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  • Background Notes : Zambia (11/09) 7 Nov 2009 05:57 GMT
    ... important Zambians, including prominent UNIP defectors and labor leaders. Zambia's first multi-party elections for parliament ... transportation corridors, while rural areas are underpopulated. Unemployment and underemployment are serious problems. HIV/AIDS is ... the 1970s when prices declined on world markets. The socialist government made up for falling ...

  • Recession Brings Higher Unemployment to Unmarried Women 7 Nov 2009 00:13 GMT
    ... Great Recession has led to excruciatingly high unemployment and extended joblessness for workers around the nation. For many ... Data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the rate reached 10.2 percent ...

  • Labor trends affect who is hit hardest 7 Nov 2009 07:57 GMT
    ... WASHINGTON — The last time unemployment climbed past 10 percent, "The A-Team" was ... release "Thriller." Much has changed since the jobless rate hit 10.1 percent in September 1982, ... 1982, including the composition of the nation's labor force. American workers are now older, more educated ...

  • Economix: Who's Hurting the Most? 7 Nov 2009 01:12 GMT
    ... The job market is bad for almost everyone. But ... Below we have collected a breakdown of unemployment numbers by various demographic categories. You'll notice ... doing much worse than women in the labor market, largely because men are disproportionately employed in ...

  • Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years » 7 Nov 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... compiling such data, the highest level of unemployment came at the end of 1982, when ... growing, the government's latest snapshot of the labor market released Friday testified to the uncomfortable truth ... that expansion had yet to translate into jobs. “The guy on the street is going ...

  • Economix: Who's Hurting Most? 7 Nov 2009 07:53 GMT
    ... The job market is bad for almost everyone. But ... Below we have collected a breakdown of unemployment numbers by various demographic categories. You'll notice ... doing much worse than women in the labor market, largely because men are disproportionately employed in ...

  • U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years 7 Nov 2009 11:54 GMT
    ... U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years ... the nation might yet confront the worst joblessness since the Great Depression. Job seekers at ... growing, the government’s latest snapshot of the labor market released Friday testified to the uncomfortable truth ...

  • Remembering the Ones Who Are Left Behind: Racial Inequality in the Education System 7 Nov 2009 09:43 GMT
    ... Remembering the Ones Who Are Left Behind: Racial ... Inequality at Work:the Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation, admits that, a] significant proportion of ... a function of inequality in education and labor market experience. To reduce racial inequality requires education ...

  • Under a Saudi bridge, migrant workers wait to go home 7 Nov 2009 00:31 GMT
    ... to leave. Some fled abusive or non-paying employers, others were abandoned by sponsors, and still ... for those without proper papers to get jobs. Everyone under the Jeddah bridge has a ... easy to do in a huge black market for workers. Now, with two children back ...

  • Black leaders press for contracts 7 Nov 2009 08:44 GMT
    ... Concerned about rising unemployment and declining economic conditions, the National Black ... The meeting was held as the U.S. Labor Department released some grim figures about employment in ... Data released yesterday reveal that the nationwide jobless rate for African-Americans is 15.7 percent, compared ...

  • New iNova investment boosts Australian manufacturing and exports 7 Nov 2009 08:11 GMT
    ... and lozenges destined for local and export markets, from 8.4 million to 20 million blister ... our local economy, exports and Australian based jobs,” Mr Howden said. Mr Howden largely attributes ... in Australian based pharmaceutical manufacturing and an employer of a highly skilled workforce. iNova manufactures ...

  • Expanding justice through public interest litigation in Guyana 7 Nov 2009 10:52 GMT
    ... By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Barrister-at-Law, Director of the Guyana ... ordinarily entertained. These included matters concerning bonded labour, neglected children, petitions from prisoners, petitions against ... used to order minimum wages for poor workers, abolish bonded labour and child labour, ensure ...

