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The German government has announced plans to boost the number of migrants arriving in the country in the hopes of bolstering its ageing workforce.

Chinese recruiting website 51job.com published a survey on Monday that found 68 percent of China’s senior citizens plan to return to work after “retirement,” and 30 percent felt “economic pressure” to do so.

Surging energy costs driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are not just hitting domestic consumers across Europe. Small to medium manufacturers are also feeling the financial pinch with many looking to relocate to ensure their future, a report Tuesday sets out.

The local government in Hanover, Germany will be reserving a third of newly-advertised jobs exclusively for migrants in order to increase the proportion of people with foreign backgrounds working for the city.

The Federal Reserve’s campaign to rein in the worst inflation in decades will end in a recession. But so long as unemployment remains low, it’s likely inflation will remain the top worry for households even if economic growth stalls.

One of Germany’s ruling government parties has demanded that Germany “immediately” take in even more migrants despite the country’s ongoing gas crisis.

Malevolent groups are using the huge H-1B visa-worker program to do bad things in the United States, says a shocked report in Axios.com.

A study from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) found 40 states require government work permits for teenage job-seekers that have the power to override parental decision-making.

The total number of people employed in the U.S. still lags behind the prepandemic level. The workforce participation rate has not recovered either.

A study released by the French Council for Economic Analysis has claimed that immigrants to France are typically low skilled and come mainly from only a few areas, such as North and sub-Saharan Africa.

The decline in cases in Florida and other southern states may be fueling growth in payrolls in restaurants, bars, hotels, and resorts.

Speaking at an event in Virginia, President Biden falsely claimed that there are more people working now than just before the pandemic struck.

The shortage of migrants and willing Americans is forcing food-industry CEOs to treat their employees with more respect, says the personnel chief at one of the nation’s largest restaurant firms.

Crime is on the rise in San Francisco but city officials have placed more than 180 employees including police and sheriff’s departments who have not received a coronavirus vaccine on paid leave, a move that triggers a process that could end in termination.

The median forecast was for 658,000 and an unemployment rate of 6.0 percent.

Media job cuts hit an all-time record high in 2020, and there is no sign those jobs are coming back.

Less than half of what economists had forecast.

Private payroll growth came in much weaker than expected for November.

The ADP number has been wildly offbase in recent months but it tends to get the direction of employment growth right.

LONDON (AP) — The number of people in employment in the UK fell by 220,000 in the three months after the country was put into lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed Tuesday.

Economists had forecast millions of jobs would be added by U.S. businesses.

White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump will launch a new ad campaign on Tuesday promoting the value of job training outside of the four-year university college system.

A total of 5.37 million jobs added in May and June

The widely reported tick up in black unemployment was due to a rising number of African Americans returning to the workforce

The NYT columnist and economist Paul Krugman made the unsubstantiated claim that the great May jobs numbers might be “cooked.” He later apologized while still downplaying the record gains.

The U.S. Census Bureau has launched a weekly survey of American households during the coronavirus outbreak.

Farm and feed retailer Tractor Supply Company announced Monday it will add 5,000 new jobs during the current coronavirus outbreak, calling the hiring drive its “most ambitious” ever.

A survey released this week from LendEDU reveals that Americans were already on shaky financial ground even before the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

A poll released on Tuesday shows 18 percent of respondents say they have either lost their job or had hours reduced because of coronavirus.

Economists had been expecting 177,000 jobs in February.

Defying naysaying anti-Brexiteers, the United Kingdom marked it departure from the European Union by recording the highest employment rate in history, with nearly 33 million people employed.

Job openings fell but the ratio of unemployed to openings remains at historically low levels, indicating labor market strength.

Businesses in the United States added 291,000 workers to private payrolls, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody’s Analytics

The economy of the United Kingdom has once again refused to conform to the doom and gloom prophecies of anti-Brexit economists, posting record job numbers ahead of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.

The imaginary recession of 2019 is over.

Job creation has cooled off in the second half of 2019 even as unemployment has remained near multi-decade lows.