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Youth Unemployment Worldwide: Millions Not Working, Not Studying
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Youth Unemployment Worldwide: Millions Not Working, Not Studying
ILO News— Youth unemployment around the world has driven millions of young people to essentially give up looking for a job, warned the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new report. The youth unemployment rate (at 12.6% in 2011) would be a full percentage point higher if it included the number of young people who […]
Continue reading …Youth Unemployment Up 4 Million Worldwide Since 2007
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Youth Unemployment Up 4 Million Worldwide Since 2007
ILO News– The global youth unemployment rate for 2012 remains stuck at crisis peak levels and is not expected to come down until at least 2016, says the International Labor Organization (ILO) in its Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012 report (www.ilo.org/getyouth). Projections show 12.7% of the global youth labor force will be unemployed this year, unchanged […]
Continue reading …Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation Prospects
05/02/2013 Comments Off on Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation Prospects
ILO 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 …Hiring Temporary Talent Boosts Employment, Jobless Rate Unchanged
03/02/2013 Comments Off on Hiring Temporary Talent Boosts Employment, Jobless Rate Unchanged
Temporary talent is helping U.S. employers fill the gap rather than hiring full time employees. In a new report from ManpowerGroup, temporary workers, a significant component of a company’s needed flexible work model, remain key to jolting and sustaining business growth, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported that the overall January jobless […]
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 …Bridging The Job Skills Gap: Inforgrapic
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Bridging The Job Skills Gap: Inforgrapic
Job Skills Gap Infographic Despite America’s high unemployment rate, there are more than 3.7 million open job positions and 34% of American companies report difficulty filling critical positions. Is the jobs skills gap real? Experts argue if there is really a significant overall mismatch of jobs and skills to job seekers. The facts also point out that overall […]
Continue reading …Coding for GOOD And A Good Job; Innovative Talent Hunt Bridges Job Skills Gap
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Coding for GOOD And A Good Job; Innovative Talent Hunt Bridges Job Skills Gap
Learn new job skills for free, show it off and get god job—all on the Internet? Here’s the story of an interesting way of training people, giving them usable in-demand job skills people AND then hiring them. This is really a demo for one company’s online education and training platform, but it does demonstrate how […]
Continue reading …Fake Skills Shortage: Workers Have Skills But Lack Jobs & Fair Wages
24/01/2013 Comments Off on Fake Skills Shortage: Workers Have Skills But Lack Jobs & Fair Wages
Fake skills shortage: American business is finding it harder to hide behind the excuse that there simply aren’t enough workers with certain skills. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Adam Davidson (founder of the Planet Money podcast and NPR radio show) deconstructs the so-called “skills gap.” Turns out it’s a fake skills shortage. Reasons […]
Continue reading …Infographic: Employees Ready To Move. Are Companies Ready To Keep Them?
18/01/2013 Comments Off on Infographic: Employees Ready To Move. Are Companies Ready To Keep Them?
Ah, engagement and retention. It’s that time of year when employees are restless and sniffing around for new jobs. As the economy improves, many employers will face the challenge of hiring and keeping top employees with the right skills. What motivates employees and keeps them engaged in their jobs? This infographic dissects employees’ intentions in […]
Continue reading …Record: More Young Adults In U.S. Finishing High School And College
02/12/2012 Comments Off on Record: More Young Adults In U.S. Finishing High School And College
By RICHARD FRY and KIM PARKER, Pew Research Center— Record shares of young adults in the U.S. are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available census data. In 2012, for the first time ever, one-third of 25- to 29-year-olds in the United States […]
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