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Reshoring in UK / China wage hike spurs trend ?
It moved half its production to China to keep costs down, but eight years later one company is bringing production back to Britain. It’s another example of the backshoring trend that has seen many European manufacturers relocate their business back home. Caldeira is a cushion-making business headquartered in Merseyside, Northern England. Since 2004 it has … Continue reading
Canada / Upturn in youth jobs picture
For months on end, the jobs picture among Canadian youth has been either little improved or deteriorating. That shifted Friday, with a report showing 16,300 new jobs were added for the 15-to-24-year-old crowd last month. That was sufficient to bring their unemployment rate down to 14 per cent from 14.7 per cent in October. Employment … Continue reading
Tennessee / Access America Transport’s expansion will bring 550 jobs
The expansion of a Tennessee-based company will bring 550 jobs to the Volunteer State over the next four years. The state and company officials announced on Monday that Access America Transport will expand its Chattanooga and Knoxville facilities, adding 450 additional jobs in Chattanooga and 100 new jobs at the Knoxville facility. I want to … Continue reading
Korea / Motorola / More than 500 jobs cut
Motorola Mobility will close “most” of its South Korean operations by 2013, according to a leaked internal memo. According to the memo (in Korean), the move is part of a continued global restructuring effort by its parent company Google, which bought the smartphone maker earlier this year for $12.5 billion. Since then, however, restructuring costs have … Continue reading
Germany / Opel: 3,100 Jobs at Risk
General Motors Co. (GM)’s Opel division will stop making cars at its plant in Bochum, Germany, in 2016, threatening 3,100 jobs, as the U.S. automaker seeks to stem European losses during a prolonged vehicle-market contraction. Opel will end auto production at the factory when the current version of the Zafira minivan is replaced, the unit, … Continue reading
Canada / Immigration / New skilled trades program
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is set to unveil the details of a new program that should speed the arrival of tradespeople in Canada whose skills are in demand. The program will give more weight to applications from people with skills that are desperately needed in many parts of the country, particularly in the West, according … Continue reading
China / 31.2 million high-skilled workers, 4.9 million more than at the end of 2009
China’s high-skilled workers reached 31.2 million as of the end of 2011, 4.9 million more than at the end of 2009, according to official data released on Saturday. High-skilled workers accounted for 26.2 percent of China’s 119 million skilled workforce as of the end of 2011, up 1.5 percentage points from the end of 2009, … Continue reading
Layoffs / Ten global companies cut 100,000 jobs in 2012
With an aim to save costs in troubled economic times, just 10 companies together have announced nearly one lakh job cuts worldwide since start of 2012 and they include giants like HP, Google and Citigroup. While these companies come from a wide array of businesses, the reason behind layoffs has mostly been cost-cutting efforts in … Continue reading
UK / Youth Work Experience Scheme / Kids need to be given real jobs
T’S easy to start believing it. It’s easy to start believing it even when it’s George Osborne saying it. Easy to start believing that everyone on benefits is a workshy scrounger when the rest of us are skint and wondering how our wages will stretch to payday never mind Christmas. It’s easy to start believing … Continue reading
(UPDATE) US / Unemployment Rate Falls to Four-Year Low / Sandy: no substantively impact the job market
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 146,000 in November, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in retail trade, professional and business services, and health care. Household Survey Data The unemployment rate edged down to 7.7 percent in November. The number of unemployed … Continue reading
Canada / Mandarin: a requirement for jobs at B.C. mine
A mining company under scrutiny over its plan to bring 201 Chinese miners to a proposed project in northern British Columbia listed Mandarin as a language requirement when it applied for temporary foreign worker permits, newly released documents reveal. The Federal Court released a package of documents Friday linked to HD Mining’s proposed Murray River … Continue reading
Looking For a Job in China ? Procedure for Employment in Beijing
Procedure for Employment in Beijing Employment of foreigners in Beijing refers those who have not obtained the right of permanent residence and who work and receive remunerations for their work in accordance with law within the Chinese territory. Those foreigners who have not obtained residence permits (holders of F, L, C and G visas), and … Continue reading
Newsweek Layoffs Coming / A bloodbath says a source
A source calls the layoffs “a bloodbath” and estimates that half the editorial staff will be gone. Newsweek’s print edition is ending in a matter of weeks, and the anticipated staff changes have already begun. Layoffs are expected to be announced this afternoon, a tipster tells us. Meanwhile, we hear that a few editors are proactively … Continue reading
Oscar maker plans layoffs
The Chicago company that makes the familiar gold-plated Oscar statues is laying off almost 100 employees as it’s bought by a Canadian firm. But some workers could be rehired. R.S. Owens & Co. Inc. said this week in a notice to the Illinois Department of Commerce that it will lay off 95 workers on Dec. … Continue reading
US / Offshoring / About 663,000 large-company service jobs heading offshore
Service companies have been sending jobs abroad in large numbers the past decade to cut labor costs — a trend that accelerated in the recession and is expected to continue the next few years before slowing after 2016. About 663,000 large-company jobs in information technology, human resources, finance and purchasing — the category that includes … Continue reading
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