- Manufacturers' News, Inc. -- Industrial employment in Connecticut dropped 1.3% over the past 12 months according to the 2009 Connecticut Manufacturers Register, a compilation of state industry published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc. (MNI) Evanston, IL. The Register reports Connecticut lost 3,036 industrial jobs from May 2007 to May 2008, continuing the gradual decline the state has seen since ... [full story]
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Inflation may be flirting with double-digit figures, but Indians living in metros seem to be an optimistic lot with most of them expecting the employment scenario as well as the economic conditions to improve in the near term. Knowledge services firm Boston Analytics’ Consumer Sentiment Index (BACSI), a monthly barometer of consumer opinion regarding current state and future expectations ... [full story]
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CBS announced yesterday that college basketball analyst Billy Packer is no longer the head NCAA basketball analyst. This comes as a surprise, as I thought his tenure was akin to that of Supreme Court justices, who can urinate in their robes or author Bush v. Gore and yet keep their jobs. I worry about Packer. In retirement, with little ... [full story]
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Haywood Regional Medical Center’s new employment coordinator has a huge task — recruiting and hiring the staff necessary for the hospital to become fully operational. Since the first of June, Julia Queen has been diligently processing more than 300 applications for a number of job openings at the hospital. Of those, 33 registered nurses, nine certified nursing assistants, an ... [full story]
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Employment levels in Saskatchewan soared to record-setting levels last month, according to the latest labour force survey released by Statistics Canada on Friday. The data indicated there were 521,100 persons employed in the province last month, which was up by 11,200 compared to June of last year. The unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 4.0 per cent, which ... [full story]
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U.S. stocks on Thursday ended mostly higher in offering a benign reaction to the government's report on employment, which declined only a bit more than expected in June, offsetting worries that the ailing economy is getting worse. "I'm wondering if that (the market's reaction) is the short-day, pre-holiday weekend or that there is not enough in these numbers that ... [full story]
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Treasury prices rose Wednesday as investors prepared for another downbeat reading on the U.S. job market. On Thursday, ahead of the July 4th holiday, the Labor Department is scheduled to report on job creation and the unemployment rate in June. The bond market has long been anticipating the report to show the sixth straight month of job losses — ... [full story]
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New data from the Turkish Statistics Institute shows that the country's manufacturing industry saw a 1.7 per cent increase in employment year-on-year in the first quarter of 2008. In special report on the industry, the institute also found a 2.5 per cent increase in working hours over the same period, Today's Zaman reports. It highlighted a significant difference ... [full story]
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The Capital Area Workforce Development Board will open five SHARE Network Access Points. The new Access Points are a result of a partnership between the Capital Area Workforce Development Board, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Division of Employment and Training, the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and the State of North Carolina Division of Workforce Development. ... [full story]
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The government will implement a module formulated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which will provide community based training in skills for self-employment, employment and enterprise development for communities living in poverty as a result of the conflict and the tsunami devastation, Secretary, Ministry of Labour Relations and Man Power, Mahinda Madihahewa said. The successful pilot project in Ampara, ... [full story]
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The SHARE Network Access Points are located at: Christian Community in Action, 1231 NE Maynard Street, Cary Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 952 Morphus Bridge Road, Wendell Restoration CDC, Inc./New Bethel Baptist Church, 605 East Young Street, Rolesville Saint Matthew A.M.E. Church, 1629 Bennett Street, Raleigh Workforce Empowerment Alliance Community Team, 513 Branch Street, Raleigh in the Raleigh Safety ... [full story]
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The Rudd government last week released its National Employment Standards (NES), a set of 10 standards that will apply to all workers within the federal industrial relations system—about 85 percent of the Australian workforce—from January 2010. While Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared, “this is a core building block for the future of a fair and flexible industrial relations system,” ... [full story]
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The Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index (ETI) fell in May, continuing a decline that began in July 2007 and suggesting more softening to come in the labor market. The index fell in May by 0.5 percent to 113.7 from 114.3 in April and is down six percent since July 2007. “We forecast further softening in the labor market, a ... [full story]
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The Government said today it would strengthen employment protections for temporary and casual workers. Business New Zealand warned this could blow out costs for the Rugby World Cup and other events. But the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) said the changes would help the army of casual employees who did not know enough about their rights. Labour ... [full story]
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The total employment of all sectors in Hong Kong rose to 3.5 million last year, up 8.5% or 272,600 workers on the 2002 figure, the Census & Statistics Department says. The biggest growth was found in the real estate and business services sector which surged 18.6%. People working in the other community, social and personal services sector grew ... [full story]
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Meeting of EESC representatives with Sejm EESC urges measures to boost employment of disabled people Ms Brenda King, president of the European Economic and Social Committee Section for Employment and Social Affairs today addressed the Polish Parliament Sejm and called for action to tap a potentially large labour pool by integrating people with disabilities into the labour market. ... [full story]
