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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Canada adds (Online jobs) jobs in Feb despite factory losses

MSNBC - OTTAWA - The Canadian economy added more jobs than expected in February thanks to strong hiring in the services sector and despite heavy factory layoffs, suggesting a still-strong labor market. Statistics Canada Friday said employers added 14,200
Seattle Post Intelligencer - BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Europe needs to create "good jobs and fair conditions," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday as the EU's executive arm promised guidelines for more flexible labor laws to promote job growth. But Merkel acknowledged that
MSN UK News - LONDON (Reuters) - The government has backed down in a row over the computerised selection of junior doctors for specialist National Health Service posts after hundreds of the most capable applicants failed even to win interviews. Medics who were
MSN MoneyCentral - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. staffing companies were mostly higher on Friday after an essentially in-line monthly U.S. employment report that reflected slow but steady growth and sharp upward revisions from prior months. The U.S. economy added
MSN MoneyCentral - It looks like U.S. job growth slowed last month -- it's just not clear by how much. In the government's February employment report for the month scheduled for release Mar. 9, we at Action Economics peg February nonfarm payroll growth at only 90,000
Wired - A judge ordered Apple last January to pay the $700,000 legal fees of two websites that reported on an unreleased product code-named "Asteroid." Apple had sued the sites seeking the identities of leakers within its ranks, but lost the case. I was