Employment

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-21 11:27 Irish Q3 unemployment 6.3 pct, employment falls (Interactive Investor)

21 Nov 2008

DUBLIN, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Ireland's unemployment rate rose to 6.3 percent in the third quarter from a revised 5.4 percent in the second quarter, seasonally adjusted figures showed on Friday. The number of people in employment in Ireland fell at an annual rate of 1.2 percent in the third quarter, the first annual decline in employment since 1991. That compared with an annual growth rate of 0.3 ...

OVERVIEW OF NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR EMPLOYMENT (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

21 Nov 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) -— Over the next two years, between 190,000 and 270,000 new job opportunities will created annually, according to the National Action Plan for Employment (NAPE) unveiled by the government yesterday.

Report vindicates equal-employment officer (The Columbus Dispatch)

21 Nov 2008

The equal-employment officer for a state agency complained of racial discrimination in employee pay and failure to recruit minorities, but upper management brushed aside the complaints and retaliated against the compliance officer, according to an investigative report released yesterday.