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Siemens Rail Systems plans 44 job cuts at Sacramento light-rail facility – Sacramento Business Journal

bizjournals.com – Siemens Rail Systems on Tuesday said it is eliminating 44 positions at its Sacramento manufacturing plant. “This action is necessary to align staffing with the current business and project volume,”…

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Union asks Brazil’s Embraer to avoid layoffs

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WYMT – Home – Headlines

wkyt.com – Nearly 200 people are out of work at a Pike County coal company. Central Appalachian Mining (CAM) in Pikeville laid off 193 people yesterday. Officials with CAM’s parent company, Rhino Resource Par…

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PERSPECTIVE: EI or the mines?

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QR National confirms 500+ jobs to go

news.com.au – QR National will slash more than 500 jobs from its workforce as part of a major restructuring and cost drive. The company, which was sold off by the State Government in 2010 as part of the controve…

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University of Kentucky announces employee layoffs

kykernel.com – University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto acknowledged reductions in the university workforce in a email distributed campus-wide at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Capilouto said the layoffs are to offset …

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Min wage policy may hinder employment – Latest – New Straits Times

nst.com.my – The government recently announced minimum wages of RM900 for Peninsular and RM800 for Sabah and Sarawak. The survey, participated by 1,520 human resource personnel, revealed that 44 per cent disa…

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Study: Vocational certificates can payoff more than a bachelor’s – USATODAY.com

usatoday.com – Good news for new high school graduates who don’t think college-level algebra or freshman English is their thing. A study released Wednesday finds that certificates awarded through short-term vocat…

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Lessons from Canada on skilled migration – The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

abc.net.au – The avalanche of ignorance accompanying the coverage of the policy to import skilled foreign workers has been extraordinary, even for a media landscape as small-minded as Australia’s. While the Aus…

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United says more job cuts possible – Houston Chronicle

chron.com – Chicago-based United Airlines is leaving the door open for more job cuts in Houston related to its merger with Continental Airlines. United, now the world’s largest airline, said Tuesday it wouldn’…

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Goldman Cuts Jobs to Reduce Costs – Zacks.com

zacks.com – According to New York Times, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS – Analyst Report) is moving ahead with its cost cutting strategies. Last week, the bank sacked 50 employees, including some managing di…

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GM cuts confirm factory jobs gone for good | FP Comment

opinion.financialpost.com – In the 21st century, they’re giving way to service jobs at places like Telus By Jason Langrish GM will cut 2,000 jobs at its Oshawa plant, another hit for a beleaguered sector of the Canadian econo…

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Sky News: Leading index points to slow jobs growth

skynews.com.au – The federal government’s leading employment index is pointing to slower jobs growth in coming months. The federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations indicator of employment…

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Two weeks after light-rail deal, Siemens announces Sacramento plant layoffs – Business – The Sacramento Bee

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Otago Wool Firm Announces Layoffs?

topnews.net.nz – The textile workers’ union stated that layoffs at a major North Otago wool facility are reflective of the difficulty makers are confronting crosswise the nation. Following discussion with FIRST Uni…

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Pilgrim’s Pride announces 105 more layoffs in Chattanooga

timesfreepress.com – The Chattanooga Pilgrim’s Pride deboning plant will lay off 105 more workers by Saturday for a total of 190 jobs cut in less than a month. Company officials expect this will be the last round of la…

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Alvarion implementing layoffs and pay cuts – Globes

globes.co.il – Alvarion gave few details about these measures, simply saying, “The company will also reduce expenses including a global wage reduction for all employees, along with adjustments to headcount.” Alva…

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Students come face to face with the jobs market | Education

guardian.co.uk – Every student reaches that anxious moment when their degree ends, and suddenly they have to face the real world. With one in three graduates in a lower skilled job, the appetite for gap years at an…

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Pfizer to cut 177 jobs in Cork – The Irish Times – Wed, Jun 06, 2012

irishtimes.com – Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has announced it will cut 177 jobs at two plants in Co Cork. The positions will be reduced during 2013 at the company’s two manufacturing sites in Little Island and Ri…

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Diageo to create 1,000 jobs in £1bn Scotch whiskey expansion to meet emerging market demand

thisismoney.co.uk – PUBLISHED: 09:12 GMT, 6 June 2012 | UPDATED: 09:12 GMT, 6 June 2012 Diageo is to invest £1billion in its Scotch whiskey production over the next five years to meet growing demand from the emerging …

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German workers lead EU ‘green jobs’ revolution

euractiv.com – According to the latest report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the drive for revamping Europe’s building stock has already had a profound impact on employment. The building renova…

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U.S. job creation weapon against China in Africa – The Daily Iowan

dailyiowan.com – U.S. job creation weapon against China in Africa BY GUEST COLUMN | JUNE 06, 2012 6:30 AM Every year, thousands of African students graduate from American universities. Some of them go back to Afric…

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US economy unlikely to slip back to recession |Americas

chinadaily.com.cn – WASHINGTON – The possibility of the US economy sliding back to recession is very small despite the fragile economic recovery, US billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Tuesday. The US economy …

