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New Mexico / Voters might decide if minimum wage is indexed
Lawmakers are considering a proposal to allow voters to decide whether New Mexico’s minimum wage should be increased annually for inflation. The House Labor and Human Resources Committee has scheduled a hearing Tuesday on the proposed constitutional amendment. The measure is sponsored by the committee’s chairman, Democratic Rep. Miguel Garcia of Albuquerque. The state’s minimum … Continue reading
US Workforce Development / Layoffs At State Unemployment Agencies
Businesses added 166,000 jobs in January, the U.S. Labor Department announced Friday, while the government eliminated 9,000. The twin trends have been a signature of the past three years of economic recovery. For some state workforce agency staffers, the overall improvement is bad news. With fewer people claiming unemployment insurance benefits, state unemployment agencies will … Continue reading
Symantec / Layoffs to come
Symantec Corp, which completed a strategic review in January, plans to lay off a significant number of managers and reorganize internally into 10 main business areas, but has decided not to sell off major assets for now. Chief Executive Officer Steve Bennett told Reuters in an exclusive interview that Janice Chaffin, consumer business president, will … Continue reading
US / 14 Reasons for an Employment Policy
We Americans must be a remarkably patient people. It ‘s been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we’re nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how much more – they’ll do about it. We’ve patiently endured lectures about … Continue reading
Taiwan / Foxconn to boost worker participation in union ?
Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of most of the world’s top-selling electronic gadgets including Apple Inc’s iPhone, is trying to raise participation in its union as part of efforts to dispel a rash of bad publicity over poor working conditions and labor disputes. Taiwan’s Foxconn, which employs more than 1 million people, mostly in China … Continue reading
South Africa / New minimum to take effect from March 1
The new rate, R36 more than the current minimum wage of R69 a day, would take effect from March 1. “The new minimum wage… is R105 per day for employees who work nine hours a day, or R11.66 per hour, R525 weekly, or R2274.82 per month,” Oliphant told reporters in Pretoria. This new sectoral determination would … Continue reading
Ireland / Dublin’s Convention Centre on Saturday / Career Zooto offer 3,500 jobs
Some of Ireland’s leading employers will gather in Dublin’s Convention Centre on Saturday to offer graduates up to 3,500 positions. The Career Zoo is being organised by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, among others. Commenting on the initiative, Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said: “The Government’s plan for jobs and growth is focused on … Continue reading
Sweden / Minister says number of immigrants too high
Sweden’s immigration minister has told a newspaper that Sweden needs to tighten rules for asylum seekers and other would-be immigrants to reduce the number of people coming into the country. “Today Sweden is one of the countries that receives the most immigrants in the EU. That’s not sustainable,” Tobias Billstroem told the Saturday edition of … Continue reading
NY Thruway / 234 layoffs
The New York State Thruway Authority is planning 234 layoffs to help shore up its finances, but no toll increases are planned. Thruway spokesman Dan Weiller says the layoffs of full-time workers will be in all regions, including the Albany headquarters. The authority employs 2,968 workers. Weiller says no toll increases of any type are … Continue reading
Minneapolis–Saint-Paul / Helping women find jobs
Lonna Szczesny has helped thousands of women gain skills and move from unemployment to work or a better job. Now she’s retiring after 23 years at the nonprofit Resource, most recently as director of women’s programs at the nonprofit’s Employment Action Center. She recently received the inaugural “lifetime achievement award” of the Minnesota Women’s Consortium. … Continue reading
San Antonio and Toyota / A Local Employment policy
“We learned a lot with Toyota,” he said. “The wonderful thing about having such a world-class company come and choose to bring high-paying manufacturing jobs is that it amplified the value of the state to have a cohesive outreach plan on the state and local level.” A decade later, officials again have teamed up, this … Continue reading
US / At 2012 pace, full employment won’t come until 2022
The jobs numbers have been crunched and re-crunched, and it turns out that the U.S. economy added an average of 181,000 jobs per month in 2012. That’s a faster rate than in 2011 or 2010. But it’s also relatively sluggish, given the deep, deep hole the economy is still in. If the United States keeps adding … Continue reading
US / Closing the Gap: German Skills Initiative hosted in Washington
On Tuesday, January 29th, the German Embassy in Washington, DC hosted “The German Skills Initiative” with many heads of both U.S. and German corporations in attendance. Alongside German Ambassador Peter Ammon, the speakers included U.S. Secretary of Commerce Dr. Rebecca Blank, German Deputy Chief Executive of International Economic Affairs Dr. Volker Treir, CEO of Siemens … Continue reading
Boston, England / The influx of immigrants in a small British city
When Ziedonis Barbaks arrived in Boston, England, to work at a meat-packing plant nine years ago, the city was a pretty lonely place for someone from Latvia. Almost nobody came from his home country or from just about anywhere else outside of Britain. Today there are not only hundreds of Latvians in Boston but thousands … Continue reading
Israel / GE planning wide-scale layoffs
Corporation to fire about half of 500 employees in healthcare division’s R&D centers in Israel, company worker tells Ynet. Management sources say only 10% of workforce to be dismissed According to a company source, more than half of the division’s 500 employees in all research and development centers in Israel will be fired. The company … Continue reading
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