  • Kiger's Notebook: New market offers international flavor 7 Nov 2009 14:54 GMT
    ... Kiger's Notebook: New market offers international flavor Two Rochester men want ... on staff in the 1,200-square-foot salon. The labor group that represents 1,200 workers at recently ...

  • China, Africa Trade Soars 7 Nov 2009 05:17 GMT
    ... Nov 06, 2009 (Radio Free Asia Documents and Publications/ContentWorks ... the exploitation by Chinese companies of African labor, as well as the destruction of Africa's ... of the risk to its reputation and market access if projects are discredited by graft. ...

  • Temple foundation employers the women of India 7 Nov 2009 06:43 GMT
    ... TEMPLE, Texas — He's a store man by ... 4 a.m. to go to the wholesale market where I buy the vegetables for selling. ... in town and gather information about potential jobs and suggested profit. "We help them come ...

  • Afrimat aims to diversify its products, grow market 7 Nov 2009 12:42 GMT
    ... for an upturn in the residential property market. Presenting the group’s interim results to August ... said. Van Heerden said the group was working on introducing new materials into the building ... an empowerment deal, which saw its black employees acquire 15,8% of the company, through funding ...

  • 79 Year Old Widow Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Vacate Her Farm [column] 7 Nov 2009 00:41 GMT
    ... committed on farms. Many farmers and their workers have been assaulted, had their belongings seized ... the attorney general's office frequently targets the employees." A significant number of workers have been ... 60 thousand farm workers have lost their jobs this year alone, as a result of the ...

  • Workers challenge multinational to honour its promises 7 Nov 2009 00:34 GMT
    ... Workers challenge multinational to honour its promises Workers ... its promises of fair treatment for all employees as part of a worldwide week of ... Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Panama, South Africa, Switzerland (including "Don´t put the squeeze on ...

  • Chainsaw operations employ 86,000 people 7 Nov 2009 10:36 GMT
    ... Eleven years after the ban on illegal chainsaw ... major source of supply to domestic timber markets, thereby sustaining rural economies and livelihood. Currently, ... lowest rate of rent collection in West Africa. Mr. Parker said assuming 40 per cent ...

  • TUC cautions Ghanaians against bogus oil training institutions 7 Nov 2009 07:50 GMT
    ... Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, Acting Head of the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the TUC, ... was not likely to lead to massive job opportunities for Ghanaians. Mr. Kuyole explained that ... also provides for people who are self- employed such as mechanics and traders. ...

  • TUC cautions against bogus oil training institutions 7 Nov 2009 10:36 GMT
    ... Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, Acting Head of the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the TUC, ... was not likely to lead to massive job opportunities for Ghanaians. Mr. Kuyole explained that ... also provides for people who are self- employed such as mechanics and traders. Source: GNA ...

  • TUC cautions Ghanaians 7 Nov 2009 11:43 GMT
    ... Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, Acting Head of the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the TUC, ... was not likely to lead to massive job opportunities for Ghanaians. Mr. Kuyole explained that ... also provides for people who are self- employed such as mechanics and traders. ...

  • SNC Lavalin posts net profit in third quarter up from year-ago income 7 Nov 2009 00:14 GMT
    ... Montreal-based company has operated in the North African country for more than 40 years. However, ... Algerian security officials say private security guards working for SNC were ambushed east of the ... we don't see a threat to our employees," he told analysts. "If we were having ...

  • UPI's erroneous report on Ethiopia 7 Nov 2009 09:53 GMT
    ... - United Press International (UPI), a Washington DC based ... per cent. Many people are losing their jobs and falling back into poverty. “Progress towards ... this consensus, decisions on the division of labour between the RCMs and RDTs can proceed, ...

  • The futility of targets without sustainable process and strategy 7 Nov 2009 09:37 GMT
    ... Kachi, my nephew who got a new job in an established first generation Nigerian bank ... wrong with productivity and sales goals to employees? The simple answer is that there is ... foot the bills for rents, telephone, logistics, marketing, advertising, customer service, stationeries, legal services and ...


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