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Meeting of EESC representatives with Sejm EESC urges measures to boost employment of disabled people Ms Brenda King, president of the European Economic and Social Committee Section for Employment and Social Affairs today addressed the Polish Parliament Sejm and called for action to tap a potentially large labour pool by integrating people with disabilities into the labour market. ... [full story]
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Weds. June 18, 2008: Caribbean and other immigrants in the process of adjusting to legal residency status, will soon be able to benefit from a two-year work authorization permit. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services this week announced that beginning on June 30, 2008 it will issue Employment Authorization Documents that will be valid for two years, instead of ... [full story]
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At a time when many consumers are already scrambling, working parents face a squeeze on maternity leave pay and time off. Employers are cutting back on post-childbirth pay for mothers and offering shorter leaves, on average, for both moms and dads, compared with a decade ago. This comes despite research showing that attentive nurturing has particular developmental power ... [full story]
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Budget 2008 delivered a focused and prudent economic plan for Canada which benefits all Canadians. Bill C-50 was tabled in the House of Commons this spring to implement key measures of the budget. One of those key measures was to improve the management and governance of the Employment Insurance (EI) program through the creation of the Canada Employment Insurance ... [full story]
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In a marked shift from the previous Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summits (VGGIS), which revolved around investments, the focus of next year's summit will be employment generation. Giving clear indications that the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2009 will not revolve around just Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)s and investment figures, chief minister Narendra Modi said the summit, which ... [full story]
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India's net employment in July-Sept 2008 is seen rising 6 percent over the last quarter despite a global slowdown, a survey by staffing firm Manpower showed on Tuesday. "The job market in India is expected to remain positive yet cautious in the third quarter," the report said. Of the 32 countries surveyed, India ranks number one with overall ... [full story]
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UNEMPLOYED homeless people are being given the opportunity to get a job. Run by Ealing Council, the initiative will offer training, employment information and guidance. Housing staff will work with people they come across to help them get into employment. The scheme is being run in partnership with six other west London boroughs. The west London ... [full story]
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In contrast to a general trend of students avoiding engineering majors, engineering graduates enjoy the highest employment rate at large conglomerates, with the exception of medical and pharmacy graduates. The Labor Ministry's Korea Employment Information Service on Monday released a research report on four-year college graduates showing that 39.7 percent of engineering graduates have found jobs at large conglomerates. ... [full story]
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The Camrose and Wetaskiwin Service Canada Centre for Youth (SCCY) is now open for business. We are happy to be open for the summer and to assist businesses and youth with their summer employment needs. SCCY creates a vital link between youth and employers. It helps young people by providing job postings, and by helping them with resume-building, interview techniques, ... [full story]
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Foreign direct investment businesses will be allowed to run employment services in Vietnam through a decree drafted to replace the government decree on employment generation. Submitted to the government by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), the draft decree allows businesses including foreign-invested enterprises, to set up establishments to provide employment services once they have ... [full story]
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The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment is holding a two-day meeting with International Labour Organisation, ILO by Wednesday in New Delhi for seeking out the way of achieving 3.9 percent employment growth per annum to meet the target of employment for all by 2012. The delegates of ILO are these days in India and holding the meeting with ... [full story]
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While the debate rages around whether Ireland has a future in manufacturing or services, Knock, Co Mayo native Frank Salmon knows what it takes to set up a services business and run it from a regional base. But one disturbing factor to emerge is that employing executives in Kiltimagh in the west of Ireland is now almost as expensive ... [full story]
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The U.S. Department of Labor, the Ministry of Labor and Employment in Brazil, and the Organization of American States (OAS) jointly will host a seminar on youth employment in Rio de Janeiro from Tuesday, May 20, through Wednesday, May 21. Charlotte M. Ponticelli, the Labor Department's deputy undersecretary for International Affairs, will lead the U.S. delegation. The seminar will ... [full story]
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The court of appeal has overturned an employment tribunal ruling that workers supplied to the meat processing and other service industries were to be regarded as employees of the agency. The employment tribunal had found initially, when hearing a case concerning a group of Polish workers, that Consistent Group of Shrewsbury was in fact the employer of some of ... [full story]
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THE on-going recruitment exercise being conducted by the Delta state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service Asaba has been characterised with large scale racketing allegedly being perpetuated by some officials of the command, investigation has shown. The command located near the Asaba bridge Head for the past two weeks is besieged daily by anxious applicants seeking recruitment. However, ... [full story]
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HOUSANDS of people living in one of the most deprived areas of the South Wales Valleys are to be offered help to get back to work, it was announced today. Deputy Minister for Regeneration Leighton Andrews today launched JobMatch, which aims to get more people in the former coal and steel industry areas of the Heads of the Valleys ... [full story]
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