Unemployment News
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By AFP
Paris -
The number of jobless in France dipped slightly in June, the first full month under President Emmanuel Macron, who has launched labour reforms aimed at boosting hiring.After rising in May the number of unemployed in mainland France fell by 0.
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By AFP
Milan -
"Italy gets worse every time you look at it and offers less and less to young people," says Antonio Davide D'Elia, just one of thousands of young Italians who have decided to try their luck abroad.
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The Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen dropped a bomb shell on Thursday, saying the opioid crisis in the U.S. is weighing on labor force participation, especially among working-age men.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil's unemployment rate marked its second straight month of decline in May, according to new figures Friday, falling 0.3 points to 13.3 percent following two and a half years of increases as the country struggles to emerge from a historic recession....
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil's sickly economy got an unexpected glimmer of good news Wednesday with unemployment figures showing a slight dip to 13.6 percent rather than yet another record rise.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Only one in 10 Brazilians think President Michel Temer's government is doing a good job, according to a new poll Friday.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil's unemployment rate hit 12 percent between October and December, another record high, official data showed Tuesday even as the economy is forecast to slowly exit deep recession.That amounted to 12.
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By AFP
Paris -
The number of unemployed in France fell by nearly 12,000 in October, bringing the total reduction this year to over 100,000 in what President Francois Hollande said Thursday was proof his policies were "bearing fruit".
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By AFP
Paris -
In a rare piece of good news seized on by embattled President Francois Hollande, France recorded its sharpest drop in unemployment for 20 years in September, the labour ministry said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Tehran -
Mansour Faridfar did well on the black market until the law caught up and left him jobless, forcing him to join the thousands of "shakhsi" unofficial taxi drivers clogging Tehran's streets.
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Millennials may call themselves the most entrepreneurial generation, but the data doesn't seem to back that claim up.
That's according to a new nationwide study by professional services firm EY and the Economic Innovation Group.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Luis Lag is one of thousands of Spaniards who went abroad during the crisis. This "very good decision" allowed him to find a better job when he eventually came back.
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By AFP
Madrid -
"They hire you, they ditch you, they hire you and they ditch you again.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday came up with a novel scheme to rein in the country's high unemployment levels, saying that every company should take on one unemployed person.
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Washington -
Employment levels in the U.S. are looking more precarious, according to a new report. The number of U.S. citizens filing for unemployment benefits increased dramatically according to government figures.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is raising hackles after warning that the mega Petrobras corruption probe is paralyzing essential sectors of the Brazilian economy, like oil and construction.
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In the classic sci fi film, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” a robot vaporizes anyone standing in its way. In reality, though, it’s not people that robots are vaporizing, it’s their jobs.
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By AFP
Tunis -
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid pleaded Saturday for people to be "patient" after a wave of protests against poverty and unemployment in the worst social unrest since the 2011 revolution.
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By AFP
Tunis -
Tunisia on Friday declared a nighttime curfew across the country after a wave of protests and clashes that constitute the most serious outbreak of social unrest since its 2011 revolution.
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By AFP
Kasserine -
Tunisian police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of job-seeking demonstrators in the impoverished town of Kasserine, in a second day of protests after the death of an unemployed man.
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Paris -
Socialist President Francois Hollande is not a popular man in France due to perpetually high unemployment rates in that country. An especially weak economy is chipping away at his poll numbers and the presidential election is little more than a year away.
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We are only into the early days of 2016 but this hasn’t slowed the actions of companies doing anything to protect their share prices. Two big pharmaceutical companies have already announced plant closures and layoffs.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Gema Martin remembers with a touch of nostalgia the time when she had medical insurance, holidays... in other words, a job.
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By AFP
Malm -
Aneta Moura, who emigrated to Sweden from Greece 43 years ago, says the last ethnic Swede has moved off her street in Malmo's Rosengard neighbourhood and youths with nothing to do hang out on the streets at all hours.
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‘Traders’ is a darkly humoured and entertaining story about a couple of guys who realize they can profit from the desperation of others guilt-free. Fantasia Film Festival plays host to two sold-out screenings of the film.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Five years ago, during Spain's housing boom, Felix Jumbo worked as a builder. Now he digs pumpkins and cabbages in a district where construction cranes once swung.Like millions in Spain, the 51-year-old Ecuadorian lost his job.
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By AFP
Italy's wealthy north may have tired of asylum seekers, but in one of the poorest regions of Sardinia locals are clothing and feeding refugee families.
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The unemployment rate officially dropped to 5.4 percent in April, but a closer examination shows that 40 percent of America's 8.5 million unemployed people have given up on the job search. This data suggests that the labor market is worse than it seems.
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By AFP
Spain -
Daniel, Alejandro and Adrian had never had a real job before, but a few days before an election in their Andalusian home region one landed in each of their laps as if by magic.
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By AFP
Sarajevo -
Four people illegally extracting coal from an opencast mine in Bosnia have been killed in a slag heap slide, authorities said Sunday.
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Unemployment Image
Unemployed teachers wait for an interview at Brooklyn Museum, NYC.
Jobs on offer at a local employment fair. Malcolm Tredinnick
Geithner to leave in consideration of family.
Republicans just can't seem to find it in themselves to share the nation's enthusiasm over the recovery. Department of Labor
An Unemployment and Job Center in Lyon France Wikicommons
Eight striking bus drivers who were fired in July in Luque, located 12 km northeast of Asunción, have nailed themselves to crosses in protest. Iamlatin
A student stands in front of a job board looking for opportunities. cwgcph
Sky Soleil performs Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure to draw attention to the plight of the homeless and jobless in the United States. YouTube screen shot
September 2012 total workforce unemployment chart. Courtesy of www.shadowstats.com shadowstats.com
Andrew Neil of the BBC interviewing Mark Beatson, chief economist from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, about its research into so-called "zero hour contracts" BBC
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