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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
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
Kenya / Corruption Costs 250,000 Jobs – New World Bank Report
Corruption accounts for loss of resources enough to create 250,000 jobs in Kenya annually, the World Bank has said. In its latest economic update titled ‘Kenya at Work’, the report says an enterprise survey found out that firms pay up to 12 per cent of value of government contracts to win them and four per … Continue reading
Canada/ Employment rose by 59,000 and unemployment rate declined to to 5-month low 7.2%
Following little change in October, employment rose by 59,000 in November, the result of an increase in full-time work. The unemployment rate declined 0.2 percentage points to 7.2%. Chart 1 Employment Compared with 12 months earlier, employment increased 1.7% or 294,000, mostly in full-time work. Over the same period, the total number of hours worked rose 1.3%. In November, employment increased in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba and … Continue reading
UK / Remploy closures / More disabled workers losing jobs
Hundreds more disabled workers at Remploy factories are at risk of losing their jobs under fresh closure plans, the Government announced today. A further 875 employees, including 682 disabled people, have been told they face compulsory redundancy. Ministers announced earlier this year that a number of Remploy factories would close, arguing that the budget for disabled employment … Continue reading
Skills Gap a myth, employers are simply using the wrong hiring criteria
At this writing, the unemployment rate in the United States is 7.9%, yet, according to Manpower, one out of every two U.S. employers is struggling to fill mission-critical jobs. How can that be? In my view, based on my company’s work with more than 28,000 businesses around the world and our assessment of over 3.5 … Continue reading
The Grand Disconnect – Employers, education providers, and youth
“Around the world, governments and businesses face a conundrum: high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with critical skills” writes Mona Mourshed, Diana Farrell, and Dominic Barton in a McKinsey in Its report Education to Employment Designing a system that works. (Adapted choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow) How can a country successfully move … Continue reading
UK / NHS Direct call centre closures / 1,500 jobs at risk in say unions
Almost 1,500 jobs are at risk because of the replacement of NHS Direct, the nursing union has said. The Royal College of Nursing said NHS Direct would close 24 of its 30 call centres and it had emerged in a consultation that up to 1,482 “wholetime equivalent” staff could lose their jobs. Instead the public … Continue reading
Nokia Siemens Network / 1,000 jobs at risk
Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Finnish and German engineering giants Nokia and Siemens, said Wednesday it will shut down its German networks services unit, putting 1,000 jobs at risk. “Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to close its German unit Nokia Siemens Networks Services, a network infrastructure services provider in the area of traditional … Continue reading
Pratt and Whitney / Layoffs will be announced
Company and union officials said on Wednesday that layoffs will be announced at Pratt & Whitney, though the number of employees who would be laid off and at which locations the layoffs would be from was not yet available. Bryan Kidder, a company spokesman, said that the company was finalizing a statement on the job … Continue reading
New York / Minimum-wage hike would kill 22,000 jobs over the next decade finds The National Federation of Independent Business
A proposal to hike the state’s minimum wage would kill 22,000 jobs over the next decade and cut economic output by $2.5 billion, New York’s small- business lobby claimed in a study released yesterday. The National Federation of Independent Business report estimates that seven of every 10 job losses would occur in small businesses, which … Continue reading
Thailand / Private firms call for action as nationwide minimum wage hike looms
Thailand’s private sector today called on the government to take serious action to alleviate entrepreneurs’ financial burdens after the January 1 nationwide increase of the daily minimum wage to Bt300. Payungsak Chartsutipol, president of the Federation of Thai Industries, said a meeting of the Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industries and Banking (JSCCIB) agreed to … Continue reading
ADP Report : November jobs hit by Superstorm Sandy
Superstorm Sandy took a bite out of businesses hiring in November, according to a closely watched reading that suggests a weak Labor Department jobs report could be coming this Friday. Payroll processing firm ADP reported that private-sector employers added 118,000 jobs in the month, down from the 157,000 jobs added by businesses the previous month. … Continue reading
UK / Exchanging workers’ rights for shares: Employers reject George Osborne’s plan
George Osborne has been given a black eye on the eve of his autumn statement by employers almost universally rejecting his plan to offer workers company shares in return for abandoning many of their employment rights. The chancellor plans to announce on Wednesday that he will press ahead with the proposal, with some small adjustments. … Continue reading
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