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LEADING UK supermarket Tesco is to offer 200 disabled people jobs in a bid to develop an "overlooked pool of talent", it said. Around 200 placements, which give disabled people the chance to gain work experience, will be turned into permanent jobs this year, Tesco added. Personnel director Judith Nelson said: "We will continue to support disabled workers throughout the business and welcome their enthusiasm and skills."
India Begs US To Stop Outsourcing Customer Service Jobs
India has publicly requested that the United States halt the increasing practice of outsourcing call centers handling customer support. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's mention of what he called the "unexpected controversies" generated over the issue came days after remarks critical of India by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick over the outsourcing issue. "Outsourcing makes businesses more competitive, and we thought the influx of high-paying jobs was a good idea at first," Vajpayee said. "But the cost to our society has been enormous."
Re-election Rhetoric or the real deal? You decide...
Re-election Rhetoric or the real deal? You decide...
WASHINGTON -- Gearing up for the November election, the Bush administration sharpened its focus on the economy Tuesday — and raised the political stakes by insisting dramatic job gains are on the way. While President Bush was meeting at the White House with business leaders, his top economic advisers were presenting Congress with their annual outlook, which projects U.S. employers will create 2.6 million jobs this year. That would be enough to erase the loss of 2.2 million jobs since Bush was sworn into office in January 2001. Opinion polls show voters consider the economy the top issue facing the nation.
(Answer: Worth more than it was last year if you work in the fields of: Computer Science, Elementary School Teacher, Psychology, Nursing and Liberal Arts)
The job market may not be booming. But for many in the college class of 2004, it won't be quite as dismal as it was for last year's grads. That's the preliminary conclusion of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which released its latest quarterly starting-salary survey on Thursday. It's still early days for most college seniors on the hunt for a job. Only a small number of students typically have full-time job offers in hand halfway through their senior year. And the number of offers covered in NACE's winter survey is a small percentage of the offers covered in its fall survey, which reflects hiring through the previous August.
Still, NACE thinks there's reason for cautious optimism.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Two proposals now being considered before the Washington state House Commerce and Labor Committee would ban all state business from being sent offshore. If passed into law, they would be the first of their kind in the United States.
The controversial measures face an uphill battle against legislative opponents in both the House and Senate and powerful pro-business interests in the state. But they also have a powerful ally: Committee Chair Steve Conway.
"I'm going continue to repeat this because I know if I repeat it enough, people start thinking," the House Democrat from Tacoma says. "The offshoring of American work, to my mind, is an economic virus impacting our country."
If passed into law, the measures would be the first of their kind in the nation. House Bill 2405 would prohibit state government services from being performed outside of the United States. A similar measure, House Bill 2768, would prohibit state agencies from sending work to foreign companies or to U.S. companies that would then subcontract state work offshore.
The 2006 Super Bowl at Detroit’s Ford Field is projected to pump $302 million into the region’s economy, but that windfall could be limited by inclement weather, public safety costs or even what pro football teams are playing.
In a survey conducted by DiamondCluster, a Chicago consulting firm, 78 percent reported having prematurely ended at least one outsourcing contract. Because it's a hot political topic, those failures tend to attract particular attention when they involve offshoring; investment bank Lehman Brothers and Dell Inc. have been in headlines after moving call-center work back to the United States.
"It's amazing under economic pressures how many folks will jump and look for the silver bullet, and later it doesn't turn out to be what they thought it was going to be," said Chris Disher, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, a management consulting firm.
"Shipping jobs offshore is shortsighted. I had two recent experiences that point out the potential problems with shipping some jobs offshore." (Interesting commentary)
Executives from Silicon Valley to Wall Street are adamant that shifting white-collar jobs from the United States to developing countries is good business, but a backlash is brewing. Indiana canceled a $15 million contract with an Indian consulting firm in November. And Indiana and seven other states voted on bills last year that would ban the use of taxpayer money on contracts with foreign workers. Though none of those measures passed, the states and several others are expected to consider similar bills this year.
Jobs? Montanna says, “Stop selling the sizzle and show me the beef!”
This is a good rant and I think it reflects the mindset of a lot of unemployed people these days when it comes to politics. Worth a peek. http://tinyurl.com/2vf4g
Maybe its not politics at all. Maybe technology is the economy's salvation? http://tinyurl.com/yrwhn
Yet, with rhetoric abounding, there is good news to be found in Colorado. http://tinyurl.com/yt9q3
The figures for third quarter of 2003 showed that the economy grew at the fastest rate in nearly 20 years. Productivity is high, business investment is rising, housing construction is expanding, manufacturing activity is increasing, we've added over a quarter million new jobs -- the tax relief we passed is working. (Applause.) -Remarks by the President at Bush-Cheney 2004 Reception.
Laid-off programmers have filed a lawsuit accusing the US Department of Labor of illegally denying them job-training benefits available to workers in industries where jobs have moved overseas. The suit, which seeks class-action status, was filed Jan. 2 in the US Court of International Trade in New York, said Michael G. Smith, attorney for the plaintiffs. The suit wants a judge to order the Labor Department to make laid-off software workers eligible for weekly cash payments and other benefits under the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. (Thanks KenRadio for this tip!)
