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Trucking / There are jobs but drivers find it tough
Longtime drivers are retiring, and shipping demand is growing. Yet it’s not easy to find people willing to embrace the solitude and separation from family that comes with driving a semitrailer truck across the country for a living. Long-haul truckers spend weeks on the road. They sleep in their cabs or strange beds, shower in … Continue reading
Almost 15% of activie American were unemployment some time during 2011
The “work-experience unemployment rate”—defined as the number of persons unemployed at some time during the year as a proportion of the number of persons who worked or looked for work during the year—was 14.9 percent in 2011, down from 15.9 percent in 2010. The work-experience unemployment rates for Whites (13.7 percent) and Hispanics (18.3 percent) … Continue reading
India / IT and Education Top the List of Job Creating Sectors
Amidst global financial crisis and sluggish economic growth that hampered the growth and employment opportunities in the country, there were few sunshine sectors that created huge job opportunities. Here is a list of such sunshine sectors in India that created new job opportunities in the year 2012, as reported by Anumeha Chaturvedi and Shreya Biswas on The … Continue reading
Fiscal Cliff / Avoided at What Cost?
Some thoughts on the new fiscal agreement: The economy needs a stimulus, but under the agreement, taxes will go up in 2013 relative to 2012 — not only on high-income households, as widely discussed, but also on every working man and woman in the country, via the end of the payroll tax cut. For most … Continue reading
US / Historians / Jobs Rose Last Year
The number of academic-job openings in history increased by 18 percent in 2011-12, but the competition for such positions is steep as the number of new Ph.D. recipients continues to outstrip the number of available jobs, according to a new report by the American Historical Association. The report was published on Wednesday in the association’s … Continue reading
Indonesia / Layoffs in Drop ?
Cases of layoffs in Indonesia dropped nearly 60 percent in 2012 from a year earlier, pointing to improved businesses and labor relationships, said the Minister of Manpower and Transmigration. Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said last year there were 1,916 cases of layoffs involving 7,465 workers — a significant decrease from the 3,875 cases of layoffs involving … Continue reading
Thailand / Minimum Wage / Smaller industries soon to be shaken says Federation of Thai Industries
Five to ten per cent of Thailand’s labour intensive businesses, unable to tolerate the new Bt300 daily minimum wage, will close down in the first quarter of this year, Federation of Thai Industries’ vice chairman Taweekit Chaturacharoenkhun predicted on Wednesday. He said labour intensive small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly in the textile, service and agricultural … Continue reading
US / 2013 job market for College graduates, construction workers and Government workers
Amid another blah year, a few workers that bore the brunt of the Great Recession stand to gain in 2013. Here are three: College graduates Congrats class of 2013! You have a better chance landing your dream job than the poor grads before you working as baristas. The years following the Great Recession hit workers … Continue reading
Germany 2012: Record number of jobs and unemployment down
THE number of people in Germany who have a job rose to a record high last year, even though growth momentum is slowing as the eurozone debt crisis hits the German labour market. The number of people in work in Germany increased by 416,000 or 1.0 per cent to an annual average 41.5 million last … Continue reading
Oman / Government to create 20,000 jobs
Oman will continue spending heavily on job creation for its citizens this year, Finance Minister Darwish al-Balushi said on Wednesday at a news conference on the 2013 budget. “Last year we created 36,000 jobs for Omanis by spending 300 million rials ($780 million),” he said. “This year we will create 56,000 jobs, of which 20,000 … Continue reading
US / The Rising Age Gap: The Old vs the Young
Households headed by older adults have made dramatic gains relative to those headed by younger adults in their economic well-being over the past quarter of a century, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of a wide array of government data. In 2009, households headed by adults ages 65 and older possessed 42% more … Continue reading
Young Americans want Congress to focus on jobs, education and ensuring that Social Security
Today’s 20-somethings are the first generation, as a whole, to face downward economic mobility compared to their parents’ generation, according to a new report from national policy center Demos and youth advocacy organization Young Invincibles. The report, entitled “The State of Young America,” details how the Great Recession has intensified the impact of thirty years … Continue reading
Employability / Top 10 Skills and more
University of Kent, based on a number of surveys on the skills required by graduates undertaken by Microsoft, Target Jobs, the BBC, Prospects, NACE and AGR and other organisations, has produced a summary of the skills which were most often deemed important.has. Each element are clikable so you get more details on the skill. For … Continue reading
Detroit / Another 500 layoffs looming for Detroit employees in February
Some 2,000 pink slips have already gone out in the last few years. And now, another 500 cuts are scheduled for February. It’s already worrying union leaders like Leamon Wilson. The president of the AFSCME Local 312 told the Detroit News that more cuts could cripple the city’s bus service. “You can’t deliver the service…It … Continue reading
Malaysia / Hiring Bangladeshi migrants to start from January 13
Malaysia has resumed recruiting Bangladeshi migrant workers after a four-year pause, an official said Tuesday, in a move easing Dhaka’s remittance worries after the jobs market in the Middle East dried up. The Bangladesh government on Monday announced that an online registration process for those seeking work in Malaysia would start from January 13, following … Continue reading
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