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Pew Global Attitudes Project- The economic euphoria in India during the last few years, inspired by the country’s seemingly inevitable march toward double-digit growth, has suddenly soured. Although still relatively upbeat compared with many other countries, the Indian public’s confidence in their country’s direction and future economic growth has declined significantly compared with just a […]
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 …Air Canada Announces Details Of Job-Creating Expansion
02/10/2012 Comments Off on Air Canada Announces Details Of Job-Creating Expansion
On Tuesday, 2 October 2012, Air Canada took the wraps off plans to create combine it Air Canada Vacations division with a new low-cost airline. Air Canada recently announced it would be hiring at least 900 new employees to staff the new venture. Canada’s largest airline says it will have the as-yet unnamed low-cost carrier […]
Continue reading …Study: US$42 Billion In Engineering R&D Outsourced To India By 2020
02/10/2012 Comments Off on Study: US$42 Billion In Engineering R&D Outsourced To India By 2020
At least US $42 billion worth of research and development and product engineering work will be outsourced to India by 2020, and will grow at 14% annually, according to a new study from Zinnov Management Consulting. “The Indian captive landscape has grown to 874 centers as compared to 836 in fiscal 2011,” Pari Natarajan, Zinnov’s […]
Continue reading …Ranks Of Europe’s Low-Paid Public Sector Workers Increase
28/09/2012 Comments Off on Ranks Of Europe’s Low-Paid Public Sector Workers Increase
Low Paid Public Sector Workers In Europe Greece Impoverishment of public employees (fall in wages by 15-20% in 2011 and new cuts by an additional -15% in 2012) due to the abolition of 13th and 14th month salaries, and a cut in the minimum wage. Hungary In 2010, 55% of public employees with less […]
Continue reading …Job Search Engine Indeed.com Bought By Japan’s Recruit Co.
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Job Search Engine Indeed.com Bought By Japan’s Recruit Co.
Recruit Co. Ltd., a firm that once brought Japan’s government to its knees in a 1988 scandal, has purchased popular job search engine Indeed.com. Both Indeed and Recruit Co. are privately held companies. No dollar or yen value was given for the purchase. However, published reports speculate Recruit Co. may have paid as much as […]
Continue reading …Crisis In Spain Highlights An Increasing Employment Divide
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Crisis In Spain Highlights An Increasing Employment Divide
ILO News– Unemployment inSpain is rising faster in rural areas than in urban centres and is fuelling social unrest, according to the latest statistics produced by ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS). Unemployment in rural areas jumped from little over 8% in 2007 to more than 26% in 2012, while in urban areas it […]
Continue reading …Stronger U.S. Job Market Seen, Global Unemployment Outlook Grim
27/02/2012 Comments Off on Stronger U.S. Job Market Seen, Global Unemployment Outlook Grim
By ROBERT SCALLY — The outlook for the U.S. economy is mostly unchanged from that of three months ago, according to 45 economic forecasters surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The economy continues to slowly improve, and should keep getting better for the next few years. The overall forecast for job growth and […]
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