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Job postings continue to grow, exceed pre-Covid levels: Report

Led by demand in the technology sector, job postings in India have exceeded the pre-Covid levels since September 2021 and witnessed a 30.8 per cent growth by the end of March 2022 from February 2020

Govt to create 4 mn jobs in four years, says Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan

Kerala is set to become a knowledge community and jobs for qualified youngsters should be created in our own state

P&O Ferries boss acknowledges breaking rules in mass firings

The head of a Dubai government-owned ferry operator at the centre of a bitter labour dispute in the UK acknowledged on Thursday that the firm should have consulted with workers before firing 786 crew members but chose not to because it knew labour unions would never agree to the company's plans. P & O Ferries Chief Executive Peter Hebblethwaite made the comments under repeated questions from lawmakers who characterised the company's actions as a willful decision to break UK labour law. Hebblethwaite said the company was offering workers generous compensation after firing them without notice last week. The company, which operates in Britain and is owned by a subsidiary of Dubai company DP World, dismissed the workers as part of a restructuring plan needed to save the business. The fired workers will be replaced by cheaper staff provided by a third-party crew provider. We assessed that given the fundamental nature of change, no union could accept it and therefore we chose not to ...

Indians surpass US job seekers for Canadian job postings: Indeed

STEM-related postings get higher shares of interest from outside of Canada than other fields, led by software development, which this February received 22% of clicks from outside Canada

Coronavirus pandemic erased over 9 mn jobs in Southeast Asia, says ADB

This pushed 4.7 million people to extreme poverty last year, measured as living on less that $1.90 a day, the ADB said in a report

India's big problem

Unemployment continues to worry

Karnataka govt launches programme to provide 5 lakh jobs to women

Minister of Higher Education, Electronics, IT-BT, S & T and Skill Development Dr C N Aswath Narayan on Tuesday launched Women@Work (W@W) programme with an aim to provide five lakh jobs within 2026 to women with necessary employable skills.Participating in an event organised by Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) in association with KTECH and Karnataka Skill Development Corporation to mark the Women's Day celebrations, the minister launched the new initiative that was also held as part of the Karnataka digital economy mission programme.Ashwin D Gowda, MD, Karnataka State Skills Development Corporation, KDEM Chairman B V Naidu, CEO Sanjeev Gupta, and Ramkumar Narayanan of VMware among others were also present.Speaking on the occasion, Dr Aswath Narayan said women who will be imparted training in specialized skills will become employable in the next five years which will go a long way in contributing to the country's GDP growth.Dr Narayan said as part of the Women@Work ...

Hiring activities witness 31% increase in February: Report

Hiring activity witnessed a 31 per cent increase in February as multiple sectors recorded strong growth compared to the previous year, according to a report.

What do the unemployed do?

The delinking of activities from employment status allows a better understanding of what the unemployed do, or as CPHS informs us, what is the nature of occupation of the unemployed

Facing the job problem

Rajasthan's urban job programme might be difficult to implement

Kerala to have 15,000 startups, create 200,000 jobs in 5 years: CM Vijayan

Kerala has set a target of having over 15,000 startups and 2,00,000 jobs in emerging technologies in five years, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday.

The treacherous labour statistics

Employment did not exp­and to absorb the unemplo­yed in January. On the contr­ary, it shrank by 3.3 million

Author Anand Neelakantan's take on best and worst of Budget 2022

The move to ease out 75,000 compliances and elimination of 1,486 union laws are commendable and could drive investment, says Neelakantan

FDCI chairman Sunil Sethi's take on best, worst things in Budget

India is a good investment destination already with the highest GDP growth in large economies

Govts can't create jobs

The less they focus on employment creation, the better it may be for the economy

Job postings in travel, tourism rise 4% in December: Monster index

This growth could be attributed to the emergence of 'revenge travel trends' and 'staycations'

Consumer goods giant Unilever cutting 1,500 management jobs

Unilever, which makes Vaseline skin care products and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, says it's laying off 1,500 staff as part of a company-wide restructuring. The proposed changes mean that senior management jobs will be cut by about 15 per cent while junior management roles will be reduced by 5 per cent, it said Tuesday. The London-based consumer goods giant employs 149,000 people globally. The changes, which are subject to consultation, won't affect factory teams, Unilever said in a statement posted on its website. Under the reorganisation, the company will be organized into five distinct groups: beauty and wellbeing, personal care, home care, nutrition, and ice cream. The shakeup will enable us to be more responsive to consumer and channel trends, with crystal-clear accountability for delivery," CEO Alan Jope said. The revamp comes swiftly after news this month that the company made an unsolicited 50 billion pound (USD 67 billion) bid to acquire GlaxoSmithKline's consumer health care

'Off to Canada to get whatever': India's jobs crisis frustrates its youth

India's unemployment is estimated to have exceeded the global rate in five of the last six years

Blue-collar jobs platform Qjobs gets 2 mn job applications in a year

Company says it added the latest 1 million job seekers in a record time of 100 days

UK employers add record number of jobs despite Omicron spread

Recruit 184,000 staff to payrolls in December, showing little impact of Omicron