ILO report suggests global unemployment to increase in 2024
Global unemployment is expected to rise this year, with growing inequality and stagnant productivity also a cause for concern on the economic horizon, the UN labour agency ILO said on Wednesday.
Report shows unemployment has spiked in Afghanistan in past 2 years
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently released a report and said the number of unemployed people in Afghanistan has increased significantly in the past two years, media reports said.
Fresh graduates in China angry over growing unemployment
Beijing: Chinese fresh graduates are dissatisfied and angry over growing unemployment in the country as they are facing difficulties in getting jobs matching their qualifications, Tibet Press reported.
Arab region registers world’s highest unemployment rate, UN survey finds
New York: According to the latest UN survey, released on Friday, the Arab region registered a 12 per cent unemployment rate in 2022, the highest in the world.
UK unemployment moves down to 4.7pc amid rise in vacancies: Statistics Service
London/UNI/Sputnik: Unemployment in the United Kingdom has dropped to 4.7per cent from April to June amid a record surge in vacancies, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday.
Ravages of acute hunger will likely hit six in 10 in Zimbabwe: WFP
New York: The World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently seeking more international support to prevent millions of Zimbabweans plunging deeper into hunger. The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated an already severe hunger crisis in Zimbabwe, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday.
Most deprived children face biggest risk of unemployment: Study
New York: Children growing up in jobless households will be less likely to gain employment in an economic recession, according to a new cross-European study led by UCL and the University of Bath.
New York/IBNS: Around half a billion people work fewer paid hours than they would like, or are not getting enough access to paid work, shows a study published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Monday, which also forecasts that unemployment will rise by about 2.5 million this year.
With AI, jobs are changing but no mass unemployment expected – UN labour experts
New York, Sept 5 (IBNS): The rise of frontier technologies like Artificial Intelligence has caused fears of robots taking over blue-collar jobs, but a United Nations expert says humans still have the upper hand given their creativity and ability to form relationships.
Unemployment in oil-rich Alberta hits 9 per cent, highest in 22 years
Calgary, Dec 3 (IBNS) November seemed to be the month when 10.3 per cent Albertans still remained jobless pushing the unemployment rate the highest since 1994, according to Statistics Canada latest labour survey.