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Invest In Youth Employment Or Lose A Generation
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Invest In Youth Employment Or Lose A Generation
ILO News— The world risks losing a generation if it fails to urgently address the youth employment crisis, the ILO said in a Call for Action on the youth employment crisis adopted at its May 30-June 14 2012 International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva. “Unless immediate and vigorous action is taken, the global community confronts the grim […]
Continue reading …Youth Unemployment: ILO Chief Says Less Austerity, More Investment Needed
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Youth Unemployment: ILO Chief Says Less Austerity, More Investment Needed
ILO News– International Labour Organization (ILO) chief Guy Ryder has called for less austerity and more investments to promote a jobs recovery at a time when the youth unemployment crisis threatens to scar “the very fabric of our societies.” Ryder stressed that measures promoting youth employment should be shielded from austerity policies and that spending […]
Continue reading …Youth Unemployment Worldwide: Millions Not Working, Not Studying
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Youth Unemployment Worldwide: Millions Not Working, Not Studying
ILO News— Youth unemployment around the world has driven millions of young people to essentially give up looking for a job, warned the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new report. The youth unemployment rate (at 12.6% in 2011) would be a full percentage point higher if it included the number of young people who […]
Continue reading …Coding for GOOD And A Good Job; Innovative Talent Hunt Bridges Job Skills Gap
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Coding for GOOD And A Good Job; Innovative Talent Hunt Bridges Job Skills Gap
Learn new job skills for free, show it off and get god job—all on the Internet? Here’s the story of an interesting way of training people, giving them usable in-demand job skills people AND then hiring them. This is really a demo for one company’s online education and training platform, but it does demonstrate how […]
Continue reading …WOW’s Awesome Social Media Job Search Advice For 2013
21/01/2013 Comments Off on WOW’s Awesome Social Media Job Search Advice For 2013
There’s free job search advice aplenty on the Internet, most of it worth exactly what you pay for it – nothing. There are also plenty of breathless stories in the media with absurd headlines like this one: 5 Powerful Career Drivers for The Future of Work Why do you need this advice? Why is this […]
Continue reading …Record: More Young Adults In U.S. Finishing High School And College
02/12/2012 Comments Off on Record: More Young Adults In U.S. Finishing High School And College
By RICHARD FRY and KIM PARKER, Pew Research Center— Record shares of young adults in the U.S. are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available census data. In 2012, for the first time ever, one-third of 25- to 29-year-olds in the United States […]
Continue reading …Survey: 53% Of Workers Worldwide Say Changing Jobs Is Key To Career Growth
12/10/2012 Comments Off on Survey: 53% Of Workers Worldwide Say Changing Jobs Is Key To Career Growth
There’s a lot restless workers worldwide. More than half (53%) of the respondents of the Kelly Global Workforce Index (KGWI) survey believe that to develop their skills and advance their careers, it is more important to change employers, rather than remain with their existing employer, according to international staffing firm Kelly Services. The KGWI examines issues of […]
Continue reading …Eight Job Options With Great Pay And Secure Futures
12/10/2012 Comments Off on Eight Job Options With Great Pay And Secure Futures
By ALIDA MOORE, Payscale.com— As long as you’re going to work, you might as well seek a high-paying job. But can you be sure your most lucrative job option will still be around to pay you that big salary five or 10 years from now? It’s more likely to be if job opportunities in your […]
Continue reading …ManpowerGroup Urges Employers Work With Educators To Advance Job Training
09/10/2012 Comments Off on ManpowerGroup Urges Employers Work With Educators To Advance Job Training
International staffing firm ManpowerGroup is advocating that U.S. companies develop the skills of their local populations by collaborating with regional educators The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released 5 October 2012, reported the overall September jobless rate declined to 7.8 % from August’s 8.1% rate. The U.S. private sector added 114,000 new jobs last month, […]
Continue reading …Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
06/10/2012 Comments Off on Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
Feel like you and a lot of people you know are stuck in bad jobs? If you’re employed in the United States, chances are about one-in-four that you have a bad job, according to a new study. If misery loves company then people with bad jobs have plenty. Almost one-fourth of U.S. workers are in […]
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