In a bid to plug a "major skills gap" in the datacentre industry, the professional association Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched a bootcamp to lure unemployed graduates to work in the industry. The DCA claims that the data centre ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Data
The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 12.1% in June 2013, stable compared with May. The EU27 unemployment rate was 10.9%, down from 11.0% in May. In both zones, rates have risen compared with June 2012, when they ...
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Australia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained steady at 5.7 per cent in July, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today. The ABS reported the number of people employed decreased by 10,200 to 11,653,200 ...
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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 percent from 7.6 percent in June, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate in July was the lowest ...
The number of electrical engineers in the workforce has declined over the last decade. It's not a steady decline, and it moves up and down, but the overall trend is not positive. In 2002 the U.S. had 385,000 employed electrical engineers; ...
The imports of textiles and apparels by Brazil grew by 25.4 percent year-on-year in value and 17.3 percent year-on-year in volume, amounting to 104,800 tons in April 2013, according to the latest data. In the clothing sub-sector, ...
Regional unemployment rates varied widely across the 270 NUTS 2 regions of the EU27 in 2012, with the lowest rates recorded in the regions of Salzburg and Tirol (both 2.5%) in Austria and Tübingen, Oberbayern and Trier (all 2.7%) in ...
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Editor’s Note: The following column by Reed Langton, senior application engineer, Bastian Solutions, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, systems ...
Tags: Automation, Machinery
The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software-related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers’ pay cheques declined by nearly 2 percent. There are multiple theories for the decline in pay, ...
Tags: Software Developer, Wages, Workforce
The tripartite partners (Government, employers and workers) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) express their great sadness at the immense loss of life and serious injuries caused by the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in ...
Preceding days On the eighth day of the lunar month prior to Chinese New Year, a traditional porridge known as làbāzhōu is served in remembrance "of an ancient festival, called Là, that occurred shortly after the ...
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Many tech companies have called for Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration because they can't find qualified tech workers to fill open positions. Yet, many veteran IT tech workers say they can't find jobs. More than a ...
Tags: Veteran Tech, Computer Products
High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
Tags: GFK Consumer Climate, unemployment
A biscuit manufacturer has secured a loan of 276,000 from the Manchester Investment Fund to expand its business and create more than 45 jobs. Hill Biscuits will create more than 45 new jobs after a loan of 276,000 from the Manchester ...
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The US Department of Labor reported Friday that the US economy added 88,000 new jobs in March, the smallest gain in nine months and following a 268,000 jump in February. Nonetheless, the jobless rate fell to 7.6 percent, down 0.1 percent ...
Tags: economy