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Chinese workers fear job discrimination as govt plans to raise retirement
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 19 (ANI): As China plans to "gradually" increase its mandatory retirement ages, many Chinese workers are worried that it might exacerbate discrimination in the job market.
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India's labour, agricultural reforms can spur medium-term growth: Fitch
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, January 20 (ANI): India's reform agenda may help to support medium-term growth and partially offset downside pressures to investment from renewed asset-quality challenges in the financial sector and damaged corporate balance sheets, Fitch Ratings said on Wednesday.
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Oberoi Realty and Tata projects sign up with Captech Technologies to use i
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 24 (ANI/PRNewswire): Captech Technologies, India's largest and only labour marketplace has bagged projects from Realty majors Oberoi Realty and Tata Projects. The developers via the eFORCE marketplace platform will be able to access thousands of labour
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81 million jobs lost as COVID-19 creates turmoil in Asia Pacific labour ma
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], December 18 (ANI): Massive drops in working hours due to COVID-19 crisis have had a devastating effect on jobs and incomes in Asia and the Pacific, according to a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
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COVID-19 caused decline of London's labour market, exodus of migrant worke
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], November 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The coronavirus pandemic has hit London's labour market harder than the rest of the United Kingdom, causing a mass departure of foreign-born workers for the period of lockdowns, according to a study by UK-based think tank Centre for London and King's C
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Saudi ministry issues clarification after report on pending decision to ab
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], October 28 (ANI): Saudi Arabia has said it is working on initiatives to develop their labour market following reports that the Kingdom was working to abolish the kafala system, a foreign worker sponsorship system.
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COVID-19 accelerates workforce automation, new jobs still coming: WEF
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Cologny [Switzerland], October 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The coronavirus pandemic has further accelerated the labour market's transformation, which is going to take away 85 million jobs due to workforce automation but creates 97 million more, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said on Wednesday, summ
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How men and women network impacts their labor market performance
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 25 (ANI): A theory has been developed on how people's social network structure impacts their productivity and earnings.
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Over 1 million people apply for unemployment insurance in US
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], August 21 (ANI): With job losses continuing to plague the labour market five months into coronavirus pandemic, the number of people applying for the first time for unemployment insurance ticked up last week to 1.1 million, reported The Washington Post.
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Amid severe food crisis, Chinese govt asks citizens to control food habits
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 18 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping called its citizens to control food habits and "maintain a sense of crisis about food security" as the country is heading for a severe food crisis.
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Job prospects for foreigners dim as Singapore unemployment rise
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Singapore, August 03 (ANI): Singapore's total employment contracted dramatically, and retrenchment doubled as earlier warnings that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic will severely impact the economy and labour market started showing up in job numbers.
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US labour market faces slowdown amid COVID-19 surge
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 18 (ANI): The US labour market recovery is losing momentum, as a new wave of coronavirus infections causes heightened employer uncertainty and consumer caution, The WallStreet Journal reported.
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