to receive partial unemployment benefits if their employer reduces their work hours to avoid layoffs. The proposal is receiving a cool reaction from a top business lobbyist and the Republican chairman of the state’s unemployment […]
Continue reading …Repealing Florida’s Anti-Dwarf Tossing Law Means Jobs For Dwarfs
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Repealing Florida’s Anti-Dwarf Tossing Law Means Jobs For Dwarfs
From Miami New Times: Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, is tired of Florida’s Big Brother government standing in the way of people getting jobs. Jobs that include being tossed around by drunk dudes specifically, so he’s on a mission to repeal the state’s two-decade-old ban on dwarf tossing. “I’m on a quest to seek and destroy […]
Continue reading …Study: Asian Family Businesses Outperform Peers
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Study: Asian Family Businesses Outperform Peers
Asian family businesses delivered 261% cumulative total return on investment during the past 10 years and outperformed local benchmarks in seven out of 10 Asian markets, according to a new study conduced by the Credit Suisse Emerging Markets Research Institute The Credit Suisse Emerging Markets Research Institute’s inaugural Asian Family Businesses Report 2011: Key Trends, […]
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The Friday, 7 Oct. 2011, Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 103,000 jobs were added in September. The jobs number includes about 45,000 striking Verizon workers returning to work, making the number net new jobs created in September about 58,000. This sluggish job growth continued the trend of the past five […]
Continue reading …Study Finds Internet Job Search Reduces Time Unemployed By 25%
06/10/2011 Comments Off on Study Finds Internet Job Search Reduces Time Unemployed By 25%
A new study conducted by professors from University of Colorado and the University of California finds that conducting and Internet job search reduces the time spent unemployed by an average of 25%. The discovery directly contradicts a 2004 study showing that using the Internet actually prolonged unemployment. “In 2004 the researchers came up with two […]
Continue reading …Steve Jobs Dead at 56, Visionary Apple Founder
05/10/2011 Comments Off on Steve Jobs Dead at 56, Visionary Apple Founder
Steve Jobs Dead: Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder Steven P. Jobs, personal computer pioneer who changed the way people think about and use technology, died Wednesday, 5 Oct. 2011, age 56. It’s hard to imagine how many jobs have been created because of the imagination of Steve Jobs. There are whole categories of employment — desktop publishing, for […]
Continue reading …What Is Obama’s Actual Record on Creating Jobs?
05/10/2011 Comments Off on What Is Obama’s Actual Record on Creating Jobs?
By Braden Goyette, ProPublica — Waht is Obama’s actual record on creating jobs? The U.S. economy has been staggering for months and is still millions of jobs away [1] from recovering from the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the recession. Indeed, the official unemployment rate has hovered around 9% or 10%[2] for more than […]
Continue reading …Ford Reaches Tentative Contract with UAW
04/10/2011 Comments Off on Ford Reaches Tentative Contract with UAW
Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union (UAW) have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year labor contract covering approximately 41,000 UAW-represented employees in the United States. The agreement comes a month after the UAW successfully negotiated a new contract with General Motors. The UAW reached a tentative agreement with GM on Sept. […]
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