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Unemployment Claims in US – The four-week moving average for new claims lowest since 2007
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, pointing to a strengthening labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 300,000 for the week ended May 24, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The prior weeks claims were revised to show … Continue reading
LinkedIn in US – To Aggregate Job Listings
With the announcement this morning that it would begin to aggregate jobs from U.S. employers, LinkedIn took a big step to building its Economic Graph, and realizing its plan to provide all the world’s open jobs to all the world’s workers. Beginning June 2nd, LinkedIn will offer hundreds of thousands of jobs aggregated from the … Continue reading
Jobs for Grads in UK – Nine in ten bosses say they can’t find good enough candidates
To many job-seeking graduates, it seems unbelievable – but a new survey suggests that many employers are struggling to fill their graduate vacancies for this year. With nearly nine in ten graduate employers admitting they have positions that they can’t find suitable candidates for, there could be hundreds of good quality, well-paid graduate roles currently … Continue reading
The Talent War – Workplace flexibility is the key (Infographic)
As if finding great employees wasn’t enough of a problem for small business owners, keeping them poses yet another HR challenge. Plantronics Workplace Flexibility Survey of 270 small business owners conducted last year by the Corporate Executive Board found that 44 percent say that finding and retaining talent is the most difficult aspect of HR/labor … Continue reading
UK – Antidepressant use soared during the recession with 12.5m more pills prescribed in 2012 than in 2007
The use of antidepressants rose significantly in England during the financial crisis and subsequent recession, with 12.5m more pills prescribed in 2012 than in 2007, a study has found. Researchers from the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation identified a long-term trend of increasing prescription of antidepressants, rising from 15m items in 1998 to 40m … Continue reading
Unemployment in Germany – Biggest rise in five years in May
German unemployment posted its strongest monthly rise in over five years in May, but the Labour Office said mild winter weather was largely to blame for the unexpectedly weak figures. The number of people out of work increased by 24,000 to 2.905 million on a seasonally-adjusted basis, data showed on Wednesday. It was the largest … Continue reading
US – Big Business helps overseas, less so at home Americans think Gallup finds
Americans see large U.S. companies as having a more positive effect overseas than they do domestically. While 66% of Americans believe that large U.S. companies do a good job creating good jobs for citizens in other countries where they do business, far fewer, 43%, say the companies do a good job of creating jobs for … Continue reading
BHP and Rio Tinto in Australian – Further job cuts to come
Mining majors BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have warned that the Australian mining industry will witness more mine closures and job losses this year due to the combination of high costs, high taxes and strong currency. BHP Billiton global coal president Dean Dalla Valle was quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald as saying that the … Continue reading
Wal-Mart Canada – 750 layoffs
Wal-Mart Canada has confirmed it laid off hundreds of employees across the country earlier this month in a move to rework its management structure. The Arkansas-based retailer said it eliminated 750 jobs — which is says represented less than one per cent of staff — after testing a new management structure in select stores. As … Continue reading
US – 25% are saving $0 for retirement
Retirement savings for about a quarter of Americans amounts to … $0. One in every four Americans is not saving for retirement at all, either because they are not thinking about it, do not really know how or, worse, do not feel they can afford to, according to a report by Country Financial. Americans ages … Continue reading
Ireland – Unemployment rate falls by 0.2% in the quarter
The change, from 12.2% to 12%, failed to reach a 11.8% rate estimated in recent claims data. Unemployment fell for the eighth quarter in a row from a high of 15.1%, but did not match the eurozone average of 11.8%. via BBC News – Ireland unemployment rate falls by 0.2% in the quarter.
Taiwan – 70 percent of young people are enrolled in universities but only 40 percent of the available jobs need a higher degree
The skills gap between graduates and the job market has reached an alarming level, according to a recent survey released by National Taiwan University’s (NTU) Center for Public Policy and Law, with three out of seven college graduates encountering difficulties landing a job that matches their education. The poll shows that while nearly 70 percent … Continue reading
Unemployment Insurance Trust Funds in US in Chart
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Debt, State by State. Related articles US – Unemployment Insurance Trust Funds battered by the Great Recession Unemployment Insurance in US – State program loans from the Treasury larger than in any previous recession research finds
Spanish migrants to Germany – Up 19 percent in 2013
A total of 44,119 people left Spain for Germany in 2013, 19 percent more than the previous year, stats from Germany’s official stats body show. Spain came sixth in the table of countries supplying new immigrants to Germany in 2013, behind Poland (197,000), Romania (135,416), Italy (60,651), Bulgaria (59,3239) and Hungary (58,993). Out of the … Continue reading
Banff – 27.3 per cent population immigrants in 2011, not including temporary foreign workers
While debate about the future of the foreign worker program, and an increase in immigrants more generally, continues to rage across Canada, a different kind of discussion is taking place here. In the cafes and tourist shops that line Banff Avenue, the conversation centres not on whether transitory new immigrants are stealing jobs from long-time … Continue reading
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