Employment

Jobs scheme celebrates first year (Newham Recorder)

12 May 2008

EAST Ham MP Stephen Timms helped to celebrate the first year of Newham Council's innovative jobs brokerage scheme in Stratford. The Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform visited Workplace, based in the Broadway, last week.

Lula secure but Congress is at standstill (Financial Times)

12 May 2008

It seems that things could hardly be going better for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president. After years of slow growth, the economy is buzzing along happily. Investment, credit and employment are at levels not seen for decades.

USI delays vote on same-sex domestic partner benefits (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

12 May 2008

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - The University of Southern Indiana board of trustees opted not to vote on a proposed resolution that would have granted employment benefits to same-sex domestic partners.