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Fees for employment tribunals begin

2013-07-29 01:14:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

People bringing employment tribunals in the UK must now pay a fee, for the first time since they were created in the 1960s.

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Software employment grows 45 percent in 10 years as angst in engineering grows

2013-07-22 17:10:00| InfoWorld: Top News

You may remember Darin Wedel. Early last year, his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a town hall-style conference call, about H-1B visas. Her husband had been laid off from Texas Instruments, she told him, despite strong credentials that included a patent he held. Why does the government continue "to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?" Mrs. Wedel asked the president.

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Construction Week: Employment Picture Improves; Discovery of Burial Ground Halts Colo. Sewer Project

2013-07-10 19:15:51| ENR.com: Headline News

Construction starts slip in May as the Dodge Momentum Index stalls.

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Tech hiring accounts for 10 percent of U.S. employment gains

2013-07-08 22:31:50| InfoWorld: Top News

Hiring of technology professionals has been on the upswing in the first half of this year, with new IT hires accounting for about 10 percent of all the job growth in the U.S. in June, according to two independent assessments. Total tech employment reached 4.47 million in June, an increase of 22,600 jobs from the prior month, or a .51 percent gain, according to TechServe Alliance, an IT services industry group which tracks employment data month-to-month. The total excludes tech manufacturing employment.

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