Results for employment: 472

SYDNEY, March 12 - Australian employment estimates for February, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. Feb '09 Jan '09 Feb '08 Unemployment rate 5.2 pct 4.8 pct 3.9 pct Employed 10.810 mln...

SYDNEY, March 3 - Australia on Tuesday ruled out raising the mandatory employer contribution to workers' pension funds, which is now set at 9 percent of income and is deemed inadequate by the country's powerful...

SYDNEY, Jan 15 - Australian employment estimates for December, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. Dec '08 Nov '08 Dec '07 Unemployment rate 4.5 pct 4.4 pct 4.2 pct Employed 10.742 mln...

SINGAPORE, Oct 31 - Employment growth in Singapore slowed in the third quarter, with the jobs market expected to deteriorate further as the global financial crisis takes its toll on an economy in already in...

SYDNEY, Oct 9 - Australian employment estimates for September, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. Sept'08 August Sept '07 Unemployment rate 4.3 pct 4.1 pct 4.2 pct Employed 10.737 mln 10.735 mln...

Sept 19 - Employment in Hong Kong's manufacturing sector in June 2008 fell 3.2 percent from a year earlier, the Census and Statistics Department said on Friday. Employment in major Hong Kong sectors (percent change...

NEW YORK, Nov 6 - U.S. stocks fell at the open on Friday after U.S. unemployment reached a more than 26-year high and topped the psychologically important 10 percent level. The Dow Jones industrial average...

In the export-oriented Yangtze and Pearl River Delta regions, local economies have shown signs of recovery, with jobs opening up and enterprises seeking employees to help fill new orders, sources reported.Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, for example, currently has about 100,000 job vacancies. New orders...

* Oil edges down towards $71 a barrel after 6-week high * Prices headed for fourth week of gains but downside seen * Awaits U.S. July unemployment data * U.S. Federal Trade Commission to crack...

* Asia unemployment levels less severe than West * Export reliance, rising costs may increase layoffs * Laying off staff more difficult in Asia * Lack of social safety nets, labour laws make it difficult...