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Rio Tinto / At least 230 jobs in jeopardy in Sorel-Tracy
At least 230 jobs are on the line at Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium in Sorel-Tracy. The company’s management met with the union this week to present a restructuring plan that could result in significant job losses. The plan foresees cutting 75 jobs at the Montérégie-region plant between now and September, with another 155 cuts … Continue reading
US/ Older workers underutilized or not ? It depends
In the U.S. non-federal sector, older workers are more likely than younger counterparts to report being able to put their best skills to use, a survey says. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index involving 115,000 U.S. adults — including 8,000 who identified themselves as federal workers — was conducted Jan. 2-Dec. 30, 2012. About 85 percent of … Continue reading
Canada’s Skills Gap / Needs to do a better job of collecting and disseminating reliable labour market information
Canada needs to do a better job of collecting and disseminating reliable labour market information, the kind employers, students and policy-makers can rely on to make good decisions, observers say. “Our data is horrible,” said Rick Miner, a former Seneca College president who took part in a federal labour market advisory panel in 2009. The … Continue reading
Casino / Australia / Job cuts at Crown
The $9.35 billion casino company Crown has confirmed rumours of job cuts, as Victoria’s largest single-site, private-sector employer seeks a slice of the Sydney casino market. Sources close to Crown said redundancies were on the way for administration, marketing and back-office staff. It is believed the job losses are triggered by a desire to cut … Continue reading
The Digital Divide / The largest-ever field experiment on the effects of home computers on academic achievement finds no effects
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home » write Robert W. Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson in Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren (Adapted chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow). In the United States, schools spend more than … Continue reading
The Canada Job Grant / What do you think about it ?
Tell us what you think about the Ottawa’s proposed Canada Job Grant. Use the DISCUSSION section at the bottom of this page and enter your comment at the end of this post. As Lina Dib wrote in La Presse, “Ottawa is trying to sell a product that Quebecers do not yet exist and that will probably … Continue reading
South Africa / Minimum Wage / 1 988 farmers seek exemption
Nearly 2 000 farmers, many from the Western Cape, have applied for exemption from the minimum wage for farm workers. Labour Minister Mildred Olifant told a press briefing on Thursday, following her department’s budget vote speech, that 1 988 farmers had applied for exemption from the new R105-a-day wage included in the sectoral determination for … Continue reading
China / Only 30% of the world now has a higher GDP per capita
China’s economic achievement is so enormous, indeed literally without parallel in human history, that it is sometimes difficult for people to take in its scale. A country which in 1978, when “reform and opening up” was launched, was one of the poorest in the world, has now reached a point where it has a higher … Continue reading
US / Estimates of the unemployment rate in December 2013 and December 2014
The following table is an estimate of the unemployment rate in December 2013 and December 2014 assuming the LFPR stays close to the current level of 63.3% (I looked at 63.0%, 63.3% and 63.6%). The current unemployment rate is 7.5%. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor via Calculated Risk: Labor Force Participation Rate Sensitivity. Related … Continue reading
Job Boards / The preferred method for recruiting
jobs.ac.uk, one of the leading international job boards for careers in academic, research, science and related professions, announces the results of its survey of recruitment trends across the academic, research and science sectors. The survey of over 170 organisations revealed that the use of job boards has become an essential HR practice, with 64% of … Continue reading
China in Picture / Working in a mine
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor China’s Coal Mines [Photos] – Business Insider.
Vacation Around the World / United States Still a No-Vacation Nation
The United States is the only advanced economy that does not guarantee its workers any paid vacation time, according to a new review of international labor laws by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). As a result, almost 1-in-4 Americans do not receive any paid vacation or paid holidays, trailing far behind most … Continue reading
Canada / Is the widespread assumption that Canada is suffering from a growing shortage of labour true?
“When the Royal Bank of Canada was recently caught up in a maelstrom of bad publicity over its use of temporary foreign workers, it led politicians and pundits to scrutinize and question the growing use by Canadian firms of imported, short-term labour” Kevin McQuillan in ALL THE WORKERS WE NEED: DEBUNKING CANADA’S LABOUR- SHORTAGE FALLACY (Adapted … Continue reading
India / U.S. firms have generated 350,000 jobs between 2007 and 2011
Painting a buoyant picture of the Indo-U.S. trade ties, Jennifer McIntyre, Consul-General of the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, has said the bilateral trade in goods and services between the two countries has increased by four-and-a-half times in the last decade. Addressing members of the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) here … Continue reading
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