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BBC News – Are Greeks the hardest workers in Europe?
The eurozone crisis has sown divisions in the European family, and Greece in particular has often been singled out for criticism. Has Greece been living beyond its means? Are Greeks lazy? On this second point, the statistics tell a surprising story. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that the average … Continue reading
McDonald’s spends £10m of taxpayer’s cash from employment scheme without creating a single job – Mirror Online
McDonald’s has pocketed £10million of public money for an apprenticeship scheme …but has not created a single new job with it. Instead, the multi-national fast-food giant has spent the whole sum on “career progression” for 18,000 existing staff. A Sunday Mirror investigation has found that among nine other major firms which take the most money … Continue reading
A Million Jobs – NYTimes.com
The American economy was terrifyingly close to the brink in 2008 and 2009, and the impending collapse of General Motors and Chrysler threatened to be the final push. When the companies begged the federal government to save them from financial catastrophe, President George W. Bush and later President Obama ignored strong Republican objections, saving a … Continue reading
Veteran unemployment is falling as employers realize what a soldier can do
In recent weeks, area manufacturers have peppered veteran affairs offices and job training centers with requests for veteran job candidates, preferably people fresh from the fight in Iraq or Afghanistan. Cuyahoga County recently welcomed a veteran job specialist — becoming the first county in Ohio to do so — and some major employers are instructing … Continue reading
The end of the American labour market model?
Originally posted on Inequalities:
In a guest post from Declan Gaffney – shortened from a recent post at his blog L’Art Social – he shows that US employment rates are increasingly unimpressive in international context, despite the claims often made in the UK. Comments from both sides of the Atlantic are welcomed! Only a few years…
The Canadian Skills Shortage: Keeping Tradespeople Employed for the Foreseeable Future – MarketWatch
The current challenge of all major industrial manufacturers in Canada is the shortage of skilled workers with the right experience. Research conducted by the Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress, (CSTEC) underscores this challenge in the broader Steel Sector. With a very high value-add per employee, when compared to the rest of manufacturing, the broader … Continue reading
How will Washington meet its growing need for STEM degrees? | HeraldNet.com – Opinion
A top Boeing official recently shared this sobering statistic: that 50 percent of Boeing’s engineers will be eligible to retire by 2015. Similar and equally frightening statistics pertain to the growing need for engineers in the energy industry, the transportation systems sector, and the civil infrastructure arena. Another projection shows that by 2018 the state … Continue reading
Cost of hiring Sri Lankan maids ‘unreasonably high’ – Arab News
Several Saudi citizens have decried an exorbitant hike in recruitment charges by the Sri Lankan manpower recruitment offices and middlemen. They noted that the recruitment offices have raised the charges for hiring housemaids from $3,000 to about $4,000, and that was in clear violation of the agreements signed earlier between the two countries. The citizens … Continue reading
Bank of Montreal cuts 60 capital markets jobs
Bank of Montreal has cut 60 jobs at its capital markets division, and Canada’s No. 4 bank said staff reductions are due to concerns about productivity in the current capital markets environment. “The reductions are part of our focus on productivity and we would expect to continue to be hiring over the course of the … Continue reading
California | Long-term unemployed get reprieve | The Orange County Register
Long-term unemployment benefits in California should remain at 99 weeks in California until June, according to an Employment Development Department analysis of the payroll tax and jobless bill signed by President Barack Obama Thursday. Initial descriptions of the legislation suggested long-term benefits would be cut to 73 weeks under a compromise approved by Congress earlier … Continue reading
India | ‘Only 17% techies employable’ | The Asian Age
In the IT sector, India has an employable workforce of only 17.54 per cent. This was revealed in a report released by HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Friday. The National Employability Report 2011 of engineering graduates was prepared by Aspiring Minds — an employability assessment company after getting feedback from more than 55,000 students who … Continue reading
Foreign workers forced out by gov’t policy – News – The Prague Post
When Olga S., 33, left her village in west Ukraine nine years ago in search of a job in the Czech Republic, finding work was the easy part of her experience. She did not speak the language and was given a low-skill job at a Prague bakery. She slept at a boarding house for migrant … Continue reading
Transcom Closing Sault Operations – Shifting Jobs to Philippines – LOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie
Another call centre will shudder operations in Sault Ste. Marie as of July of this year. In a press release yesterday, Transcom announced it was closing four North American operations, including the one in the Sault putting 169 employees out of work. Local2news has learned that employees were given termination notices on Thursday. In a … Continue reading
Ottawa’s focus on Alberta oilsands is killing manufacturing jobs in Eastern Canada, economists say – thestar.com
You know that old saying, “When the U.S. sneezes, Canada catches a cold.” It still applies. The United States remains our biggest trading partner. What happens there affects everything from our tourism to our exports. But now, Canada is facing a bigger threat to its economic health. It’s called Dutch Disease — and it’s complicated … Continue reading
India | Now, a college degree in vocational education – Times Of India
For years, India’s basic collegiate education had been segregated into three distinct academic islands: the masses pursued humanities, the ones with shining score cards took to the sciences and the rest who wanted to pick up the tools of trade, opted for commerce. Now students can venture into a fourth dimension: a bachelor’s in vocation … Continue reading
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