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Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment Down
29/09/2012 Comments Off on Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment Down
Irish workers are on the move again. This time it’s a 21st century wave of Irish immigration that’s taking away Ireland’s most skilled workers. More than 100,000 Irish workers are expected to leave to find jobs before end of 2013. Ireland’s unemployment rate was 14.7% as of August 2012. For many Irish workers the only […]
Continue reading …Resource: Summary Of Health Care Benefits And Insurance Coverage And Uniform Glossary Of Terms
29/09/2012 Comments Off on Resource: Summary Of Health Care Benefits And Insurance Coverage And Uniform Glossary Of Terms
Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurers and group health plans will provide the 180 million Americans who have private insurance with clear, consistent and comparable information about their health care plan benefits and coverage. Specifically, the regulations will ensure consumers have access to two forms that will help them understand and evaluate their health […]
Continue reading …The Democratization Of The Stock Market That Never Happened
28/09/2012 Comments Off on The Democratization Of The Stock Market That Never Happened
By Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute— Despite minute-by-minute dissection of the stock market in the news media, the share of the population of the United States owning stock is surprisingly low. Even when including shares purchased indirectly through retirement accounts, in 2010, less than half (46.9%) of all households had stock holdings. Less than a […]
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 …Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
By Richard Fry, Pew Research Center— Nearly one out of five (19%) of U.S. households owed student loan debt in 2010. That’s more than double the share two decades earlier and a significant rise from the 15% that owed such debt in 2007, just prior to the start of the Great Recession, according to a […]
Continue reading …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 …Navy Aircraft Facility In OSHA Trouble, Employees Exposed To Toxins
20/09/2012 Comments Off on Navy Aircraft Facility In OSHA Trouble, Employees Exposed To Toxins
Workers at a Navy aircraft maintenance facility in Coronado, Calif., were allegedly exposed extremely toxic substances including lead, cadmium and beryllium, OSHA workplace safety inspectors found. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued notices to the Navy regarding violations of workplace health and safety standards at the Fleet Readiness Center Southwest facility in […]
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 …Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
13/09/2012 Comments Off on Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
Ford will add 1,200 new hourly jobs and invest $555 million to equip a new state-of-the-art body and paint shop capable of producing multiple vehicles at its plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. Ford is taking over management the former AutoAlliance International plant and is upgrading the Flat Rock Assembly Plant to include a state-of-the-art, fully […]
Continue reading …Executive, Professional Hiring To Keep Rising But Pace Slower
01/03/2012 Comments Off on Executive, Professional Hiring To Keep Rising But Pace Slower
Hiring in professional fields is likely to keep rising in the second quarter of 2012 but at a slower pace than forecast for the first quarter, according to a new survey by the staffing firm Robert Half. A net 2% of executives interviewed for the Robert Half Professional Employment Report plan to add full-time staff […]
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