Despite low overall unemployment, Canada's manufacturing industry has cut 88,000 jobs this year, with nearly all the losses occurring in Ontario. Also, part-time employment has grown by 3.5 per cent in 12 months, much faster than the 0.9 per cent growth in full time work.
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The top 10 hot jobs that recently were surveyed by Yahoo and presented by Bubba's Other World show interesting picture of where to pursue a career, but the most striking thing is that all of them have the starting salary in the range of $50,000 to $60,0000 U.S. dollars.
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Contrary to the popular perception of a so-called "opting out revolution," new sociological research from the June issue of the American Sociological Review reveals that professional women's employment rates have continually pushed higher over time, and that the employment gap between mothers and childless women is shrinking.
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When John Heywood travels to China this summer, he’ll be there not only to teach, but also to study a new aspect of the country’s economy: the advent of worker rights.
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Unemployment has gone up, but this increase has not translated into unemployment benefit as the majority of the 29,000 people who left jobs in the past quarter don`t qualify for a benefit as they have a working partner or are not looking for work.
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The following appears in a May 2, 2008, summary of the current employment situation on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website:
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Three million of them were built; they stimulated a boom in employment and turned a nation of shop keepers into a nation of home owners.
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A policy monograph highlighting the need for federal protections against genetic discrimination in employment and insurance practices was released today by the American College of Physicians (ACP).
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