Tomorrow’s jobs report will be one for the history books: with a record 19% Unemployment, and an additional 7 million job losses added to the 20 million from last month, the labor […]
Despite the island’s two major political parties being birthed out of trade union movements and to which they are still closely aligned today, Jamaica continues to lag behind its smaller Caribbean neighbours […]
THE country’s unemployment rate could be as high as 40 percent, Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes said yesterday but stressed officials won’t know the exact figure until the Department of Statistics does […]
The Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) has signalled to the Government that it has no objection to operators in the BPO sector being granted a special extension to its current work-at-home […]
Insiders at LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and Jobcase on who will be hiring, what skills will be important, and how the workplace of the future will change. For Fast Company’s Shape of Tomorrow series, we’re asking […]
In the last week 2.123 million more Americans filed for unemployment benefits for the first time (versus the 2.10mm expected). That brings the ten-week total to 40.767 million, dramatically more than at […]
With over $270 million to be allocated to capital works expenditure, Senator Crystal Drakes is urging government to use some of these funds to push job creation in the renewable energy sector. […]
While the tourism sector and related businesses on Grand Bahama have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister of State for Grand Bahama Kwasi Thompson is commending industrial companies who have […]
The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns across the African continent could trigger an economic collapse, according to one United Nations (UN) official, who spoke with Associated Press (AP). Ahunna Eziakonwa, the UN Development Program regional director for […]
Employers should be doing more to protect their workers’ well-being as the COVID-19 outbreak continues. Millions of working parents are bearing the brunt of the outbreak as they attempt to do their […]
