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The unemployment rate in Brazil in January was recorded at 5.4 per cent, and this is the lowest measurement documented for the month since records began in March 2002. At the minimum, the figure therefore represents a decade-long trough.Even though ...
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Posted: 27 February 2013 16:46:02
Filed under: Global Employment, Latin America
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At the Federal National Council's committee on Health, Labour and Social Affairs, members of the authoritative group as well as spokespeople for public and private sector employment expressed their concern about the state of the job market in ...
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Posted: 26 February 2013 16:46:37
Filed under: Asia & Middle East, Global Employment
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Many governments across the continents provide some form of financial security to citizens whom the job market is failing. These benefits help to keep residents economically active, and ensure that fewer people experience poverty, thus providing a ...
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Posted: 22 February 2013 16:17:23
Filed under: Global Employment, North America
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The number of Chileans applying for employment positions in the military is at its lowest level since 2007, and unless there is significant uptake in the remaining enlistment period, the armed forces of the nation could shrink considerably.It is ...
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Posted: 21 February 2013 16:55:28
Filed under: Global Employment, Latin America
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UK unemployment dropped by 0.1 percentage points between the third and the fourth quarter to reach 7.8 per cent, putting the rate at its lowest level in almost a year. Figures show that there were typically 2.5 million economically active citizens ...
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Posted: 21 February 2013 16:54:02
Filed under: Europe, Global Employment
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The unemployment rate recorded in Greece in November 2012 grew to a worrying 27 per cent, as 1,350,181 jobseekers were out of work. This has increased moderately by 0.4 percentage points on a monthly basis, but the year-on-year rise is a ...
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Posted: 15 February 2013 16:51:49
Filed under: Europe, Global Employment
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An increase to the national wage in Thailand has apparently resulted in thousands of employees losing their jobs. It seems that many businesses are struggling to cope with the additional expenditure, and so are turning to redundancies in order to ...
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Posted: 13 February 2013 16:49:42
Filed under: Asia & Middle East, Global Employment
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Seasonally adjusted estimations from the US Department of Labor indicate that the number of citizens claiming unemployment benefit fell by 5,000 across the week ending February 2nd to reach 366,000.As a result, the four-weekly figure, which may be a ...
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Posted: 08 February 2013 16:55:22
Filed under: Global Employment, North America
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A significant boost to the number of part-time staff members has been a main drive in a boost to Australia's employment rates in January. An additional 22,000 opportunities were made during the month, and females filled most of the roles.In ...
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Posted: 07 February 2013 16:56:14
Filed under: Global Employment, Rest of the world
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The number of job advertisements being taken out in Australia dropped for the 11th consecutive month in January, indicating that the employment market has been gradually shrinking across the year.Figures are usually irregular over the holiday ...
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Posted: 05 February 2013 16:52:01
Filed under: Global Employment, Rest of the world
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The unemployment rate in Brazil dropped to a ten-year low in 2012, as just 5.5 per cent of the population found themselves out of work. This figure dropped by 0.5 percentage points annually, demonstrating a gradually improving market.Statistics ...
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Posted: 05 February 2013 16:50:42
Filed under: Global Employment, Latin America
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In Chile, the average unemployment rate in the fourth quarter dropped to just 6.1 per cent - the lowest proportion in almost six years. These findings indicate a significant recovery in the job market that is helping both domestic and migrant ...
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Posted: 01 February 2013 16:58:37
Filed under: Global Employment, Latin America
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Most businesses know of the benefits of team building and the way these sort of exercises and courses can improve the morale of their team. However, in spite of this, many do not act on it, and risk the loss of productivity and togetherness within ...
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Posted: 25 January 2013 16:40:58
Filed under: Asia & Middle East, Global Employment
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Officials at Brazil's National Immigration Council have moved to make changes to the working visa applications process for those skilled workers coming to find jobs in the country. The alterations come as the governmental organization has ...
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Posted: 11 January 2013 16:59:30
Filed under: Global Employment
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New laws have come into force in the first few days of 2013 in Ukraine, after the country pledged throughout 2012 to make it easier for certain groups to become integrated into the workforce where they would previously have found it difficult to get ...
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Posted: 04 January 2013 13:01:14
Filed under: Europe, Global Employment
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The government in Chile is looking to assist temporary staff who are operating in the agricultural sector as a way of making it possible for them to work more flexibly and account for the uncertain nature of working in this industry.There can be ...
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Posted: 03 January 2013 16:51:29
Filed under: Global Employment, Latin America
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In rich countries around the world, women do more hours at work than their male counterparts, a new report has discovered, but only if unpaid work is included in the reckoning.Conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ...
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Posted: 21 December 2012 16:46:16
Filed under: Europe, Global Employment
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People looking for a better chance to find work and riches will often look to move to countries such as the US or the UK, or in recent years the US and Canada. However, increasing financial strength and economic growth across Central and South ...
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Posted: 20 December 2012 15:54:06
Filed under: Global Employment, Latin America
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Companies that are looking for the best ways to improve the levels of productivity and the quality of work that they receive from their employees are often advised to make sure that morale is high, as a happy worker will be more likely to operate ...
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Posted: 18 December 2012 16:55:09
Filed under: Global Employment, Latin America
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The way that companies choose to operate has been adapted because of the global economic crisis, according to a new report.Switzerland-based International Labour Organization released its Global Wage Report for 2012/13 and revealed that employees ...
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Posted: 10 December 2012 11:44:53
Filed under: Global Employment
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