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China | Manufacturing | To dominate the Solar Industry
Huff Post – That the goal of the Chinese is to dominate the global solar and renewable energy industry is clear. A report released in February by the Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Trade titled “Losing the Environmental Goods Economy to China” provides ample evidence. According to the Subcommittee’s report: • The U.S. trade deficit in … Continue reading
UK | Firms asked to stop hiring foreign workers by minister Damian Green
NDTV – Amid increasing curbs on Indian and other non-EU professionals, UK authorities on Tuesday asked companies in the country to stop their “addiction” to recruiting foreign workers and hire local workers instead. Thousands of Indian professionals migrate to the UK under the ‘intra-company transfer’ and other routes, but recent and proposed changes have been strongly … Continue reading
India | Productivity | ‘Paraskilling’ creates new jobs by slicing old ones to bits
CSMonitor – How can you reduce surgery costs while boosting local employment? Paraskilling, that’s how. The paraskilling framework is as old as the assembly line, but it’s got a new modus operandi. By re-engineering complex systems into simplified tasks that can be performed by a larger, lower-skilled workforce, an organization is able to cut its … Continue reading
German Gender Gap | Most unfair society in Europe says an OECD Report
The Local – German women have to contend with the biggest gender gaps in wages and career opportunities in Europe, according to a new study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The report found that women in full-time jobs earn an average of 21.6 percent less than their male colleagues. This is … Continue reading
GM | Job losses to come from its European business
The Guardian – GM would stick to a labour deal that limits factory closures before 2014, Girsky indicated nonetheless that there would be job losses from its European business. “We know in the future that there may not be the same amount of people here as there are today. It is important that we create … Continue reading
UK | More graduates in low skilled jobs
BBC News – Recent graduates are more likely to be working in lower skilled jobs than they were 10 years ago, new figures show. Over a third of recent graduates were in non-graduate jobs at the end of 2011 – up from around a quarter in 2001. The figures, from Office for National Statistics, also … Continue reading
Nissan’s Sunderland success story
BBC: Nissan’s decision to build its new Invitation car in Sunderland is the third statement of confidence in the plant in the last two years. In 2010 the company announced plans to manufacture the new electric Leaf in Wearside and last year it said it would also produce the new Qashqai on the site. The … Continue reading
Royal Bank of Scotland | Cuts 215 U.K. Jobs
Bloomberg: Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Britain’s largest government-controlled lender, said it was cutting 215 U.K. jobs and moving the posts overseas. The cuts will fall on support staff at the bank’s finance division, mainly in Edinburgh and London, a spokesman said. The reductions are in addition to the 6,800 job losses announced since … Continue reading
American Cities | Mapping Inequalities
The Atlantic Cities: Inequality is shaping up to be one of the biggest issues in the 2012 presidential election. The Occupy movement may have waned since last fall, but its focus on the privileges of the top one percent has yet to go away. Most economists argue that rising inequality is driven by broader structural … Continue reading
Spain : Safety net frays as care workers go unpaid, regions revolt, but more cuts demanded
Spain’s safety net frays as care workers go unpaid | Reuters Reteurs: Mercedes Garcia, the director of a residency for severely mentally disabled adults, has a crisis in her kitchen. Two caterers have been supplying and preparing food for the centre’s 46 patients for free for almost a year; the other 18 recently decided they’d had … Continue reading
Poverty in England: An interactive map
Want to see how poverty looks like relative to other districts ? The Gaurdian : Credit reference company Experian, besides supplying information to credit cards companies and banks, also provides data for the public sector – and has given us this data. It ranks every English local authority by a set of key poverty indicators… … Continue reading
Yahoo preparing layoffs, could affect thousands
Yahoo Inc’s new chief executive is preparing a significant restructuring of the Internet company, including layoffs that could cut thousands of employees from its payroll, according to a technology blog. The moves could be announced as soon as the end of the month and would represent the first major changes under CEO Scott Thompson, the … Continue reading
Apple says it is supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs | Reactions
Apple is Supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs according to Apple itself. You can read the argument @ Apple. “Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who … Continue reading
White People | What’s the matter with them ?
One of the burdens of blackness, W.E.B. DuBois famously wrote, was facing down an omnipresent question from the wider society: “How does it feel to be a problem?” I’ve been wondering lately if white people might soon understand what he meant. Both the right and left suddenly have a lot of complaints about white people, … Continue reading
Unpaid Work | Welfare reforms | Won’t Work
AS ANY middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction to a secure job. The coalition government has recognised it too, scrapping rules in 2011 that had formerly stopped 16- to 24-year-olds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit. But moving from that to forcing them to work gratis in … Continue reading
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