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Labour market poised for recovery
Ottawa :: Canada | 12 days ago
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A third consecutive month of increases in online job postings suggests the Canadian labour market has hit bottom and is set to recover in the months ahead, says a report Thursday from the Conference Board of Canada. After an uninterrupted nine-month slide,...
Tags: labour market, Canada, Ottawa
Business Day, South Africa: SA loses 179000 jobs in one quarter as slump hits hard
Cape Town :: South Africa | 5 months ago
Credibility THE formal economy shed 179000 jobs in the first quarter as fallout from SA’s first recession in 17 years took its toll, official figures showed yesterday. Employment in the nonfarm sector was 2,1 % down on that of last year’s fourth quarter, with retail...
Tags: labour market
Unemployment rising in down economy
Ottawa :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility The May employment report shows that while the pace of losses may be slowing, the U.S. labour market is still hemorrhaging jobs," wrote Heidi Shierholz for Washington-based economic think tank the Economic Policy Institute. Dark forest The International...
Tags: Statistics Canada, unemployment rate, job losses, Ontario, labour market, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
Kate Sheppard would be furious says union
Auckland :: New Zealand | 6 months ago
Credibility The Service and Food Workers Union represents 24,000 members, nearly 70% of whom are women. Northern Regional Secretary Jill Ovens says the disbanding of the unit is a tragedy and another step in the National led government revealing it’s true colours....
Tags: Labour Department, Department of Labour, pay equity, New Zealand, government job, Dept of Labour, labour market, knowledge managers, NZPA, market knowledge
Demand for labour continues to fall
Auckland :: New Zealand | 7 months ago
Credibility This is the second consecutive quarter in which all three labour market measures have decreased on an annual basis. In the year to March 2009, employment, as measured by the number of full-time equivalent employees, decreased 1.7 percent and filled jobs...
Tags: labour market, equivalent employees, filled jobs, New Zealand
Gender eq'lty policies to brave recession
New Delhi :: India | 9 months ago
Credibility The economic downturn has hit women harder but the trend can be arrested if governments adopt gender equality policies, the ILO said...Noting that women were among the "more vulnerable" of the working population than men in terms of disadvantages in accessing...
Tags: ILO, economic crisis, labour market, unemployed women
Unemployment continues to rise
Auckland :: New Zealand | 10 months ago
Credibility The December 2008 quarter saw the number of people unemployed rise by 10,000 and the unemployment rate increase to 4.6 percent...Over the December 2008 quarter, the unemployment rate increased by 0.4 percentage points to 4.6 percent. The female unemployment...
Tags: unemployment rate, New Zealand, rate increase, NZX All Capital Index, NZPA, Statistics NZ, surprise rise, labour market, rate rose, percentage points
Beyond Right and Left - New Politics and the Culture Wars - PART TWO
Beyond Right and Left - New Politics and the Culture Wars - PART TWO Rather than envisaging an alliance between the traditional Left and other already existing intellectual and social movements, including social liberals, environmentalists and 'compassionate...
Tags: Right, Left, politics, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, social democracy, multiculturalism, feminism, neo-liberalism, New Right, culture, culture wars, Australia, Enlightenment, moral relativism, workplace rights, domestic economy, Edmund Burke, nationalism, collectivism, Hayek, compassionate conservatism, French Revolution, Terror, liberty, freedom, work life balance, universalism, Communism, labor, liberal socialism, mixed economy, Eduard Bernstein, Robin Blackburn, economic democracy, Green politics, Third Way, labour market
Beyond Right and Left - New Politics and the Culture Wars - PART ONE
Beyond right and left Review article What kind of politics should progressives adopt into the new century? Tristan Ewins explores the assumptions and consequences of the 'culture wars', and the supposition of a 'New Politics' that goes beyond traditional...
Tags: Right, Left, politics, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, social democracy, multiculturalism, feminism, neo-liberalism, New Right, culture, culture wars, Australia, Enlightenment, moral relativism, workplace rights, domestic economy, Edmund Burke, nationalism, collectivism, Hayek, compassionate conservatism, French Revolution, Terror, liberty, freedom, work life balance, universalism, Communism, labor, liberal socialism, mixed economy, Eduard Bernstein, Robin Blackburn, economic democracy, Green politics, Third Way, labour market
Ireland Govt Confirms Labor Ban on Bulgarians, Romanians over Crisis
Brussels :: Belgium | 11 months ago
Credibility The government of Ireland confirmed Tuesday its decision to extend the ban on Bulgarians and Romanians to work in the country for three more years. During its final meeting for 2008, the Irish cabinet agreed the labor restrictions must stay because of...
Tags: Ireland, labour market, Irish Times
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