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A significant proportion of Canadian employers are still wary of taking on disabled workers, despite the fact that they acknowledge they are just as capable as their more able-bodied peers.That is according to a new study into attitudes towards ...
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Posted: 07 November 2009 13:00:00
Filed under: North America
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The official rate of unemployment in Switzerland has hit the highest level since the start of 2005, though observers have expressed optimism that the labor market will bounce back in 2010.According to the latest data released by the State ...
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Posted: 07 November 2009 11:00:00
Filed under: EU Employment
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The number of people seeking jobless benefits in the US has dropped to its lowest level since January, official figures show.According to the statistics from the Labor Department, the number of officially unemployed Americans has fallen at a ...
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Posted: 07 November 2009 09:00:00
Filed under: North America
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The Canadian government has extended the country's employment insurance (EI) benefits to include self-employed workers.Stephen Harper's Conservative-led administration has proposed legislation that will enable self-employed labor market members to ...
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Posted: 06 November 2009 13:00:00
Filed under: North America
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Canadian unemployment will rise in October as a sustainable recovery has not yet been witnessed in the private sector, a group of economists have forecast.Reuters surveyed a collection of financial experts, who predict that the North American ...
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Posted: 06 November 2009 11:00:00
Filed under: North America
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New Zealand's unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nine years in the third quarter of 2009, official figures have revealed.Statistics New Zealand disclosed that the country's jobless rate increased to 6.5 per cent in the June to September ...
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Posted: 06 November 2009 09:00:00
Filed under: Rest of the world
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The United Nations (UN) has launched an employment initiative that aims to build peace in post-conflict countries.In partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO), the UN Development Program will implement a new policy in five ...
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Posted: 05 November 2009 15:00:00
Filed under: Global Employment
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The rate of job losses witnessed in the US private sector slowed for a seventh consecutive month in October, according to a leading indicator.Automatic Data Processing and Macroeconomic Advisors have published the National Employment Report, which ...
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Posted: 05 November 2009 13:02:57
Filed under: North America
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Rising unemployment will remain a problem in the European Union (EU) for several years, according to its executive agency.The European Commission has suggested that the longest downturn in EU history will push the political union's jobless rate to a ...
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Posted: 05 November 2009 11:00:00
Filed under: EU Employment, Europe
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The economic downturn led to a dramatic slowdown in the growth of real wages last year, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).The United Nations' agency has published its Global Wage Report: 2009 Update, which forecasts that the ...
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Posted: 05 November 2009 09:00:00
Filed under: Global Employment
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The Hungarian economy will have recovered when the country's unemployment rate begins to rise.That is according to the central European nation's prime minister Gordon Bajnai, who claimed that the financial crisis will only be over in the country ...
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Posted: 04 November 2009 15:00:00
Filed under: EU Employment, Europe
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New Zealand's unemployment rate will peak sooner and at a much lower level than originally forecast, according to a senior government official.Finance minister Bill English suggested that the country's jobless rate is unlikely to reach the ...
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Posted: 04 November 2009 14:05:37
Filed under: Rest of the world
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Hiring always lags economic recovery in a downturn, president Barack Obama has informed the US labor market.Outlining his administration's priorities, the 44th US president explained that building a sustainable economy and reducing unemployment ...
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Posted: 04 November 2009 11:00:00
Filed under: North America
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The number of Spanish labor market members drawing unemployment insurance passed 3.8 million in October.That is according to figures released by the labor ministry, which revealed that jobless claims increased in the Mediterranean country by 2.7 per ...
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Posted: 04 November 2009 09:00:00
Filed under: EU Employment, Europe
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The number of initial unemployment benefit claims in South Korea fell to their lowest level in 2009 last month, according to a government department.The labor ministry disclosed that the number of individuals applying for first-time jobless benefits ...
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Posted: 03 November 2009 15:00:00
Filed under: Asia & Middle East
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Wages rose in the New Zealand labor market in the June to September period as the country's economy began to emerge from the recession.That is according to Statistics New Zealand's labor cost index, which increased in the private sector by 0.4 per ...
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Posted: 03 November 2009 13:00:00
Filed under: Rest of the world
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The US manufacturing industry is hiring more aggressively than at any time since 2006, according to a leading performance indicator.The Institute for Supply Management has published its monthly Report on Business, which revealed that its index for ...
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Posted: 03 November 2009 11:00:00
Filed under: North America
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Australian gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 1.5 per cent this year, according to the government's revised economic forecasts.Unveiled as part of the Kevin Rudd administration's mid-year budget update, the prediction is one per cent more ...
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Posted: 03 November 2009 09:00:00
Filed under: Rest of the world
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The average cost of wages in the US labor market increased by the smallest margin ever recorded in the past 12 months.The Labor Department revealed that the average value of wages, health care and other benefits for employees in the North American ...
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Posted: 02 November 2009 15:00:00
Filed under: North America
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Unemployment in the European Union (EU) increased by 0.1 per cent in September, according to the continent's statistics office.Eurostat disclosed that the political union's jobless rate rose to 9.2 per cent, which is the highest level recorded since ...
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Posted: 02 November 2009 13:00:00
Filed under: EU Employment, Europe
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