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The article reports on how information technology (IT) firms like Nordcurrent have evacuated their employees to safety when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. According to Ukrainian staff Inha Kushnir, she relocated to the firm's headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania due to the invasion. Also cited is Ukraine's IT diaspora to other countries like Poland, Germany, and Spain.

The article reports on the claims that investment bank Morgan Stanley is planning to terminate around 2% of its employees around the world due to the alleged slowdown of deal-making.

The article informs that real estate brokerage firm Redfin will lay off 13 percent of its work force to cut costs amid slowing housing market.

The article reports that Snap, the maker of the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat, is laying off 20 percent of its employees, discontinuing six products due to challenging macroeconomic conditions, and promoting its first chief operating officer Jerry Hunter from the senior vice president position.

The article reports on the staffing crisis in federal prisons across the U.S. due to the government's hiring freeze policy. Topics discussed include prisons' practice of using support staff as substitute guards due to the shortage of correctional officers, staff members' inadequate training in correctional work, and the increasing violent behavior of prisoners as inexperienced staff members are having difficulty in handling dangerous situations.

The author comments on the plan of U.S. President Donald Trump to make the country the leading energy force worldwide. The topics discussed include the likelihood for the people to be disappointed should he failed to realize his promise, the rise of prices of coal and oil prices, and the status of unemployment in the labor industry of Utah and Colorado.

The article reports on several employees laid of by newspaper startup Substack in effort to conserve cash amid industrywide funding crunch and mentions views of Chris Best, chief executive officer (CEO) at the company, on the same.

The article reports on the historic shift in the labor force in the U.S. favoring workers as of June 2021, forcing companies to offer better wages, training and opportunities. Also cited are the Burning Glass Technologies data showing that jobseekers are demanding higher pay, and the claim by Randstad North America's Karen Fichuk that firms should strive harder to attract and retain workers.

The article reports on the two trillion dollar infrastructure plan launched by U.S. President Joe Biden in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in March 2021, which aims to fight climate change and create thousands of good paying jobs. The plan includes building wind and solar power plants, new roads and bridges, and manufacturing electric cars. Also mentioned are the key role played by Democratic Senator Joe Manchin III in advancing Biden's plan and the comment by union leader Shawn Steffee on the plan.

The article discusses the challenges, experiences, anxieties, and paranoias experienced by remote workers in the U.S. amidst the coronavirus pandemic by citing the struggles faced by employees like Therese Nauwelaertz and Shireen Ali-Khan. Also cited is the comment of professor Roderick M. Kramer on topics like organizational and social paranoia.

The article offers information on economic advisers who were nominated by U.S. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to become members of his economic team. These include Janet L. Yellen as secretary of the Treasury Department, Neera Tanden as head of the Office of Management and Budget, and Heather Boushey as member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Also mentioned are the issues that the team will focus on including unemployment and worker empowerment.

The article reports that Republican supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump are complaining that the big technology companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, are not treating Trump fairly. Topics covered include the Congress's tech hearings last July 2020 wherein a congressman hinted that Google was making it difficult for him to find a pro-Trump website, and the big tech's role as the referees that control what people see when they search, browse or post online.

The article discusses the resistance of grass-roots coalition Athena to electronic commerce firm Amazon. Topics explored include highlights of the 2019 report "Too Big to Govern," published by nonprofit group Economic Roundtable which examined the economic impact of Amazon's business operations on local communities, the labor force of Amazon compared to the workforce of technology firm Google, and the public costs associated with the warehousing operations of Amazon.

The article reports on the possible deportation of Salvadoran construction workers working in Washington, D.C. The deportation is the result of the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to revoke the legal immigration status of 400,000 immigrants from six nations. Contractors are expected to face delays and high costs as they face labor shortages.

The article discusses the impact of coal mine bankruptcies and layoffs on the employment rate in Letcher County, Kentucky. Men have lost jobs with good benefits and income. As a result, many women have looked for jobs. The trend has caused a shift in the gender balance of the county's labor force during the period from 2010 to 2017.

The article reports on the gig economy for chefs. It mentions the use of mobile apps such as Pared and Instawork to provide chefs for restaurants, the problems of labor shortages in the restaurant industry, and the issues of problems like the lack of benefits that other gig economies have.

The article reports that factories in France are facing a labor shortage, despite the country's unemployment rate of over 8 percent as of 2019. Topics covered include the companies' struggle to modernize, the low minimum wage, and an image problem faced by the manufacturing industry after decades of competition from Asia and the Eastern Europe. Also discussed are efforts by the government to enhance the industry's appeal among workers.

Presents statistics illustrating labor market trends in the United States for January 2005. Unemployment rates; Demographics of the employed workforce.

Reports on the decrease of the unemployment rate in Brazil in December of 2005 attributable to the temporary hiring for the Christmas holiday season and the country's economic growth.

Reports that the unemployment rate in Germany has increased in December 2004, due to seasonal factors.

Reports that Cardinal Health has said that it would cut thousands of jobs.

Presents graphs about New York's regional employment figures as of November 2004. Unemployment rates; New unemployment claims; Employment rates per industry.

Reports that unemployment in the growing economies of New Zealand and Australia are at their record lows in 2004.

Reports on the unemployment rate in Canada for the month of October 2004.

Reports on the increase in unemployment rate in Germany in October 2004.

