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IBM In $1 Billion Brazilian Outsourcing Deal With EBX Group
05/04/2012 Comments Off on IBM In $1 Billion Brazilian Outsourcing Deal With EBX Group
IBM has inked a $1 billion, 10-year outsourcing deal and with Brazilian industrial conglomerate EBX Group to run information EBX’s technology operations and invest in its technology division. EBX Group is a holding company owned by Brazil’s most wealthy individual, Eike Batista. EBX subsidiaries include mining, an oil and gas provider, a transportation company and […]
Continue reading …Half Million U.S. Workers Employed By Apple Job Ecosystem
05/03/2012 Comments Off on Half Million U.S. Workers Employed By Apple Job Ecosystem
Stung by reports of abusive working conditions at a Chinese subcontractor, Apple has released a report claiming the company is responsible for creating more than 500,000 jobs worldwide. In a January report about its suppliers in Asia, Apple said it found examples of subcontractors employing children and forcing employees to work exceedingly long hours. Apple […]
Continue reading …Analysis – Business Education, MBA Programs Helped Trash The Economy
20/02/2012 Comments Off on Analysis – Business Education, MBA Programs Helped Trash The Economy
By MARGARET HEFFERNAN– Business schools educate armies of bankers, investors and corporate finance executives. How come they don’t feel responsible for the financial havoc that has ensued? After the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, and then again, following 2008’s financial crisis, there was a brief flurry of soul-searching among business schools. Then poof — gone. […]
Continue reading …US Outlook: Job Market Improves, But Will It Last?
16/02/2012 Comments Off on US Outlook: Job Market Improves, But Will It Last?
In the most recent sign the job market in the US is steadily improving, the number of people on unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest point in almost four years last week, according to a US Department of Labor report issued 16 February 2012. In the unemployment report, the Labor Department reports weekly applications for […]
Continue reading …Information Technology Employment At All-Time High
14/02/2012 Comments Off on Information Technology Employment At All-Time High
Information technology employment in the United States reached an all-time high in January 2012, gaining 13,300 jobs for a total of 4,107,700, according to TechServe Alliance. January’s record surpasses the previous all-time high set just as the financial crisis was beginning in September 2008 when information technology employment reached 4,088,600, according to the organization. On […]
Continue reading …How The Economic Stimulus Recharged Electric Car Biz And Created Jobs
03/02/2012 Comments Off on How The Economic Stimulus Recharged Electric Car Biz And Created Jobs
By MICHAEL GRABELL/ProPublica–A common criticism of President Obama’s $800 billion economic stimulus package has been that it failed to produce anything – that while the New Deal built bridges and dams, all the stimulus did was fill some potholes and create temporary jobs. Don’t tell that to Annette Herrera. She was 50 when the auto […]
Continue reading …Economic Upswing Means Chance to Change Careers
22/01/2012 Comments Off on Economic Upswing Means Chance to Change Careers
Are you ready for a career change? Now may be the time. With the national unemployment rate down to 8.5%, the lowest level in 33 months, opportunities may be at hand. Career coach and veteran human resources executive Lee Miller wrote an article in New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger offering insight into the improving job landscape. […]
Continue reading …Bali’s Unemployment Solution: Blame the Unemployed
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Bali’s Unemployment Solution: Blame the Unemployed
In what visitors consider some of the most idyllic places in Indonesia, unemployment isn’t the problem the unemployed are the problem. If you have a college degree and are unemployed you are an “elitist” who will refuse any job involving a “unpleasant odor,” according to Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika, who is also a colonel in the General Police. He […]
Continue reading …Good News Techies: Hiring for IT Jobs Rising
28/11/2011 Comments Off on Good News Techies: Hiring for IT Jobs Rising
If you know tech, you’re looking good to employers. Analysts predict that IT hiring will continue to rise in 2012 – for the third straight year. And with a humming technology side of business, logic and hope both say that’s gotta make things run faster, smoother, better for all sectors. The numbers showing happy days […]
Continue reading …Positive Economic Indicators Pointing to Better Job Market Into 2012
21/11/2011 Comments Off on Positive Economic Indicators Pointing to Better Job Market Into 2012
It isn’t exactly time to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again” but a number of economic indicators point to an improving U.S. job market during the next few months. The week ending 12 Nov. 2011, fewer Americans than forecast filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance. Applications for unemployment benefits declined 5,000 in the week ended […]
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