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Europe – A Skills Passport to facilitate recruitment in hospitality sector
The European Commission has today launched the European Hospitality Skills Passport, a tool developed to facilitate contact between jobseekers and employers in the hospitality and tourism sector in Europe. The Skills Passport allows workers and employers to overcome language barriers and to compare hospitality workers skills in order to facilitate recruitment in the sector. Hosted … Continue reading
World – 75% would change jobs if for more money elsewhere
75% globally agree to the statement: “I would change jobs if I can make more money elsewhere” finds Randstad Workmonitor survey 61% also say that their job is merely a means to make a living and nothing more, according to the latest findings of Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Randstad … Continue reading
Middle East – 53% of finance professionals are actively looking for a new job, the highest pourcentage
With extensive job cuts over the last six years and ongoing prudence around pay, financial service employees have every right to feel a little gloomy in the workplace, and yet the majority of people working in the industry are still happy in their roles and the majority are not looking to leave their current job. Only … Continue reading
Avtovaz (Russia largest carmaker) – To cut 13,000 job
Russias largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, said on Friday it expects to cut 13,000 staff – more than previously indicated – at its Togliatti plant due to falling sales of its flagship Lada. Avtovaz slumped to a loss last year, and recently appointed CEO Bo Andersson is battling to revive business in a touch economic environment amid … Continue reading
Starbucks – Employees to College for Free
Working at Starbucks is now a smarter move. The coffee chain plans to launch a new program on Monday that will pay for its employees to attend online college classes at Arizona State University. ” I believe it will lower attrition, it’ll increase performance, it’ll attract and retain better people I believe it will lower … Continue reading
Canada – Weak job creation in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic provinces is a big risk to the economy
Finance Minister Joe Oliver was warned in a meeting Monday with top Bay Street economists that Canadas economy is at risk unless there is more job creation in central and eastern Canada. One of those economists, Douglas Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets, told reporters after their meeting with Oliver that Alberta alone has … Continue reading
Greece – Q1 unemployment stable at 27.8 pct
Greeces jobless rate remained unchanged at 27.8 percent in the first three months of the year compared to the previous quarter, data from the countrys statistics service showed on Thursday. About 71 percent of Greeces 1.34 million jobless are long-term unemployed, meaning they have been out of work for at least 12 months, the … Continue reading
Job Openings in US – Return to prerecession levels
The number of job openings in the U.S. economy climbed to the highest level in seven years, becoming the latest labor-market gauge to recover ground lost during the recession.Job openings rose to 4.5 million in April, according to the Labor Departments job-openings and labor-turnover survey. The rate of job openings rose to 3.1% in April … Continue reading
Europe – White working class communities experience inequality and exclusion of their owns finds the Open Society Foundations
While the focus is often on the integration experiences of ethnic and minority communities across Europe, a report from the Open Society Foundations has found that white working class communities experience inequality and exclusion of their own. As manufacturing industry has made way for services and the welfare state has been rolled back, the working … Continue reading
Skills Gap in Norway – And the the most difficult to find are …
Skilled labour now tops the list of the most difficult to fill jobs in Norway, according to recruitment firm ManpowerGroup. The greatest difficulty is sourcing candidates with a vocational education. Those most in demand are: Skilled Labourers Education Professionals Engineers Sales Executives Project Managers Doctors & Medical Professionals not including Nursing Staff Accounting & Finance … Continue reading
UK – The 18-64 year age employment rate is at a record high
The 18-64 year age employment rate is at a record high The labour market data continue to show an extraordinary mix of very strong job growth and falling real wages: The number of people in work rose by 345K (1.1%) QoQ and 780K (2.6% YoY) in Feb-April, the highest QoQ gain in employment since data … Continue reading
Canada – Nobody has stepped forward to drive a national program for better labour market information says Don Drummond
Canada has poor labour market information and as a result we do not have answers to simple questions that affect Canadians’ livelihoods. Employers complain they cannot find enough skilled workers, yet the Canadian unemployment rate is far from its lowest level. Does Canada not have enough workers or are they in the wrong places with … Continue reading
African Americans high unemployment rate – They don’t give up
The so-called recovery of the US economy has not been equally kind to everyone. Even as the unemployment rate has remained steady at 6.3% last month, the unemployment rate for African Americans, coming in at 11.5%, is currently more than twice as high as that for white Americans. Last month, the difference was even larger … Continue reading
Australia – Unemployment steady at 5.8%
Australia’s strong economic performance since the start of the year has failed to increase the number of people in work. The number of people in the workforce fell by 4,800 in May, figures released on Thursday showed, when economists were expecting an increase of 10,000. Although the number of full-time workers rose 22,200, it was … Continue reading
UK – Number of employed rose by a record 345,000, to 30.5 million, most of which are in full-time employment
Comparing February to April 2014 with November 2013 to January 2014, there was a large increase in employment and a large fall in unemployment. There was a further fall in the number of economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64. These changes continue the general direction of movement over the past two years.There were … Continue reading
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