Stocks Close Mixed Ahead Of Monthly Employment Report - U.S. Commentary
(RTTNews) - After showing some uncertainty over the course of the trading session, stocks ultimately ended Thursday's trading on opposite sides of the unchanged line, as investors responded to mixed economic and corporate news.

SC House speaker wants audit of employment agency
The speaker of the South Carolina House says he'll ask the Legislative Audit Council to review the Employment Security Commission. Harrell said Tuesday in a meeting with editors and reporters from The Greenville News that he will send a letter next week asking the audit council to review the operations of the commission. Gov. Mark Sanford was involved in a dispute with the agency last month, in ...

New Zealand's Employment Confidence At Record Low In Q4
(RTTNews) - Employment confidence in New Zealand fell to its lowest levels in the fourth quarter since 2004, results of a survey by Westpac and McDermott Miller showed Wednesday. The employment confidence index fell 17.2 points to 104 in the fourth quarter from 121.2 in the previous quarter.

U.S. Job-Market Collapse in 2008 Was Probably Biggest Since ?45
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. probably lost 525,000 jobs in December, capping the biggest collapse in employment since the end of World War II, economists said before a report today.

Gearing up for the jobs report
Stocks seesawed Thursday on worries about the consumer after weak retail sales, and ahead of the December employment report which is expected to show massive job losses.

Changes to city employment contracts to save money
The city of Upper Arlington has made a series of changes to the employment contracts of the city manager, city attorney and city clerk -- the three employees who report directly to city council.

Employment department now open on Saturdays
The Newport office of WorkSource Oregon Employment Department is now open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The office is located at 120 NE Avery Street.

China to promote graduates' employment amid "austere" job situation
The State Council, or cabinet, pledged on Wednesday to give top priority to the employment of university graduates, reflecting the spread of the global financial crisis and the "austere" job situation. Premier Wen Jiabao presided over a cabinet meeting on the issue of employment of university graduates. The meeting called these graduates China's "valuable human resources". The council decided to ...

Employment and Employability Institute gearing up to retrain retrenched workers
SINGAPORE: With retrenchments in Singapore expected to rise in the next few months, the labour movement's Employment and Employability Institute (E2i) is gearing up to take in more retrenched workers for skills retraining.

China pledges to boost employment in 2009 amid global job cuts
Amid waves of job cuts worldwide, China has embarked on active measures to minimize job cuts and has pledged to boost employment this year. The financial crisis continues to hurt the fourth largest economy and pushed many enterprises to cut their headcounts. The following provinces are among the many in the country that have striven to stabilize their job markets. South China's Yangtze River ...

SC House speaker wants audit of employment agency
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - The speaker of the South Carolina House says he'll ask the Legislative Audit Council to review the Employment Security Commission.

U.S. employment worries send stock markets sharply lower
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market is sharply lower in early trading following a six-session winning streak. New York indexes were also lower as a private sector employment report raised fears that Friday's non-farm jobs report for December will come in much worse than expected.

US ADP employment report shows a huge increase on unemployment in December
FXstreet.com (Barcelona) ? Non farm private employment seems to have3 posted a historical decline in December, with employment declining in all three main economic sectors and a specially sharp decline in the services sector, according to data released by Automatic Data Processing.

Bonds close stronger ahead of US report
The Australian bond market has closed stronger ahead of the release of a key employment report to show the US lost half a million jobs in December.

US jobs market faces next big hit
The US economy probably lost 525,000 jobs in December, capping the biggest collapse in employment since the end of World War II

U.S. markets mixed Thursday
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. markets were mixed Thursday on weak employment news and Macy's announcement that it would close 11 stores due to a downturn in sales.

Immigration Firm to Merge With Seyfarth Shaw
The immigration law specialty firm Paparelli & Partners is merging with Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, which will expand its labor and employment business immigration practice group with the new team of eight attorneys and nine staffers. Seyfarth last month laid off 30 lawyers due to the economic decline, but it added 14 business services lawyers to its New York office in November. Last year, ...

STOCKTON SET TO HOST RE-EMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP -- Stockton College has high hopes that an upcoming job conference will help some of South Jersey's unemployed and under-employed make ends meet.

Bulgaria Trade Union to Come out with Employment Forecast in March
A credible forecast on the employment downturn in Bulgaria caused by the effects of the global financial crisis will be made in the end of March, chair of the KNSB trade union Zhelyazko Hristov has announced.

Finding employment in a recession
With the unemployment rate on the rise, job applicants must increasingly find creative ways to stand out among others who were recently laid off, newly graduated, are coming out of retirement, or looking for a second job.