Reports on a statewide ballot in Wyoming in November 2004, on the State Constitution's barring of the Legislature from imposing limits on how much people can collect because of an injury or death. Aim of addressing the problem of how to keep doctors in small towns; Higher cost of malpractice premiums in the state; Opponents' claim that the measure would enrich the big insurance companies and doctors; Study conducted in 2003 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which supported the idea that putting caps on medical malpractice payouts could lead to more physicians.

Reports on the state-by-state data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed that job creation slowed to a crawl in some swing states. Decline in Ohio's employment rate; Consistency of the data which the broader slowdown in economic growth.

Reports that New York City's unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since September 2001 in the month of August 2004. Decline in the state unemployment rate; Industrial sectors that drove the job growth.

Reports on the release of the book entitled "Bonjour Paresse," written by Corinne Maier. Her invitation for French workers to disengage themselves from work; Efforts of the French government in encouraging citizens to work longer hours; Maier's views on corporate culture.

Reports on the rise in the Australian unemployment rate in August 2004.

Reports on the thousands of people that participated in the protests against labor market reforms in Magdeburg, Germany on August 9, 2004.

Reports on the performance of the U.S. labor market in July 2004.

Presents statistics on regional employment in the United States as of July 11, 2004. Unemployment rates; Unemployment claims; Total New York metro area employment.

Reports that Canada added 24,700 jobs in June 2004 as governments hired health and social assistance workers. Unemployment rate rose to 7.3 percent; Number of people working or looking for work rose by 39,100; Job creation and housing are leading Canada's economy for a third year.

Reports on the status of the labor market in the United States in June. Employment and unemployment by demographic and type of work; Hidden unemployment; Share of population.

Presents employment figures for June 2004 in New York City. Decline in unemployment rates; Decline in new unemployment claims; Comparison of employment figures between different industries; Help wanted index.

Reports on the decline of unemployment rate in Brazil in May 2004.

The article highlights a research which suggests that the number of "disconnected" young people defined as those who are in neither school nor the work force is growing; and mentions that the number of women who have dropped out of some form of education or plan to is on the rise.

The article discusses about Jordan's women status in terms of labor force participation, health and politics which has been regressing as Marwa Alomari, a popular English teacher until her husband and his family discouraged her from working.

The article discusses Myanmar's coup leaders have called on hundreds of thousands of government employees - doctors, garbage collectors, electricity workers - to set "emotion" aside, abandon pnr tests for the military and return to work.

The article reports on the status of federal workforce under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Topics mentioned include change in federal agency staffing levels from 2016 to 2020, Trump's politicization of normally neutral positions and frequent criticism of his own bureaucracy, and workers' confidence in the Civil Service system.

The article focuses on the important role played by refugees in alleviating labor shortages and boosting city budgets in several U.S. states and upstate cities. Topics covered include the impact of the immigration policy of the administration of President Donald Trump on upstate cities in New York, efforts by several states to expand their workforce and increase population, and the screening of asylum seekers and refugees.

The article focuses on the "slave law," a bill introduced by the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to address the acute labor shortage in the country which would allow employers to require up to 400 hours of overtime each year from their workers. Topics covered include recovery of the Hungarian economy since Orban retook power in 2010, impact of Orban's anti-immigration policy on manufacturers and role of the out-migration of Hungarians to work abroad in the shortage.

The article reports on lower growth in the number of people working which will mean slower growth in economic output in the U.S. Topics discussed include the effect of the baby boom generation hitting retirement age, many younger workers moving to urban centers on the coasts and proportion of U.S. counties that experienced a decline in the number of residents ages 25 to 54 between 2007 and 2017.

The article reports on an increase in the average wage of nonsupervisory workers in residential construction in the U.S. as of April 2019. Topics discussed include the shrinking labor force, President Donald Trump's threat to close the Mexican border, the problem faced by builders related to the recovery in home buildings outpacing the growth of the construction labor force and the impact of the shortage of immigrant workers.

The article focuses on the struggles of Chinese electronics business owner Shao Chunyou which reflect the negative impact of China's growth on entrepreneurs. Topics covered include the transformation of China from being the world's cheap factory to a high-value manufacturing destination that needs to adopt automation and innovation. The problem posed by the growing cost of labor and a shortage of workers is also cited.

The article reports that unemployment rate in the U.S. fell to 3.7 percent in September 2018, its lowest since 1969. Topics discussed include indications that the economy is strong, the effect of economic data on the 2018 midterm elections, and the negative effect of the shrinking pool of labor. Also mentioned is the potential impact of tariff on the economy.

The article focuses on the campaign of the government of China to encourage parents to have more children which is a reversal for the ruling Communist Party's one-child policy. Topics covered include the call of the Shaanxi government to abolish all birth limits, decision of some Chinese provincial governments to tighten access to abortion and make it more difficult for married people to get divorced and impact of low birth rate on China's labor force.

The article reports on the move by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump as of July 2018 to ease federal rules and attract nontraditional drivers such as teenagers, minorities and women to resolve the shortage of truck drivers in the country. Also cited are the required number of drivers as cited by the American Trucking Associations, as well as the move by the government to allow younger drivers with military background to operate commercial vehicles.

The article reports an increase in wages in the eurozone in 2018 after years of stagnation which baffled economists. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has welcomed the trend and has announced the discontinuation of the central bank's stimulus measure by the end of the year. Several theories emerged for the wage increase including the acute labor shortage in Germany, the decline of unions, and globalization.