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DC Employees Unemployment Scam Leads to Layoffs
Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s administration has fired 61 public employees for collecting unemployment benefits while working for the city, the Washington Post reports. “The city’s Department of Employment Services [DOES], which oversees the jobless-compensation program, said in February that dozens of current and former city workers had received the fraudulent payments,” the Post … Continue reading
Canada | A national strategy aimed at finding jobs for unemployed centrally managed
An under-reported aspect of the federal budget is the Harper government’s plan to modify unemployment programs in order to better match workers with employers struggling with labour shortages. The strategy will increase retraining for unemployed Canadians, while making it more difficult for employers to hire workers from aboard when unemployed Canadians are available. Those facts … Continue reading
Cleveland | Layoffs of 508 Teachers
The Cleveland School Board unanimously passed a good portion of the CEO’s budget recommendations at Tuesday night’s meeting – including laying off 508 teachers. The rest of the plan the was not voted on. They will vote on the remaining parts on May 4th. During the meeting Eric Gordon, CEO of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), … Continue reading
Paying Fees Plus Taxes for an Interview
Ambulance company boss John Banbury isn’t happy with the GMB union. “I wish they contacted Norvic before they ran inaccurate information,” he told us. Banbury was referring to the union’s condemnation of Norvic’s £40 plus VAT fee that prospective employees pay to attend a job interview. The GMB was particularly angry because Norvic, a private … Continue reading
Job Trends – Despite Sluggish Growth, Labor Markets in Developing Countries Continue Their Gradual Recovery
In a sample of developing countries, growth in the fourth quarter of 2011 slowed amidst considerable economic uncertainty. Figure 1 shows median growth rates of output, employment, wages, and the median unemployment rate for 11 countries with complete series on all four indicators. Median growth in gross domestic product (GDP) weakened slightly over the fourth … Continue reading
American Airlines | 1,200 layoffs of nonunion workers
American Airlines plans to lay off 1,200 nonunion workers by the end of the summer as it closes an Arizona reservation center and outsources skycaps and some customer service and gate agents as part of its corporate restructuring. On Wednesday, the Fort Worth-based airline outlined plans to reduce annual employee costs by $95 million for … Continue reading
Update | Sony | Cuts 326 EMI’s publishing staff
Sony to Cut 326 EMI Publishing Jobs After Purchase Closes – Bloomberg Sony Corp. (6758) plans to cut 326 jobs at EMI Publishing within two years after U.S. and European regulators approve its $2.2 billion acquisition of the U.K. music company… Source: via Sony to Cut 326 EMI Publishing Jobs After Purchase Closes – Bloomberg. … Continue reading
Fisker | The real Karma is the taxpayer
Fisker Automotive, the startup hybrid-electric carmaker backed by the state and federal governments, has laid off another dozen workers at its Newport-area factory. The layoffs, which occurred quietly Friday, come as the company continues closed-door negotiations with the U.S. Energy Department for a loan that could determine whether Fisker ever builds a car in Delaware. … Continue reading
Pharmaceutical group Mylan is to create 500 jobs in Dublin and Galway
Those jobs will be created over the next five years following a €380 million investment in its Irish operations. The investment, which is being supported by IDA Ireland, will include an expansion of Mylan’s research and development (R&D) capabilities here. Mylan is the largest so-called “generics” pharmaceutical manufacturer in Ireland, producing medicines that are no … Continue reading
EU commission proposes ‘appropriate’ minimum wage
The European Commission on Wednesday (18 April) published an ideas paper to get Europe’s record number of unemployed into jobs and boost growth, including setting an appropriate minimum wage and shaming member states into improving work rates. A controversial suggestion is that member states should introduce an appropriate minimum wage. Most member states have … Continue reading
Dairy Crest | 500 jobs at risk
Dairy Crest announced plans to shut a glass bottling dairy at Aintree, where 220 people work, and a site at Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire employing 250 people. The company also said its contract to supply milk to Tesco would not be renewed when it comes to an end in July. Dairy Crest sells around 3% of … Continue reading
South Africa | For vocational training affordable, good quality vocational training
Last month, a stampede at the University of Johannesburg killed the mother of a potential student, and injured several other people writes Sarah Emily Duff, an NRF postdoctoral research fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Thousands of parents and prospective students had turned up to register – in all, around 85,000 students applied for only 11,000 places. … Continue reading
India | Reverse Brain Drain | Who’s Coming Back and Why?
India’s faltering growth may be disappointing, but it’s still much more rapid than the continued stagnation of the U.S. economy. In certain fields, at least there are still opportunities to be seized in India by those with a taste for adventure. Labor economists call this kind of migration the “reverse brain drain.” Ironically, the migrants … Continue reading
LA | 350 workers face layoffs after 56 courtrooms closure
A state-ordered cut of $30 million to the Los Angeles Superior Courts budget will prompt the closure of 56 courtrooms countywide, layoffs of 350 workers and the “erosion of access to justice,” an official said Tuesday. The cuts will shutter 24 civil, 24 criminal, three family law, one probate and four juvenile delinquency courtrooms, according … Continue reading
1,000 jobs for Irish in Middle East, says an international consultancy
A MAJOR international consultancy has up to 1,000 jobs available for highly qualified Irish construction staff as it ramps up its operations in the Middle East, which is enjoying a boom in infrastructure spending. Hyder Consulting, which already employs nearly 4,000 people in the UK, Germany, the Middle East and Asia, is attempting to hire … Continue reading
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