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Job | Technological Know-How is a Must
“As the internet has grown from 70 million users in 1997 to 2.2 billion, entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. For example, Square, the new electronic payment service, has already upended a long-established financial ecosystem, with some arguing that it may even replace cash” writes Daniel … Continue reading
U.S. | Job Market Improving | Quits increase and the number of unemployed per job opening falls
“Quits tend to rise when there is a perception that jobs are available and tend to fall when there is a perception that jobs are scarce” writes BLS. The good news, they are rising. Moreover, the number of unemployed persons per job opening is decreasing. The number of quits has exceeded the number of layoffs and discharges … Continue reading
Australia | More Westpac jobs go offshore
The Australian – WESTPAC is ramping up its outsourcing strategy by sending a further 126 positions offshore, adding to the growing number of job losses across the finance sector and sparking calls the banks are in a “race to the bottom” to rein in costs to protect profits. After cutting at least 748 jobs across … Continue reading
Germany | Protesters ask to “Protect Solar Jobs!”
Renewable Energy – “We are the energy transition!” read one of the many placards hoisted in the air at the Germany-wide “Stop the Solar Energy Exit” demonstration at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Monday. According to the event’s organizers, 11,000 people were on hand for the protest against the Merkel government’s energy policies. The protesters and … Continue reading
China | Manufacturing | To dominate the Solar Industry
Huff Post – That the goal of the Chinese is to dominate the global solar and renewable energy industry is clear. A report released in February by the Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Trade titled “Losing the Environmental Goods Economy to China” provides ample evidence. According to the Subcommittee’s report: • The U.S. trade deficit in … Continue reading
UK | Firms asked to stop hiring foreign workers by minister Damian Green
NDTV – Amid increasing curbs on Indian and other non-EU professionals, UK authorities on Tuesday asked companies in the country to stop their “addiction” to recruiting foreign workers and hire local workers instead. Thousands of Indian professionals migrate to the UK under the ‘intra-company transfer’ and other routes, but recent and proposed changes have been strongly … Continue reading
Cloud Computing | 14 Million New Jobs by 2015 and US$1.1 trillion a year in new business
Microsoft – A new Microsoft-funded IDC study shows businesses that move to the cloud are freeing up time and money to invest in innovation and job creation. Among the study’s findings: • Cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015. • By 2015, business revenues from IT innovation enabled by … Continue reading
Nissan’s Sunderland success story
BBC: Nissan’s decision to build its new Invitation car in Sunderland is the third statement of confidence in the plant in the last two years. In 2010 the company announced plans to manufacture the new electric Leaf in Wearside and last year it said it would also produce the new Qashqai on the site. The … Continue reading
Job Gap | 600 M Jobs missing in the world | 12 M in U.S. | A factor behind income inequalities
The extensive Job Gap as tremendous impact. According to the 2012 of the ILO report on Global Employment Trends(GET), the world facesa Global Job Gap of 600 million jobs.
Apple says it is supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs | Reactions
Apple is Supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs according to Apple itself. You can read the argument @ Apple. “Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who … Continue reading
Layoffs by governments at local level hardly help job recovery and investment in education is falling by the way
Layoffs at the local level, by local administrations, we could say, by local government, are so numerous that we could post them on a separated blog. This hardly helps job recovery. Moreover, investment in education is falling by the way. Krugman thinks it is bad politics and we agree. …If it weren’t for this destructive … Continue reading
Permanent Layoffs in Canada | Only around 40% are “rare” events, particularly among older workers
A new study by Statistics Canada by Garnett Picot, Zhengxi Lin and Wendy Pyper uses a new longitudinal data source on the separations of workers to address three issues: First, has there in fact been an increase in the permanent layoff rate in Canada in the 1990s, as one might anticipate given concerns about rising job instability? … Continue reading
Apple | Supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs
Many people are concerned about the labor that supports the creation of Apple products overseas, for instance at the enormous Foxconn facility in China. But look over here, Apple said today. Among manufacturing, transportation, app development and Apple’s own workforce, Apple estimated it supports 514,000 jobs in the United States. Nobody at Apple is running … Continue reading
Windsor | Skills Gap | CS Wind is having trouble finding 100 skilled workers
The fact that CS Wind is having trouble finding 100 skilled workers for its Windsor plant – and will have to look outside the region – might seem incongruous given that we have high unemployment and people eager to work. But it’s also a reflection of something that is happening in other parts of the … Continue reading
Indian Workers | Europe allows 40,000
At least 40,000 Indians may be allowed to work in Europe, including 12,000 in Britain alone, under a secret trade plan between the European Union and New Delhi, a media report said, citing leaked documents. The EU has proposed that 40,000 Indian workers will be admitted to Europe without any labour market test as part … Continue reading
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