While praise is due to civil servants who have turned these schemes around with unusual rapidity, there have also been anomalies, resulting in some people being better off being laid off than kept on by their employer – particularly those in lower paid jobs. RTÉ has been told of examples of younger workers, for example students with … Continue reading
[Last week) report begins to reveal the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment. More than 700,000 jobs were lost since February. But the world has changed even in the three weeks since these data were collected (second week of March), and the end of this story is not yet in sight. As the chart … Continue reading
The trends around future of work are leading to an unleashed organization, connected on digital platforms, and able to work anywhere at anytime. These changes are impacting all industries as advances in technology fundamentally change the work itself, who does the work, and where it needs to be done. An organization with a Future of … Continue reading
As COVID-19 continues to shift the daily rhythms of Canadian households, millions of Canadians are feeling the pinch to balance competing demands of work and family. What are their employers doing to help? The Conference Board has asked organizations across Canada how they’re accommodating employees with family responsibilities. Here’s what we found. Chosen excerpts by … Continue reading
The Global Food Security Index considers the core issues of affordability, availability, and quality across a set of 113 countries. The index is a dynamic quantitative and qualitative benchmarking model, constructed from 34 unique indicators, that measures these drivers of food security across both developing and developed countries. This index is the first to examine … Continue reading
Mobilisation exceptionnelle pour l’emploi : lancement d’une plateforme de recrutement Pour renforcer les recrutements dans les secteurs prioritaires, dans le respect de la protection des salariés. En cette période de crise sanitaire, le Gouvernement a lancé la plateforme #MobilisationEmploi – portée par Pôle emploi – pour faire « bloc ». Objectif : favoriser les recrutements au sein des secteurs … Continue reading
La crise sans précédent du COVID-19 nécessite la mobilisation et la solidarité de tous. Pour accompagner les établissements de santé de plusieurs régions, la ministre du Travail, Muriel Pénicaud, a décidé de mobiliser des enveloppes exceptionnelles du Plan d’investissement dans les compétences (PIC) pour permettre aux élèves-infirmiers et élèves aides-soignants de venir en renfort du … Continue reading
The concept of a recession is binary and blunt. All it says is that expectations have flipped from positive to negative growth, at least for two consecutive quarters. We think the bigger scenario question revolves around the shape of the shock — what we call “shock geometry” — and its structural legacy. What drives the … Continue reading
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @ Full text: Canada releases projections for COVID-19 epidemic that show worst-case scenario with 350,000 deaths | National Post
This free PDF download from TechRepublic offers tips for how to land the job from afar and best practices for hosting online interviews. In the download: How COVID-19 is impacting job seekers and hiring managers Hiring precautions due to the coronavirus How to nail a job interview via video conferencing How to hire a top … Continue reading
Ray Dalio believes we are hitting a depression similar to that of the 1930s, which will take years of financial and economic reconfiguration and human ingenuity to recover from, as he discussed in a Wednesday Ted Connects talk. “We’re not going to go back the way it was,” said Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio in … Continue reading
On top of ventilators, face masks and health care workers, you can now add COBOL programmers to the list of what several states urgently need as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has put out a call for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer programming language called … Continue reading
The wide range of possibilities for the predicted decline is explained by the unprecedented nature of this health crisis and the uncertainty around its precise economic impact. But WTO economists believe the decline will likely exceed the trade slump brought on by the global financial crisis of 2008‑09 (Chart 1). Estimates of the expected recovery in … Continue reading
L’emploi a diminué de plus de 1 million en mars (-1 011 000 ou -5,3 %). Le taux d’emploi – ou la proportion de personnes âgées de 15 ans et plus occupant un emploi – a baissé de 3,3 points de pourcentage pour s’établir à 58,5 %. Il s’agit du taux le plus bas depuis … Continue reading
The topic of social isolation continues to be a part of the daily conversation as employees across Canada deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. For those living alone who have been asked to work from home to support social-distancing policies, it’s understandable that some may be struggling with this isolation period. But it’s important that we … Continue reading