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Australia’s unemployment rate falls to 4.9% but underemployment up as lockdowns take toll
14/07/2021 Comments Off on Australia’s unemployment rate falls to 4.9% but underemployment up as lockdowns take tollUnemploymentAustralia’s unemployment rate falls to 4.9% but underemployment up as lockdowns take tollThe economy added nearly 30,000 jobs in June but fewer hours were worked overall as a result of Victoria’s lockdown
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Promising Jobs Data Closes Out Positive First Half of 2021
02/07/2021 Comments Off on Promising Jobs Data Closes Out Positive First Half of 2021
MANHATTAN (CN) — The first six months of 2021 could have been better, but investors are hard-pressed to complain too much, netting double-digit percentage gains in all three major U.S. indices. Since January 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained nearly 14% in value, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained almost 16% and […]
Continue reading …Economic Recovery Accelerates With 850,000 New Jobs
02/07/2021 Comments Off on Economic Recovery Accelerates With 850,000 New JobsThe gain shows the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is picking up pace, but the U.S. is still down millions of jobs compared to February 2020. A shopper enters a Dollar Tree store displaying a now-hiring sign in Buffalo Grove, Ill., last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) (CN) — American employers added a robust 850,000 […]
Continue reading …California Added Over 100,000 Jobs in May, but Labor Shortages Threaten Recovery
18/06/2021 Comments Off on California Added Over 100,000 Jobs in May, but Labor Shortages Threaten RecoverySACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California employers added nearly 105,000 new jobs in May, yet weakened pandemic restrictions that allowed much of the hospitality and entertainment industries to fully reopen didn’t make a dent in the state’s unemployment rate. State officials on Friday pegged the state’s rate at 7.9%, a negligible improvement from April’s 8%. Even […]
Continue reading …August Unemployment Rises In 6 States Falls In 3, Payrolls Unchanged
20/09/2016 Comments Off on August Unemployment Rises In 6 States Falls In 3, Payrolls Unchanged
By Bureau of Labor Statistics Publications In August, unemployment rates were significantly higher in 6 states, lower in 3 states, and stable in 41 states and the District of Columbia. Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 4 states and the District, decreased in 3 states, and was essentially unchanged in 43 states. Source: Regional And State […]
Continue reading …Unemployment: First Time Jobless Claims Soar To 360,000
18/05/2013 Comments Off on Unemployment: First Time Jobless Claims Soar To 360,000
By METEOR BLADES, Daily Kos Labor— First-time claims for unemployment benefits took an unexpected leap for the week ending May 11, rising to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, the Department of Labor reported. That’s 32,000 above the previous week’s revised figure of 328,000, originally reported as 323,000. It was the biggest climb since the aftermath of Hurricane […]
Continue reading …Applications For Unemployment Benefits Fall Again, Now At 323,000
09/05/2013 Comments Off on Applications For Unemployment Benefits Fall Again, Now At 323,000
By METEOR BLADES, Daily Kos Labor— The Department of Labor reported Thursday, May 9, 2013, that seasonally adjusted, first-time applications for unemployment compensation fell again. For the week ending May 4, claims fell to 323,000, down 4,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 327,000, originally reported as 324,000. For the comparable week of 2012, 366,000 jobless […]
Continue reading …Developing Nations’ Youth Employment: Informal, Underpaid, Unemployed
09/05/2013 Comments Off on Developing Nations’ Youth Employment: Informal, Underpaid, Unemployed
ILO News– Two thirds of working age youth in some developing countries are either unemployed or trapped in low-quality jobs, according to the ILO Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report. In six of the ten countries surveyed, more than 60% of young people are either unemployed, working but in low quality, irregular, low wage jobs, often […]
Continue reading …More Job Growth For Women During April, Men Not So Much
09/05/2013 Comments Off on More Job Growth For Women During April, Men Not So Much
Job growth for women improved in April compared to the previous month, according to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) May employment report. Of the 165,000 total jobs added to nonfarm payrolls, women gained 117,000 jobs, 71%. Job growth was slower for men. Men gained 48,000 jobs, […]
Continue reading …March Job Openings Hires Down, 3.1 Job Seekers For Every Job
08/05/2013 Comments Off on March Job Openings Hires Down, 3.1 Job Seekers For Every JobBy ELISE GOULD, Economic Policy Institute— The March Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), released May 7, 2013, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows job openings fell slightly in March to 3.8 million, a decrease of 55,000 since February. While job openings are similar to where they were about five years ago as the economy was […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
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- 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