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Early retirements save jobs at Crozer-Keystone Health System
With 196 employees accepting the early retirement offer, officials at the Crozer-Keystone Health System whittled the number of employees targeted for layoff from 325 to 30. “We were very, very lucky,” Crozer-Keystone Vice President of Marketing Kathy Scullin said. “Because so many people took it, we were able to greatly reduce the number of people … Continue reading
San Diego Unified School District Board of Education To Layoff Nearly 1,000 Employees
The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education voted 3-1 Tuesday night to issue layoff notices to about 975 full- and part-time classified employees for the next fiscal year to help balance a budget deficit that could reach $122 million. Notices would be issued to affected employees, which include library assistants, custodians and assistants … Continue reading
Higher Education in India | To double the enrollment ratio from 17% to 30% by the year 2020
Higher education in the country is set to get a boost with the HRD ministry finalising plans worth Rs. 80,000 crore inorder to improve access to colleges and universities. The UPA government has embarked upon an ambitious plan to double the gross enrollment ratio (GER), from present around 17% to 30% by the year 2020. For … Continue reading
Canadians Among the Most Satisfied Employees in the World finds Randstad
According to the latest Randstad Workmonitor study, which surveys employees in 32 countries around the world, one out of three Canadians say they are very satisfied with their current employer – placing Canadians amongst the highest employee satisfaction levels reported globally. The Randstad Workmonitor asked workers from around the world to rank their satisfaction level … Continue reading
UPDATE – Wall Street cuts jobs | 459,400 jobs in four years
U.S. financial sector loses 459,400 jobs in four years – The Business Journals The recession may officially be over, but its effects are lingering in the financial sector. The nation’s 100 biggest metropolitan areas lost a collective total of 459,400 financial-activities jobs during the past four years, according to an On Numbers analysis. The U.S. … Continue reading
The cry of an innocent | David Cameron is disappointed by UK double-dip recession
Britain’s return to recession is “very, very disappointing”, Prime Minister David Cameron said today, but he insisted the Government will stick to its programme of austerity and deficit reduction. The Office for National Statistics today announced the 0.2% decline in gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of the year which, after a fall … Continue reading
Police jobs | Work-life imbalance
Canadian police officers are well-paid but have significant stress and health problems because of work demands and have little in the way of work-life balance, according to national study unveiled Tuesday. The survey of 4,500 police officers from 25 police forces found while the work culture for police involves shift-work, long hours and attention to … Continue reading
The reality of child labour in Zanzibar
AMOUR Khatib Ali 9, is one of the many children from the coastal villages in Zanzibar, who spend most of their time along beach ferrying hsh from the sea for scaling Young boys, dressed in shabby clothes, are seen along the sea shore, sometimes during school hours earning between Tshs 200 and 1,000 depending of the workload Even though the work … Continue reading
The majority of voluntary sector organizations have been impacted by the recession in UK
During 2008 and 2009 the UK experienced the longest post-war recession on record with six consecutive quarters of contraction. This most immediately and visibly impacted upon the private sector. But subsequent reductions in public spending amidst a period of low growth have increasingly impacted upon the public and voluntary sectors. At the beginning of 2010, 59% of charities reported that … Continue reading
HSBC | 2,000 UK layoffs
Banking giant HSBC is this week expected to announce some 2,000 UK job cuts as part of a restructuring of its global business. The axe is expected to fall on nearly 4% of the bank’s 52,000-strong UK workforce in a drive to slash costs and help the business react to the tougher climate in the … Continue reading
UK | It is legal for companies to force retirement if in ‘public interest’
Companies could, for example, say they needed to dismiss older workers at 65 to make way for more entry-level jobs and younger staff climbing the career ladder, the long-awaited judgment signalled. It is the first time the “public interest” defence has been applied to age discrimination law, legal experts said, adding that the case gave … Continue reading
UPDATE – Indian Brain Drain | A law to curb it is coming
Compulsory Brain Drain : Indian Doctors should come back after Higher studies in the US | Asian Correspondent Any doctor who is going to the US for higher medical studies will have to sign a bond with the government that they will return back after their studies. Universities across the US will ask for this … Continue reading
Talent War | The Mining Battle
Bruno Rizzuto’s father, Cesare, was 19 when he got off a boat in Halifax from southern Italy in 1951. With no coat, and “5 cents in his pocket” he headed for the gold mines of Timmins, Ontario, where he worked underground for 41 years. Six decades later Rizzuto, a Calgary-based recruiter, is looking for people like his … Continue reading
UK | Millions of workers force to work past 75
Millions of workers will be forced to work past the age of 75 because they are in the dark on how much they need to save for a comfortable retirement. The Pensions Policy Institute, which carried out the research, said that people were not saving enough, although living longer, volatile stock markets and plunging annuity … Continue reading
Iran | At least 100,000 Layoffs Last Year
More than 100,000 Iranian workers lost their jobs in the past year alone, says the head of Iran’s House of Labour. According to Iran’s Labour news agency Ilna, Alireza Mahjoub, head of the state-sponsored union body, said that in the past year 100,000 workers had been laid off from one thousand production units across the … Continue reading
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