The Philippine Government is expected to grant duty-free access to all US-made textiles, yarn and fabrics in exchange for the duty-free access of Philippine garments to that market. This has transpired as Philippines Department of ...
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The European Commission (EC) wants to impose pension changes that would cost UK businesses £350bn (eURO440bn) and 180,000 jobs, according to research commissioned by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Describing the ...
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TechAmerica has released its latest job report which showed job gains in 16 of the last 18 months. In that time, IT jobs have grown from 5.8 million to 6 million, or 3.3 percent. “The technology industry is adding jobs as ...
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Free webinar discusses law firm security management procedures and how ePanic Button improves law firm security for attorneys and staff ePanic Button is presenting a webinar geared to lawyers, law firms and legal professionals, "Attorneys ...
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The Governing Board of MODINT, the Dutch employer’s organization for fashion, interiors, carpets and textiles, will nominate the current Director General H.J.A. (Han) Bekke (63) as the new Chairman of MODINT at the general ...
Many of us have known that currently China is the largest furniture exporting country. For example in last 2009 the export of China furniture reached to almost 26 billion USD. No wonder that around 30% furniture of the world is manufactured ...
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HP’s layoff count has increased again as the company said, in a U.S. Security and Exchange filing it will eliminate 29,000 positions, 2,000 more than the previous figure. In May, HP announced plans to cut 27,000 employees by 2014, ...
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There's no doubt that demand for IT professionals with Linux skills is growing rapidly,and earlier this year I wrote about a brand-new certification program targeting newcomers to the open-source operating system. At the time,the Linux ...
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Business Standard reported that with MoU of almost all steel companies pending for renewal and running units battling raw material crunch, the Odisha government has decided that it would not give any commitment on raw material supplies in ...
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The winner of the Microsoft Apprentice of the Year awards has been chosen from thousands of apprentices and Microsoft partners. David Robertson (pictured centre), from Worthing, was crowned winner of the Microsoft Apprentice of the Year, ...
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Although last week’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics showed better-than-expected results, the IT industry, was a big disappointment. After sustained growth – including 36,300 jobs added in July and August ...
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IT employment is on the rise as data shows high demand for specific IT occupations and an increase in hires over the past month. TechServe Alliance, an industry group, reported a gain of 5,100 IT jobs in August over the previous month, ...
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The UK government has injected a second round of cash into its pound 25m Higher Apprenticeship Fund. The funding aims to develop 4,230 new Higher Apprenticeships in sectors including low-carbon engineering, space engineering, legal ...
There were a lot of reasons for Gartner researchers to give a gloomy economic outlook at its Symposium/ITxpo conference here, especially after the latest round of quarterly reports from Intel, IBM and others. But the picture painted by ...
About a year ago,Xerox told some 600 employees,many of them engineers,that their jobs were being transferred to an India-based IT services firm. How has that worked out?Neither company is disclosing detail about what's been going on,but ...
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