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Killing Blindness and Poverty with One Stone

Research has shown that the poor who live at a socio-economic disadvantage run a higher risk of blindness.

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"Gissa Job": New Website Creates New Job Opportunities

A new online marketplace has launched today (24th September), allowing small businesses to out-source projects of all sizes - even small tasks - to a community of skilled people who can complete them.

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Itjobsforgraduates.com gives guidelines on getting a job in IT

www.itjobsforgraduates.com, part of www.theitjobboard.com, has today launched three free career guides for graduates entering the IT sector.

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LA, California labor lead nation

California’s unionization rate rose sharply in 2007, while rates for the nation and Los Angeles changed little, according to a report by UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

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Motivating Employees... What Works

In my work with human service organizations I am continually confronted with questions about how to motivate employees. “How do I make my staff take my job as seriously as I do?” For some, their employees only do the bare minimum required to avoid termination. The problem is especially complicated when they are supervising entry level staff who earn very little money and often have second jobs in order to meet their families needs; routinely working 16 hours in every 24 will slow down anyone.

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Vienna Airport is Austria's most important job engine

In the past few years Vienna Airport has developed into Austria’s most important job engine. Almost 16,000 persons hold full-time positions in 230 enterprises located directly in Schwechat. Airport Vienna safeguards indirectly another 52,000 jobs (30 percent more than in 1999) in supplier companies.

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Race, not space, key to lower black male employment rate

A new study finds that in areas where low-skilled jobs are predominantly held by whites, black men who live nearby are less likely to get hired.

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Stressed at work? Your boss needs enlightening

The chances are your working environment today is a far more complex place than it was 20 years ago.

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Operators' Refusal to Negotiate Set to Cause Work Stoppage

AGC Fights to Keep Construction Going, Workers Employed This Summer

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Few Employers Are Taking Action to Recruit and Retain Older Workers

Governments Found to Play Critical Role in Increasing Employment of Mature Adults

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Time poor Brits turn to domestic help

Cash rich, time poor, 21st century lifestyles are forcing more households to employ domestic help according to new research from Barclays Premier Banking.

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Gettting to grips with the health gap

Tackling health inequalities in Britain needs closer co-ordination between all major policy areas including health, education, housing, employment and taxation, according to the authors of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication.

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