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Spain’s Unemployment Rate to Hit 23% in 2012
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Spain’s Unemployment Rate to Hit 23% in 2012
With it economy wracked by the European financial crisis, Spain’s unemployment rate will continue to rise in 2012 reaching 23%, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development forecasts. The economy in Spain is predicted to contract again in the fourth trimester of 2011 and within a year will grow by 0.7% with growth predictions for […]
Continue reading …From the Blogs: How To Achieve Problem Free China Outsourcing. Or Not.
27/11/2011 Comments Off on From the Blogs: How To Achieve Problem Free China Outsourcing. Or Not.
From the China Law Blogsigns of issues with making stuff in China: We are always preaching that if you 1) choose a good manufacturer, 2) use a good OEM contract, 3) engage in good quality control monitoring, and register your trademark, the odds are overwhelming that you will do just fine in outsourcing your product from China. The odds just went […]
Continue reading …Outsourcing Software Development to Eastern Europe: The Case for Slovakia
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Outsourcing Software Development to Eastern Europe: The Case for Slovakia
From Natasha Starkell, editor, GoalEurope: Slovakia is a pretty small country with 5.4 million inhabitants, but it has an enormous competitive advantage: Bratislava, its capital is located within an hour’s drive from the magnificent Vienna. One would think that the proximity to this established economy as well as its membership in the Euro zone would […]
Continue reading …Bermuda’s Economy Minister Talks Job Creation
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Bermuda’s Economy Minister Talks Job Creation
From Bernews.com: Economy & Trade Minister Patrice Minors unveiled a raft of plans and programmes aimed at job creation to put recession-battered Bermudians back to work in the coming months. The Minister touched on the creation of a One-Stop Career Centre for unemployed Bermudians, the introduction of a Job Corps and work permit exemptions and […]
Continue reading …Migrant Workers Flock to India’s Kerala State Searching For Jobs
16/11/2011 Comments Off on Migrant Workers Flock to India’s Kerala State Searching For Jobs
India has it’s own issues with migrant workers as does China, the European Union and the United States. Economically, the India’s Kerala state presents a paradox. The state, where the Malayali language prdominates, has long been a source of migrant workers for the Arab Gulf states. Now Kerala is itself attracting migrant workers, who number […]
Continue reading …WorkStrong: Realizing Our Own Greatness
14/11/2011 Comments Off on WorkStrong: Realizing Our Own Greatness
From Peter Weddle’s WorkStrong blog: There’s a new book out called Good Enough Is the New Perfect. It’s a catchy title, but a terrible idea. Yes, of course, we can overdo our quest for ever-better performance on-the-job. And certainly, many of us do forget to stop and enjoy what we have already achieved with our work. […]
Continue reading …South Africa’s Unemployment Rate Drops to 25% in Third Quarter
08/11/2011 Comments Off on South Africa’s Unemployment Rate Drops to 25% in Third Quarter
Unemployment is bad in many industrialized nations, but nowhere is as bad as South Africa. South Africa’s unemployment rate fell from 25.7% in the second quarter but the nation’s growth appears to be slowing, Statistics South Africa said in a report released in Pretoria. From Bloomberg: The median estimate of five analysts in a Bloomberg […]
Continue reading …Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia
03/11/2011 Comments Off on Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia
According to the International Monetary Fund, assessing unemployment in the vast region of Caucasus and Central Asia is difficult because there is no reliable information. These are potential hot spots for social and political unrest. Creating job in this region could help keep the peace Masood Ahmed writes on iMFDirect blog: It is difficult to […]
Continue reading …Unemployment, Training and Finding Work in Vietnam: A Big Job
11/10/2011 Comments Off on Unemployment, Training and Finding Work in Vietnam: A Big Job
Farmland in Vietnam is being gobbled up for development at the rate of 17,000 hectares — more than 65 square miles — per year, putting an annual average 238,000 poorly educated rural farmers out of work in the process. Vietnam’s Communist government reports a “high” rate of rural unemployment of 3.74% during the first 9 […]
Continue reading …HR a Challenge For Construction Firms in Saudi Arabia
10/10/2011 Comments Off on HR a Challenge For Construction Firms in Saudi Arabia
The “challenge” of “human resources” for companies doing business in the Arab states means hiring more of national population. The countries and companies have historically been heavily dependent on “guest workers” or “foreign experts” be they Malaysian maids or German civil engineers. The governments in nations such as Saudi Arabia are anxious to keep their […]
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