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LUSAIL, Qatar (AFP) – Technology giant Microsoft announced Wednesday it will create 36,000 jobs in Qatar to boost the Gulf state’s efforts to move away from reliance on its oil and gas industry. Created with support from the Qatar government, the new cloud data centre will be one of the US firm’s biggest international projects. Microsoft Qatar general manager Lana Khalaf said it will help the tiny Gulf state become a “digital hub for the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – US auto giant Ford confirmed Monday it is eliminating around 3,000 jobs, mainly in North America and India, as the company pushes to accelerate its transition to electric vehicles. Challenged by Tesla and other start-ups, traditional carmakers have accelerated production of their electric models in recent years. The restructuring involves 2,000 salaried positions and 1,000 contractors mostly in the United States, Canada and India but does not affect factory […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Amazon on Thursday said that slightly more than 19,800 of its employees have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of March. Data on the e-commerce giant’s 1.37 million frontline workers, including those at its Whole Foods Market grocery stores in the United States, showed a lower infection rate than expected, Amazon said. The release of the figure comes as some workers in logistics centers have criticized the company’s […]
by Chris STEIN Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US job losses from the coronavirus pandemic reached 22 million in the past month, according to new data Thursday, as President Donald Trump is expected to unveil plans to re-open the world’s largest economy. Amid business shutdowns and restrictions ordered to stop the spread of COVID-19, government data continue to show the growing economic damage. Another 5.2 million workers filed for unemployment benefits […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Wall Street stocks gained early Friday after the October US jobs report topped expectations despite a hit from the General Motors strike. Employers added 128,000 net new jobs last month, the Labor Department reported, much better than the 80,000 projected by analysts and in spite of lower auto industry staffing that was apparent in data on that sector. “The key takeaway from the report is that it is not […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Amazon announced plans Thursday to offer job training to around one-third of its US workforce to help them gain skills to adapt to new technologies. The US tech giant said it would spend $700 million for its Upskilling 2025 program to train 100,000 employes to help them move into more skilled roles within or outside of Amazon. The move comes amid growing concerns that automation and robots are killing low-skilled […]
(Eagle News) — Libu-libong manggagawang Pilipino ang kinakailangan sa ilang bansa sa Asya at Europa. Ayon sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), sa bansang Saudi ay nasa isang libong women specialist nurses ang kanilang kailangan; 150 emergency medical technicians naman sa Abu Dhabi ; 400 nurses naman sa Germany at isang libong skilled at non-skilled workers sa bansang Poland. Paalala ng POEA sa mga interesadong aplikante na sa POEA-licensed at accredited recruitment agencies lamang ang […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Alibaba founder Jack Ma said his ambitious pledge to create one million jobs in the US had been scuppered by the trade row between Beijing and Washington, Chinese state news reported Thursday. The billionaire owner of China’s largest online shopping portal made the headline-grabbing promise to Donald Trump last year, as Beijing courted the then-newly elected president. But Ma told Xinhua that his pledge had been made on the basis […]
(Eagle News) — The Employer’s Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) vowed to help the Department of Labor and Employment in its campaign to end contractualization in the country. In fact, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said “we are now in possession of a proposed memorandum understanding submitted by ECOP.” “Pagka tatanggapin ang MOU na ito ay maaaring magkaroon ng paglalagda and this will result in the regularization of 300,000 contractual workers,” Bello said in a phone […]
(Eagle News) — Magsasagawa ang gobyerno ng job fair para sa ‘Build, Build, Build’ projects nito sa araw ng Linggo, Agosto 12. Ayon sa Department Of Trade And Industry (DTI), ang job fair ay isasagawa sa smx convetion center sa pasay city mula alas otso y medya ng umaga hanggang alas kwatro y medya ng hapon. Kabilang sa mga may job opening ay ang architects, engineers, finishing masons, finishing carpenters, heavy equipment operators, tile setters, […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pinag-aaralan na ng gobyerno at grupo ng mga manggagawa ang pagbibigay ng 500 pesos na buwanang subsidy sa mga manggagawang sumasahod ng minimum wage. Ayon sa Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP), sapul ng TRAIN law ang mga sumusweldo ng minimum dahil hindi naman ito kasama sa mga nadagdagan ang take home pay. Kasabay ng paggalaw ng presyo ay bumaba naman ang purchasing power ng maraming […]
by Sandra FERRER Agence France-Presse BREST, France (AFP) — Fancy a job at the North or South Pole? A French research institute is looking for you. The Paul-Emile Victor Polar Institute in northwest France has launched a public appeal to recruit around 40 French-speaking people for a wide variety of jobs at its six bases in the Arctic and Antarctica. From chemists and carpenters to bakers and pastry chefs, the institute is stepping up its efforts […]
