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Wisconsin | 4,300 private sector jobs lost
Wisconsin lost 4,300 private sector jobs in March, the state Department of Workforce Development reported Thursday, bad news for Gov. Scott Walker as he nears a June 5 recall election. Since Walker took office, the state has added just 5,900 private sector jobs — far from the 250,000 Walker promised to deliver by the end … Continue reading
Canada | UI Recipients to fill labour shortages, even in seasonal jobs
Ottawa is preparing to tackle one of the country’s most sensitive labour questions: Why won’t healthy, unemployed Canadians get their hands dirty? The Conservative government is preparing legislative and policy changes that, for the first time, will link the federal Employment Insurance program to the Temporary Foreign Worker program. A spokesperson for Human Resources Minister … Continue reading
U.S. | College grads job prospects improving
Listen up, Class of 2012! Your shot at nailing a job is better than you think. With the economy brightening, so are the prospects for entry-level job seekers with college degrees, according to a new survey from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The country’s 1.7 million grads will benefit as companies look to … Continue reading
H.B Fuller | 130 jobs cut
The company will close six facilities and cut 90 jobs by mid-2013. In December, H.B. Fuller said it will buy Forbo’s industrial adhesives business for $395 million as it bulks up its presence in Europe. St Paul, Minnesota-based H.B. Fuller will close the former Forbo corporate and research offices in North Carolina resulting in 40 … Continue reading
Blueprint to Transform Career and Technical Education – U.S. Department of Education
Today U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit the Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, Iowa, to release the Obama Administration’s blueprint for transforming Career and Technical Education (CTE), by reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. Secretary Duncan will hold a town hall to discuss how the … Continue reading
Canada | Employment Insurance | Recipients Fell by 6,700 and claims down
In February, the number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits fell by 6,700 (-1.2%) to 552,800. The number of beneficiaries fell in six provinces, with the largest percentage declines occurring in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec. Chart 1 Fewer Employment Insurance beneficiaries in February Number of Employment Insurance claims down in February To receive EI benefits, individuals must first … Continue reading
Bodog | 70 Layoffs
After reports circulated earlier this week that 70 employees had been made redundant at Bodog’s UK headquarters, the site yesterday confirmed their validity in a statement issued to PokerNews while citing a restructuring effort as the reason for the shake-up… Source: Read More @ Gambling Online Magazine | News | Big Layoffs At Bodog.
UPDATE- 2: EU growth plan | Target: 17 million jobs
EC aims to boost European job market | Unemployment With unemployment across the EU continuing to grow, the European Commission has outlined what it believes are ways of increasing the demand-side of job creation and fostering a dynamic employment market. Despite the findings that unemployment figures in the UK improved in the three months to … Continue reading
Reshoring | More Than a Third of Large Manufacturers Are Considering Coming Back to Made in U.S.
More than a third of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater than $1 billion are planning to bring back production to the United States from China or are considering it, according to a new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Decision makers at 106 companies across a broad range of industries responded … Continue reading
Extended UI Benefits Ending In Washington and Oregon
Thousands of long-term unemployed workers in the northwest will soon lose unemployment checks. It’ll happen this weekend in Oregon; two weeks later in Washington State but likely not for several more months in Idaho. The federal government won’t pay for extended benefits anymore because the jobless rates have improved. Washington and Oregon’s employment departments announced that … Continue reading
UPDATE – Bridge to Work | Experiments with unemployment insurance keep benefits to recipients in job training
Turning the Unemployment Program into a Reemployment Program – Official Press Release by DOL Two months ago, the President signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. That legislation extended the vital payroll tax cut and federal unemployment insurance programs that have been so crucial for American families and to the continued … Continue reading
UK | Record numbers forced into part-time working
The number of unemployed men fell by 43,000 to reach 1.51 million but the number of unemployed women increased by 8,000 to reach 1.14 million, the highest figure since the three months to November 1987. Despite the fall in unemployment,the Jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) claimant count rose by 3,600 in March – the highest total since … Continue reading
Bridge to Work | Experiments with unemployment insurance keep benefits to recipients in job training
The Obama administration is looking for states that will experiment with unemployment insurance programs by letting people test a job while still receiving benefits. The plan is a key feature of a payroll tax cut package that President Barack Obama negotiated with congressional Republicans in February. The Labor Department will open the application process Thursday … Continue reading
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report : Disappointingly Stable
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending April 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 386,000, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 388,000. The 4-week moving average was 374,750, an increase of 5,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 369,250. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.6 percent … Continue reading
Some Law Students are graduating with more than $150,000 in debt
Among 195 ranked law schools surveyed annually by U.S. News, 191 reported the average indebtedness of graduating students in 2011, the most recent figures available. Overall, law students graduated with an average of $100,433 in debt, though at some of the schools with the most heavily debt-laden students, graduates faced an average debt of more … Continue reading
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