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Edison / Layoff notices to 600 non-union nuclear plant workers
Southern California Edison announced Wednesday that it had issued layoff notices to 600 non-union employees at the San Onofre nuclear plant. Continue reading
Canada / Temporary foreign workers, a permanent solution?
The permanent solution? Temporary foreign workers. Currently, more than 330,000 workers live and work in Canada as part of the federal temporary foreign worker program – a number that has nearly tripled over the last 10 years, with the bulk of those job-seekers going west in search of work Continue reading
Canada / Changes to Employment Insurance lessen access for incarcerated individuals
As of June 30, 2013, individuals who are incarcerated and found guilty of an offence for which they are being detained will no longer be able to benefit from extensions Continue reading
US / The Occupations with Oldest Jobholders
The Occupations with Oldest Jobholders in United States. Some professions naturally retain older experts – clergymen, for example. In other cases, professions are dying and unable to provide attractive opportunities for newcomers Continue reading
Canada’s New ‘Census’ / Retail jobs among most common and lowest paid | Toronto Star
Retail clerk is one of the most common jobs in Canada according to new data from the 2011 National Household Survey released Wednesday by Statistics Canada Continue reading
Sesame Street cuts Jobs
The non-profit producer of Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop, has laid off about 30 members of its workforce in order to keep up with the constant changing of digital technologies Continue reading
China / IBM to cut at least 500 job
International Business Machines Corp, the US technology giant, is cutting jobs in China after a disappointing decline in earnings. The world’s biggest computer service provider said in an e-mailed reply to China Daily on Wednesday, from its China office, that “change is constant” in the technology industry and that “transformation is an essential feature of … Continue reading
Layoffs / The Incredible Shrinking Mining Sector
Who will be left to mine the world’s metals and minerals? As prices for gold, silver, copper, uranium, and iron ore continue to fall, miners are increasingly turning to layoffs to help meet the need to contain costs. Continue reading
US / Education gap widens Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce finds
The Education Gap, the projected shortfall between the demand for workers with university degrees and the supply of Americans who have them continues to widen, according to new research from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce Continue reading
Mexico / OECD Alerts About The ‘NiNis’, Ni Estudian, Ni Trabajan, the NEET
Mexico has the highest number of young people that neither study nor work. It is the third country, among those countries that belong to the OECD and ten more, with the biggest number of what they call “the NiNis” (Ni Estudian, Ni Trabajan) Continue reading
Canada’s New ‘Census’ / Women lead in post-secondary education and Immigrants more educated than average Canadian
Canada’s New Census on Higher education: Women are continuing to outpace men, while newcomers are arriving in Canada with more post-secondary experience than the average canadian Continue reading
Canada’s New ‘Census’ / Young backing away from skilled trades
Canada is facing a looming shortage in handy skilled trades workers — including mechanics, welders and construction staff — as the number of qualified older workers approaching retirement outnumbers younger ones, according to new data from Statistics Canada Continue reading
Spain / 69 percent jump in NEETs between 2008 and 2011
One in four Spaniards aged 15–29 who have completed tertiary education, such as vocational training or the Bachillerato, are NEET — or neither employed nor in education or training Continue reading
Canada / Skilled workers lured west, Thx EI changes
Of all the provinces, Alberta registered in the 2011 survey as having the largest proportion of workers – 7.6 per cent – who were living in a different province five years earlier. Continue reading
Australia / Coal miners jobs cut by Peabody and Glencore Xstrata
Peabody Energy Corp and Glencore Xstrata will cut around 500 mining jobs in Australia, a company official and trade publication says, as a global glut in coal supply pushes down prices Continue reading
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