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Young gun U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez begins to sketch out details of 'Green New Deal'
Environmental legislation dubbed a Green New Deal championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn widespread attention — despite the fact that no one really knows for sure what it is. Now, as Ocasio-Cortez prepares to release a blueprint, details are emerging. "Next week, we plan to ...
Extending the working lives of the elderly by offering better employment conditions is a top priority for Japan.
Three common assumptions skew economists' forecasts of automation's impact on employment.
More significant wage hikes to shore up consumer demand are needed, along with accelerated efforts to develop new growth sectors through structural reforms and deregulation.
Japan's jobless rate fell to 26-year low of 2.4% in 2018 amid labor crunch
The number of unemployed fell by 240,000 to 1.66 million, the ninth consecutive year of decline.
Hon Hai rethink of Wisconsin LCD screen plant plan flies in face of Trump job-creation boast
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said Wednesday it is shifting the focus of its planned Wisconsin campus away from blue-collar manufacturing to a research hub, while insisting it remains committed to creating 13,000 jobs as promised. The much-ballyhooed facility was heralded by President Donald Trump ...
Germany edges out China in Bolivia in the new lithium 'Great Game'
When Germany signed a deal last month to help Bolivia exploit its huge lithium reserves, it hailed the venture as a deepening of economic ties with the South American country. But it also gives Germany entry into the new "Great Game" in which big ...
Two years into President Donald Trump's administration, a majority of Americans have lost confidence in the brash real estate magnate's performance on everything from the economy to foreign policy, a poll showed Monday. The ABC News/Washington Post poll was published after Trump suffered a major ...
Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, set to ax up to 9,000 jobs
Britain's biggest retailer, supermarket group Tesco, said Monday that it planned to ax up to 9,000 jobs under the next stage of a vast restructuring program, as it continues to come up against increasing competition from German discount retailers Aldi and Lidl. Tesco, which employs ...
End of U.S. government shutdown still leaves contract workers hanging
Federal employees are turning on office lights and computers and reopening national parks and museums for the first time in weeks, but others employed by government contractors face still more uncertainty over when they'll resume work or whether they'll ever be paid for time ...
Retail rout deepens as U.K. and Germany lose thousands of jobs
Europe's retail crisis deepened as companies in the U.K. to Germany are set to cut thousands of jobs as online shopping accelerates erosion of sales from traditional bricks-and-mortar stores. Tesco, the biggest U.K. grocer, will eliminate about 15,000 positions and close meat, fish and delicatessen ...
Panel proposes Japan schoolteachers' overtime be limited to 45 hours per month
A government panel proposed Friday that overtime work for teachers in public schools be capped, in principle, at 45 hours per month and 360 hours per year. The proposal was part of a report on public school teachers' work-style reforms compiled by the Central Council ...
