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Aviation Adapts To A Turbulent World Of Work
18/02/2013 Comments Off on Aviation Adapts To A Turbulent World Of Work
ILO News– Turning an airplane around requires the combined efforts of 12 distinct commercial aviation job functions: gate, ticketing, ramp, freight, operations and baggage transfer agents, pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, aircraft cleaners, caterers and fuellers. These teams may work for several companies, and they do not necessarily like each other. Often they don’t communicate very […]
Continue reading …Business Leaders Applaud Obama Strategy For U.S. Economy
15/02/2013 Comments Off on Business Leaders Applaud Obama Strategy For U.S. Economy
In his State of the Union address, President Obama focused attention on creating good jobs and growth in the U.S. economy. For the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a national coalition of business organizations that together represent more than 160,000 small and medium businesses, the clear commitment to policies of investment versus austerity was welcome. […]
Continue reading …India: Why Is Women’s Labor Force Participation Dropping?
13/02/2013 Comments Off on India: Why Is Women’s Labor Force Participation Dropping?
ILO News– Women in South Asia are far less likely than men to have a job or to be looking for one. While 80% of men in the region are either employed or searching for a job, the number for women is a lot lower: 32%. These low rates are largely due to cultural attitudes […]
Continue reading …Canada Loses Jobs But Unemployment Drops To 7% Lowest Since 2008
12/02/2013 Comments Off on Canada Loses Jobs But Unemployment Drops To 7% Lowest Since 2008
Canadian employment fell in January following 12-months of robust job growth, including two consecutive months of employment increases. Despite this, Canada’s unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 7%, the lowest since December 2008. Canada lost about 21,900 jobs in January. Nearly all of the job losses were full-time jobs in the provinces of […]
Continue reading …ManpowerGroup: Engage Unemployed Youth To Ease Skills Shortage
06/02/2013 Comments Off on ManpowerGroup: Engage Unemployed Youth To Ease Skills Shortage
ManpowerGroup, a World Economic Forum (WEF) strategic partner, is promoting coordinated action in four key to help solve a global skills shortage chronic levels of youth unemployment worldwide. Youth unemployment and skills training were high on the agenda at the recednt WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Global staffing firm ManpowerGroup is a $22 billion […]
Continue reading …Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation Prospects
05/02/2013 Comments Off on Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation ProspectsILO News— Skills mismatches are driving up global unemployment. The Great Recession forced millions of workers to seek new jobs, but they often lack skills that employers are seeking. Several developed economies are seeing increasing numbers of job vacancies but their unemployment rates are not going down. What is happening is that many of the workers […]
Continue reading …Manpower Spots 4 Big Trends Transforming The Wide World Of Work
04/02/2013 Comments Off on Manpower Spots 4 Big Trends Transforming The Wide World Of Work
Manpower Inc., a global employment services firm and strategic partner of the 2013 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, says it has spotted four important trends in the wide world of work. These four World of Work Mega Trends are transforming where, when, why and how individuals and companies work, according to Manpower. “In […]
Continue reading …In Praise of the United States—And The Question Of Education
01/02/2013 Comments Off on In Praise of the United States—And The Question Of Education
Peter Cappelli, professor of management and director of the Center for Human Resources at The Wharton School, writing filed this overview of global employment and education from last week’s World Economic Forum in Switzerland, in his column at heronline.com. One of the answers to unemployment is entrepreneurship that can actually create new jobs. For those […]
Continue reading …Hiring On Hold At Many Small Businesses, Cutting More Than Hiring
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Hiring On Hold At Many Small Businesses, Cutting More Than Hiring
Small business isn’t hiring: That’s one reason the U.S. employment situation isn’t improving. Nobody wants to hire new employees if they don’t have to. Small business owners lack the confidence the current state of the economy to take on new employees. Many businesses are also operating with fewer employees, having been forced to do so in […]
Continue reading …World Economic Forum: Business Leaders Call For Social Goals In Corporate Decisions
31/01/2013 Comments Off on World Economic Forum: Business Leaders Call For Social Goals In Corporate Decisions
Business must include humanitarian social goals in its mission and incentives, or face eventual collapse in the next century. This was the conclusion of a panel of business and civil society leaders that took place Jan. 26, 2013, at the 43rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. “Businesses have more power and money […]
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