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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 …Indonesia Clamps Down On Outsourcing After Nationwide Strike
09/10/2012 Comments Off on Indonesia Clamps Down On Outsourcing After Nationwide Strike
After a nationwide strike shut down many industries, workers in Indonesia have won a major victory, forcing the government to enact new rules clamping down on outsourcing. The Indonesian government is imposing tighter restrictions on the employment of workers through outsourcing following the 3 October 2012 nationwide labor protests. New regulations will ban outsourcing companies from […]
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 …SHRM Report: HR Professionals Expect A Little Hiring, Less Firing In October 2012
06/10/2012 Comments Off on SHRM Report: HR Professionals Expect A Little Hiring, Less Firing In October 2012
Another glimmer of positive news on the jobs front came this week from the Society for Human Resource Management’s monthly survey of HR professionals’ hiring plans. About three in 10 manufacturing and service-sector companies plan to hire in October 2012 according to a report from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The SHRM LINE […]
Continue reading …Trends Still Murky But Positive U.S. Jobs Numbers Drive Dow To 5-Year High
05/10/2012 Comments Off on Trends Still Murky But Positive U.S. Jobs Numbers Drive Dow To 5-Year High
Good news on the U.S. jobs market led to a rally for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The U.S. unemployment rate in September fell from 8.1% to 7.8%, the lowest since January 2009. More Americans found part-time work, helping to account for the decline, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Labor announced Friday, 5 October […]
Continue reading …Signs Point To No Or Slow Growth In Global Job Markets In 2013
04/10/2012 Comments Off on Signs Point To No Or Slow Growth In Global Job Markets In 2013
A global economic storm is raging, putting a dark cloud over job growth. Several recent reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other observers of the global and U.S. job markets and economy are likely to struggle to grow, at least during early 2013. Like the economy as whole, employment in the United […]
Continue reading …Infographic: Bring Back The 40 Hour Workweek
03/10/2012 Comments Off on Infographic: Bring Back The 40 Hour Workweek
Bring back the 40-hour workweek. The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, has its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In England, as in other European nations, the rapid development of industrial production in large factories transformed working life. Factory work consisted of long hours and poor […]
Continue reading …In Canada Jobless Youth Left Out As Government, Business Look Abroad
02/10/2012 Comments Off on In Canada Jobless Youth Left Out As Government, Business Look Abroad
A backlash is beginning to appear in Canada against recent changes in wage and immigration rules aimed at attracting workers from the economically depressed Eurozone. Jason Kenney, Canada’s immigration minister, is redefining the nation’s immigration and wage rules. The new rules are expected to go into effect next year. The changes are meant to attract workers […]
Continue reading …Quick Facts About High-Deductible Health Plans
28/09/2012 Comments Off on Quick Facts About High-Deductible Health Plans
By SHEFALI S. KULKARNI, KHN— High-deductible health care plans are no longer a health care insurance novelty—they are becoming mainstream. According to the industry trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, the number of people with high-deductible health plan coverage reached more than 11.4 million in January 2011, up from 10 million in January 2010. A survey from the […]
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