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From Public Sector Worker In Portugal To Cleaner In Switzerland
27/09/2012 Comments Off on From Public Sector Worker In Portugal To Cleaner In Switzerland
ILO News– We meet Ana B. – a 50-year-old Portuguese woman – at a café in a Swiss city. Ana has been living in Switzerland for about six months. She moved here to work as a cleaner and caretaker. But Ana is no ordinary cleaner. She is a secretary at a government agency in the […]
Continue reading …Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
By Richard Fry, Pew Research Center— Nearly one out of five (19%) of U.S. households owed student loan debt in 2010. That’s more than double the share two decades earlier and a significant rise from the 15% that owed such debt in 2007, just prior to the start of the Great Recession, according to a […]
Continue reading …Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
21/09/2012 Comments Off on Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
Pew Research Center report- The economic mood is exceedingly glum all around the world. A median of just 27% think their national economy is doing well, according to a survey in 21 countries by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. Only in China (83%), Germany (73%), Brazil (65%) and Turkey (57%) do most people […]
Continue reading …Tenure Up As Employees Stick With Their Jobs Longer
20/09/2012 Comments Off on Tenure Up As Employees Stick With Their Jobs Longer
Median job tenure is up as employees stick with their current employers longer, while the unemployment rate remains high and quality jobs scarce. In January 2012, the median number of years that workers had been with their current employer was 4.6 years, according to new numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is […]
Continue reading …EBSA Launches 401(k) Retirement Savings Fee Disclosure Website
19/09/2012 Comments Off on EBSA Launches 401(k) Retirement Savings Fee Disclosure Website
Your 401(k) has retirement savings plan been costing you money. How much? Until now it was difficult, if not impossible to tell for sure. Now, for the first time, you can find out exactly how much you are paying for 401(k) plan. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has announced a new […]
Continue reading …American Videogame Maker EA Creates 300 New Jobs In Ireland
18/09/2012 Comments Off on American Videogame Maker EA Creates 300 New Jobs In Ireland
American videogame maker Electronic Arts said 18 September 2012 that it is adding 300 jobs at its European customer support center in Galway, Ireland. The move was seen as another positive development for Ireland’s videogame and interactive business. The EA center in Galway opened a year ago and currently employs 400 people. “Ireland has won […]
Continue reading …Crisis In Spain Highlights An Increasing Employment Divide
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Crisis In Spain Highlights An Increasing Employment Divide
ILO News– Unemployment inSpain is rising faster in rural areas than in urban centres and is fuelling social unrest, according to the latest statistics produced by ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS). Unemployment in rural areas jumped from little over 8% in 2007 to more than 26% in 2012, while in urban areas it […]
Continue reading …Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Anti-Union Law As Unconstitutional
15/09/2012 Comments Off on Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Anti-Union Law As Unconstitutional
A Wisconsin judge has struck down key sections of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s controversial anti-labor law, known as Act 10. Circuit Judge Juan B. Colas wrote in his decision that sections of the law “single out and encumber the rights of those employees who choose union membership and representation solely because of that association and […]
Continue reading …Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
13/09/2012 Comments Off on Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
Ford will add 1,200 new hourly jobs and invest $555 million to equip a new state-of-the-art body and paint shop capable of producing multiple vehicles at its plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. Ford is taking over management the former AutoAlliance International plant and is upgrading the Flat Rock Assembly Plant to include a state-of-the-art, fully […]
Continue reading …Execs Reveal 4Q Top Level Hiring Plans, More Confident In Future
10/09/2012 Comments Off on Execs Reveal 4Q Top Level Hiring Plans, More Confident In Future
Twelve percent of U.S. executives say they will be hiring professional-level staff in the fourth quarter fo 2012, according to the Robert Half Professional Employment Report. More than three quarters, 77%, of executives surveyed said they will will make no staff changes. That isn’t universal. Of U.S. executives surveyed, 17% said they will add professional-level staff […]
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