Employment

Trend of converging working time across 28 EU Member States has stalled

The FINANCIAL -- The difference in working time between workers in the 28 EU Member States remains large and is especially marked between the ‘older’ 15 EU Member States and the 13 new Member States that joined the EU since 2004, according to new research from ...

Kosovo and World Bank Sign Loan Agreements for Two Job-Creation Projects

The FINANCIAL -- On August 2 the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kosovo, Avdullah Hoti, and the World Bank Country Manager for Kosovo, Marco Mantovanelli, signed financing agreements for the ...

Euro area unemployment at 9.1%

The FINANCIAL -- The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 9.1% in June 2017, down from 9.2% in May 2017 and down from 10.1% in June ...

Employment shifts in Europe during the recovery

The FINANCIAL -- The EU has finally recovered all the net employment losses sustained since the global financial crisis. It has been a long and painful process. But there is at last growing evidence ...

Workers facing up to completely retraining or reskilling to tackle technology’s impact on employment

The FINANCIAL -- Almost three quarters (74%) of people surveyed by PwC are ready to learn a new skill or completely retrain to keep themselves employable, seeing it as their personal responsibility ...

Salaries have risen for high-skilled foreign workers in U.S. on H-1B visas

The FINANCIAL -- U.S. employers planned to pay high-skilled foreign workers with H-1B visas a median salary of $80,000 a year in fiscal year 2016, up from about $69,000 a decade earlier, according to ...

Few U.S. Workers Worry About Tech Making Their Job Obsolete

The FINANCIAL -- Amid the steady stream of news about driverless cars, artificial intelligence and robots supplanting humans in the workplace, most employed U.S. adults are not worried that their ...

Fall in expected inflation reduces FTSE 350 pension deficits by £9 billion over July

The FINANCIAL -- Mercer’s Pensions Risk Survey data shows that the accounting deficit of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies fell from £131bn at the ...

Gallup Good Jobs Rate in U.S. Continues to Rise

The FINANCIAL -- The Gallup Good Jobs (GGJ) rate rose nearly a percentage point to 47.0% in July, from 46.3% in June. The GGJ rate now ties the highest point for the measure since 2010, 47.1% in July ...

U.S. Job Creation Index Back at Record High in July

The FINANCIAL -- Gallup's U.S. Job Creation Index returned to its all-time high of +37 in July, a sign that the job market remains strong relative to the past decade. This is one point higher than ...

Emigration and retirement underpin 143,000 drop in UK-born workforce since 2016

The FINANCIAL -- An analysis of the UK’s workforce showed that it grew in 2016-2017 only because of an increase in EU and non-EU ...

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