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4/1/2004; 2:25:46 PM
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Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
More young part-timers expected in workforce
Friday, March 5, 2004 at 03:00 JST
TOKYO — The number of young workers without regular jobs in Japan is expected to reach a peak of 4.76 million in 2010, up from 4.17 million in 2001, posing a potential undermining risk on the country's economic growth, a private research institute said Thursday.
UFJ Institute Ltd. of the UFJ financial group attributed the growth in the number of such job-hoppers partly to the prolonged difficult employment situation for new graduates. (Kyodo News) [Japan Today: Business]
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Steelworkers union, Goodyear end dispute. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers of America on Wednesday settled a dispute over where its new line of tires is manufactured. The Pittsburgh-based union last week accused Goodyear of violating its labor contract by making the Assurance tires at a nonunion plant. AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Mar 3 2004 11:12PM GMT
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Indian trade team to visit UAE to boost cooperation. NEW DELHI: A high-powered Indian business delegation will Friday begin a six-day tour to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman to boost economic cooperation in the region, the organisers said Thursday. Silicon India Mar 4 2004 7:44PM GMT
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Boston schools will lop 66 off payroll
By Kevin Rothstein
Thursday, March 4, 2004
Boston schools are planning to ax 66 employees - including 10 teachers - from their payroll by next year, district officials said yesterday.
The cut in teachers is ``largely driven by our declining enrollment,'' Chief Financial Officer John P. McDonough told the Boston School Committee last night.
Overall the Boston Public Schools are seeking a 1 percent budget increase, not enough to stave off job cuts.
The layoffs will most hurt lunch monitors, who will see 30 of their own cleared out if the spending plan is approved.
An additional 14 school and central office administrative positions are slated to be cut, McDonough said.
Declining enrollment is driving other reductions in a handful of other schools.
Overall, the district is expecting 1,400 fewer students to show up next September, a 2 percent drop in enrollment. Boston Teachers Union President Richard Stutman said he expected as-yet unannounced retirements to offset the staffing situation.
Boston Herald Mar 4 2004 10:17AM GMT
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Pittsburgh Penn. School Board proposes closing 15 schools. In a proposal officials said would save millions of dollars a year and cut excess capacity by 9 percent, the board of education of the Pittsburgh Public Schools on Thursday proposed closing 15 school buildings around the city. Closing the buildings would also lead to about 129 layoffs. Pittsburgh Business Times Mar 4 2004 5:11PM GMT
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Talking About Outsourcing In an effort to help develop a progressive position on outsourcing--one that reflects a concern about the well-being of American workers and those in the countries to which many US jobs have fled--we have solicited three views on the subject. [The Nation]
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India hit by transport truck strike. NEARLY 40,000 transport trucks pulled off the roads in India's financial capital, today, protesting a court order to switch from diesel to a cleaner-burning fuel by December, a truckers' association head said. Townsville Bulletin Mar 4 2004 3:45PM GMT
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Boeing workers classified by nationality. Aerospace giant Boeing Australia has been granted a legal exemption to discriminate against employees on the basis of nationality to allow it to meet US anti-terror requirements.
The exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act, granted by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal last December, allows the company and six Boeing (US) subsidiaries to demand employees provide details of their birth, nationality and citizenship. Melbourne Age Mar 4 2004 2:19PM GMT
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Bus strike is on. Minneapolis Metro Transit bus drivers planned to strike at 2 a.m. today after several hours of last-ditch negotiations failed to produce agreement on a new contract, leaving 75,000 metro-area commuters to fend for themselves. Pioneer Planet Mar 4 2004 4:54PM GMT
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Hungary mirrors EU labour curbs. Hungary's Prime Minister has confirmed his country will respond in kind to labour curbs to be imposed by current EU members on Central European workers. BBC Mar 4 2004 6:24PM GMT
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries to up retirement age.
Friday, March 5, 2004 at 04:28 JST
TOKYO — Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd will eventually raise the retirement age for some of its employees from 60 to 63 to cope with an expected labor shortage, company officials said Thursday.
The retirement age will rise to 61 in fiscal 2005 and 62 in fiscal 2007. (Kyodo News)
[Japan Today: Business]
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Janice Kimball
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