Employment

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95 metro areas had increases in nonfarm employment from ... (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Ninety-five metro areas had increases in nonfarm employment from November 2021 to November 2022, and 294 were essentially unchanged.

Ninety-five metro areas had increases in nonfarm employment from November 2021 to November 2022, and 294 were essentially unchanged. Top ten largest gains and losses in nonfarm employment by metropolitan area, November 2021 to November 2022 Top ten largest gains and losses in nonfarm employment by metropolitan area, November 2021 to November 2022 The over-the-year employment increase in Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey, was 9,400, while Charleston-North Charleston, South Carolina, had an increase of 24,900 and Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Illinois, had an increase of 11,400. 95 metro areas had increases in nonfarm employment from November 2021 to November 2022 The largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment occurred in Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey, (7.3 percent), Charleston-North Charleston, South Carolina (6.6 percent), and Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Illinois, (6.4 percent).

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As the nature of work evolves, we need fresh solutions to ... (City A.M.)

For better or worse, unions currently feel omnipresent. But within this political quagmire of public sector pay demands and strikes, the oft-quoted defence ...

There can be very different settlements as to the right balance of rights and freedom in different types of work. There are numerous benefits to non-traditional work – control, flexibility and a higher income – and workers rightfully want to retain this. To compound weak union membership, labour market regulation in the UK is haphazard and difficult to navigate, especially for non-traditional work. Sporadic improvement through voluntary arrangements and lengthy court battles are about the extent of progress for non-traditional workers. Non-traditional workers are currently faced with an unlovely combination of weak bargaining power and weak employment regulations. Yet employment regulation shouldn’t simply be an ambition of the left.

Employment Tip Of The Month – January 2023 (Mondaq News Alerts)

Q: Are there considerations our company needs to address if we use biometric time tracking software for our employees to record their hours worked?

Legislation generally based on BIPA's framework is currently pending in a growing number of states, including California, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri and New York. BIPA provides for an aggrieved person to recover reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, and damages that are the greater of (1) actual damages or (2) liquidated damages of $1,000 for each negligent violation or $5,000 for each reckless or intentional violation. BIPA requires private entities to:

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Women: Education, employment, empowerment | ORF (Observer Research Foundation)

Despite high education among women, the rate of women's employment is very low in India. According to data compiled by the World Bank,

India ranks 135th in the [Global Gender Gap Index in 2022](https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2022/). The employment to population percentage in India according to the World Bank data is [72.2 percent ](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.MA.NE.ZS?locations=IN)for males and [25 percent](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.FE.NE.ZS?locations=IN) for females. Bridging the gender gap in employment is thus not only the responsibility of one single stakeholder. [World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report, 2022](https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2022/), it will take 132 years to eliminate the prevailing gender gap in the workforce, globally. During the pandemic, women who worked in the informal sector as house-help and daily wage workers thus faced the [ brunt of unemployment](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/more-women-lost-jobs-in-the-pandemic-in-india-compared-to-men-says-expert/article38417389.ece). The recent rise in levels of women’s education has put a great number of women in the lowest part of the U-curve. [only 14 percent](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/there-are-too-few-women-in-science/articleshow/63575929.cms) of the total 280,000 scientists, engineers, and technologists in research development institutions in India are women. [data compiled by the World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.FE.ZS?locations=IN), the number of working women in India dropped from 24 percent to 18 percent between 2010 and 2020. The fact that female literacy and female employment share a [U-shaped relationship](https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/current-rate-female-participation-india-s-labor-force-unlikely-increase) has only recently been talked about and considered as one of the factors why the rates decline. [All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2019-20](https://www.education.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/statistics-new/aishe_eng.pdf), is more than that of male students which is 26.9 percent. This statistic is a call for attention, showcasing that India is far from achieving the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)—“inclusive and equitable quality education” and “lifelong learning opportunities for all” by 2030. Likewise, though [India tops the world in producing female graduates in STEM](https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/in-focus/2022/02/in-focus-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science), it [ranks 19th](https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/india-tops-the-world-in-producing-female-graduates-in-stem-but-ranks-19th-in-employing-them/articleshow/74117413.cms) in employing them.

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