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What recession? IIT grad bags Rs 70 lakh job with Twitter

firstpost.com – Indian grads are Valley favorites. A good case in point is Swapnil Jain, an IIT Delhi graduate who bagged a job at micro-blogging site Twitter for Rs 70 lakh. Jain will join Twitter’s team at the c…

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Portugal Appears Poised for Second Bailout as Unemployment Spikes

foxbusiness.com – Surging unemployment is stretching Portugal’s austerity program to breaking point, and its international lenders are likely to respond by giving the country more time to hit its budget targets, lik…

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Romney Hits at Obama for High Hispanic Unemployment – TheStreet

thestreet.com – NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Mitt Romney highlighted Hispanic unemployment as it appeared the GOP nominee is attempting to narrow his unfavorable polling numbers. Romney’s campaign released a Web ad Tue…

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May Unemployment Rate 2012 & May Jobs Report Affects Latinos

latina.com – The Bureau of Labor and Statistics has released a new jobs report, which showcases that Latino unemployment rates increased from 10.3% to 11% in April. The economic recession has also affect the Af…

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In Pittsburgh A Bad Economy Leads To Transit Cuts, and Transit Cuts Lead to Unemployment

mobile.slate.com – Put this down as another example of what hysteresis looks like. The process by which cyclical unemployment turns “structural” is not some mythical transformation. A lot of the jobs that people have…

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Is Lack of Worker Skills Responsible for High Unemployment? « unsettling economics

michaelperelman.wordpress.com – David Wessel had an interesting article about the effect of one area of corporate cutbacks — human relations. HR departments adjust by relying on electronic services to evaluate applications. The…

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Asian Americans and Unemployment » Sociological Images

thesocietypages.org – The Economic Policy Institute recently released a report looking at the impacts of the recession and its aftermath on the Asian American population. Due to the model minority stereotype, Asian Amer…

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Most state economies still recovering after recession – USATODAY.com

usatoday.com – The residents of only nine states have returned their economic output to the level that existed before the downturn struck at the end of 2007 — and most of those states are energy producers, accord…

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Susan Popoola: Why it’s time to take a strategic approach to skills (XpertHR – Employment Intelligence)

xperthr.co.uk – Could a strategic approach to talent management enable the UK to maintain its position in the global economy? In today’s guest blog post, Susan Popoola explores this topic – which is just one of th…

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Certificates are misunderstood credentials that pay off — mostly for men

insidehighered.com – The certificate is the odd man out in the debate over college completion. But the rarely discussed and little-understood certificate is the fastest-growing form of college credential, and a key com…

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The Maddow Blog – A stroll down memory lane

maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com – After Friday’s discouraging jobs report, there was increasing talk on the right about the benefits of George W. Bush’s record, as if the nation would be better off turning back the clock to 2008. A…

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Classes of 2001 vs. 1999: What a Difference Two Years Makes – Real Time Economics – WSJ

blogs.wsj.com – Younger workers have had a harder time in the rough U.S. job market, but even a couple of years can make a big difference. For example, the seniors in the Class of 1999 were better off in their 20s…

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A global recession: How did we get here?

marketplace.org – Kai Ryssdal: An interesting thing happened on the way to the opening bell on Wall Street this morning. Nothing. Not panic selling. Not the Dow off 300 points. Not, nuthin’. Which, if you remember w…

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Unemployment Increase Worse for Blacks

blogs.the-american-interest.com – Last Friday’s unemployment news crashed the stock market and upended the presidential race. Lost in the excitement, however, was the news that African-American unemployment, already significantly a…

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Speaker Boehner Statement on May Unemployment Report

speaker.gov – “While Senate Democrats are blocking these and other important jobs bills, and President Obama is occupied campaigning, the House will continue to focus on liberating job creators and building a st…

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Employers: Qualified Workers Aren’t In Jobs Pool : NPR

npr.org – Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. From jobseekers in Spain, we turn to those here in the U….

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Total Institutions, Productivity, and Unemployment – Bob Sutton

bobsutton.typepad.com – This isn’t an original idea, but it has been gnawing at me lately. As we all know, unemployment in the U.S. remains frighteningly high — and is worse in many parts of Europe. We still haven’t r…

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Threat Of Devastating Collapse Remains As Long As US Doesn’t Address Structural Unemployment – Business Insider

businessinsider.com – Daniel Alpert is a founding Managing Director of Westwood Capital, an investment bank and advisory firm. In the second quarters of three successive calendar years—2010, 2011 and 2012—improvements i…

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AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis – Bloomberg

bloomberg.com – You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com American International Group Inc. (AIG) Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europe’s debt crisis shows governments worldwide m…

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Employment News, Consumer Tips and Job Advice – Life Inc. | TODAY.com Blogs – Unemployment data highlights growing educational divide

lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com – If you want to get a job in this economy, it’s becoming increasingly clear that you better also be thinking about getting an education beyond just a high school degree. The government reported Frid…

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