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Lip Service? Poll Shows Concern Over Older Workers Retiring, Business Losing Skills
09/04/2012 Comments Off on Lip Service? Poll Shows Concern Over Older Workers Retiring, Business Losing Skills
Employers are apparently waking up to the fact that millions of older workers will begin retiring soon, and they’ve done relatively little about it — other than layoff older workers. A joint poll released 09 April 2012 by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and AARP shows that “U.S. employers are ramping up skills training and employee benefits aimed […]
Continue reading …Commentary: Tax Deal Affirms Federal Unemployment Insurance Role For U.S. Workers
20/02/2012 Comments Off on Commentary: Tax Deal Affirms Federal Unemployment Insurance Role For U.S. Workers
By CHRISTINE OWENS — The payroll tax compromise affirms the critical role of the federal unemployment insurance program, on which millions of Americans have relied since the recession began to search for jobs, support their families and contribute to their communities. Despite extreme efforts to dismantle this basic safety net and impose significant new barriers on […]
Continue reading …Spain Has 23% Unemployment, Industrialized World’s Highest
19/02/2012 Comments Off on Spain Has 23% Unemployment, Industrialized World’s Highest
The pain in Spain in plain. Nearly one out every four of its citizens are unemployed. Spain’s unemployment rate reached 22.85% at the end of 2011, meaning five million people were jobless. Spain’s the unemployment rate is currently highest in the industrialized world. Spain is facing a recession in 2012 and jobless numbers will likely […]
Continue reading …What Are The Consequences Of Unemployment?
17/02/2012 Comments Off on What Are The Consequences Of Unemployment?
One portion of a recent Congressional Budget Office report (released 16 February 2012) on high unemployment recounts some facts about effects of unemployment what should seem obvious, but bear repeating. Ultimately it is the human costs of an economy racked by the consequences of Bush-era capitalism gone wild that will take the biggest tool on […]
Continue reading …U.S. Union Membership Grows Slightly In 2011
30/01/2012 Comments Off on U.S. Union Membership Grows Slightly In 2011
Union membership in the United States grew slightly in 2011 up by about 49,000 members, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The percent of unionized wage and salary workers was 11.8%, 14.8 million workers in 2011, down slightly compared with 11.9% in 2010, according to the BLS report […]
Continue reading …Bermuda’s Economy Minister Talks Job Creation
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Bermuda’s Economy Minister Talks Job Creation
From Bernews.com: Economy & Trade Minister Patrice Minors unveiled a raft of plans and programmes aimed at job creation to put recession-battered Bermudians back to work in the coming months. The Minister touched on the creation of a One-Stop Career Centre for unemployed Bermudians, the introduction of a Job Corps and work permit exemptions and […]
Continue reading …Record Low Number of People Moving Reflects Lack of Jobs
17/11/2011 Comments Off on Record Low Number of People Moving Reflects Lack of Jobs
Bad times mean staying put. The percentage of people who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 ─ 11.6% ─ was the lowest recorded rate since 1948. when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting statistics on the movement of people in the United States. The rate, which was 20.2% in 1985, declined to a then-record low of […]
Continue reading …Record 200 Million Jobless Worldwide, No Improvement Soon
09/11/2011 Comments Off on Record 200 Million Jobless Worldwide, No Improvement Soon
In a grim analysis issued 1 Nov. 2011, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says the global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that will further delay the global economic recovery and may ignite more social unrest in scores of countries. “We have reached the moment of truth. We have […]
Continue reading …Half a Million More Jobs Lost if Unemployment Insurance Extension Expires
09/11/2011 Comments Off on Half a Million More Jobs Lost if Unemployment Insurance Extension Expires
Analysis: For many of those seeking jobs in the United States, the reality is that there just aren’t enough jobs, period. As a result, like it or not, unemployment insurance payment are helping to save the nation from losing more than 500,000 additional jobs. Should a Republican-controlled congress decide to not extend unemployment insurance, consumer […]
Continue reading …EPI – Minimal Improvement in Job Prospects in the U.S.
08/11/2011 Comments Off on EPI – Minimal Improvement in Job Prospects in the U.S.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released on 8 Nov. 2011 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the number of job openings increased by 225,000 in September to 3.4 million. The total number of unemployed workers in September was 14.0 million (unemployment data come from the Current Population Survey). Therefore the […]
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