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New Technology, New Jobs – Educating The Future Smart Grid Workforce
24/09/2012 Comments Off on New Technology, New Jobs – Educating The Future Smart Grid Workforce
By Karen Stewartson, Government Technology— Not only is Massoud Amin a scholar and educator, he’s also considered the “father of the smart grid.” This Q&A from Government Technology with University of Minnesota professor Massoud Amin discusses the kinds of jobs and skills that will be created by smart grid technology and what it will take […]
Continue reading …Report: New iPhone, Old Abuses: Have Working Conditions At Foxconn In China Improved?
22/09/2012 Comments Off on Report: New iPhone, Old Abuses: Have Working Conditions At Foxconn In China Improved?
A new report from a watchdog group in China suggests that working conditions at Foxconn, the company that makes Apple’s iPhone,have not improved. Reports of abuse, dangerous working conditions, forced unpaid labor and worker suicides have drawn attention to Foxconn In Sept. 2012, researchers from Hong Kong-based organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) […]
Continue reading …Air Canada Hiring More Than 900 Employees, Launches Low-Cost Airline
21/09/2012 Comments Off on Air Canada Hiring More Than 900 Employees, Launches Low-Cost Airline
Air Canada announced 20 September 2012 that it is hiring more than 900 employees during the next 12 months. The hiring wave comes as Air Canada upgrades customer service call centers, prepares to start a low-cost airline and gets ready for the intense Canadian winter. In addition, 200 new jobs will be created for flight […]
Continue reading …Fiji Stops International Labour Organization From Investigating Union Complaints Of Repression
20/09/2012 Comments Off on Fiji Stops International Labour Organization From Investigating Union Complaints Of Repression
ILO News- The Fijian government stopped the International Labour Organization (ILO) from carrying out a mission to verify complaints of lack of freedom of association made by local trade unions, the ILO said in a statement issued on 19 September 2012. The government had initially agreed to the ILO mission, but then called it off […]
Continue reading …American Videogame Maker EA Creates 300 New Jobs In Ireland
18/09/2012 Comments Off on American Videogame Maker EA Creates 300 New Jobs In Ireland
American videogame maker Electronic Arts said 18 September 2012 that it is adding 300 jobs at its European customer support center in Galway, Ireland. The move was seen as another positive development for Ireland’s videogame and interactive business. The EA center in Galway opened a year ago and currently employs 400 people. “Ireland has won […]
Continue reading …A Temporary Trap? Full Time Work Elusive For Young Workers
18/09/2012 Comments Off on A Temporary Trap? Full Time Work Elusive For Young Workers
ILO News– Temporary work can be a great way for young people to gain work experience while still studying or travelling. But, as the youth jobs crisis shows no signs of abating, temporary jobs have become, in many cases, an option of last resort. The use of temporary contracts for young workers has nearly doubled […]
Continue reading …Hinduja Global Solutions Buys Deloitte’s Hospital Back Office Outsourcing Business
18/09/2012 Comments Off on Hinduja Global Solutions Buys Deloitte’s Hospital Back Office Outsourcing Business
The U.S. subsidiary of business process outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) is buying the health care back office business of Deloitte Consulting Extended Business Services. HGS expects to expand its outsourcing services to U.S. hospitals. The business that HGS is buying consists of accounts receivable processing services and insurance eligibility verification services. Hinduja Global […]
Continue reading …Domestic Workers No Longer A Domestic Issue In Philippines
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Domestic Workers No Longer A Domestic Issue In Philippines
ILO News– Dumaguete City is one of the Philippines’ top destinations for divers and nature lovers. For Aileen Capacite Bulfa, however, it was not the perfect summer getaway. The daughter of a poor farmer, she moved to Dumaguete to become a domestic worker when she was 13. She tried to attend the first year of […]
Continue reading …Apparel Factory Fires Kill Hundreds In Pakistan, Safety Laws Citicized
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Apparel Factory Fires Kill Hundreds In Pakistan, Safety Laws Citicized
Pakistan’s worker safety laws have been criticized after a garment factory fire in Karachi killed 258 workers on 11 September 2012. Another fire the same day in a shoe factory in Lahore, Pakistan, killed at least 25 workers. The fires brought criticism of Pakistan’s government for failing to implement and enforce safety laws in the […]
Continue reading …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 …- 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