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Global Report - 29-October-2008
http://www.instablogs.com/ Foreigners laid off in Japanese downturn Foreigners who are among the first laborers in Japan to lose their jobs as the global financial crisis eats into demand for cars, trucks and motorcycles. The layoffs are the first evidence that the mushrooming economic meltdown in the United States and elsewhere which is shaking the Japanese labor market. At the core of the trend are hard times for the Japanese car industry. No. 1 producer Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker too is cutting back on domestic production. Most vulnerable to layoffs are the foreign workers who meet Japan's labor shortage as the country ages. Foreigners are often hired through temporary employment agencies, so they can be easily fired. They live in company housing, so they lose their apartments when they lose their jobs. There hasn't been a marked increase in homelessness, but anecdotes of foreigners having to move in with friends or relatives abound. Some foreign laborers have already abandoned Japan amid mounting troubles. Nepal's Child Soldiers Maoist child soldiers in Nepal are facing tough problems in terms o their reintegration with their respective families. Many of these child soldiers are struggling as civilians - having lost the power they once had as feared rebels and paying the price for their stance during the 10 year civil war. Almost 3,000 child soldiers, who have been confirmed as underage by the UN, are still living in Maoist camps across the country, with the former rebels afraid they will be re-recruited by other armed groups if they are released. There are specifically concerns that they might join other armed groups and there are people who, even if they came very late into the cantonments, have had some degree of physical and even military training there. Although UNICEF and other children's organisations have started working with child soldiers, both inside and outside the camps, to facilitate their return home. The process, however, is expected to be a tedious one. Child poverty in Britain Britain has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the industrialized world which is "shaming" this country. Around 3.6 million children, 28 per cent of the total, are living in poverty despite efforts by the Government to tackle the problem. It is appalling that in Britain in 2005 there are children whose parents cannot afford even the basic necessities others take for granted, such as a warm winter coat and three meals a day. We are seeing a new determination to tackle poverty but it is vital that we keep up the pressure on the Government to stick to its pledge to eradicate poverty by 2020. Poverty shames a relatively wealthy country like ours and we have a duty to stamp it out. It is shameful that poverty is still the greatest single threat to the well-being of children and families in the UK. India's no to refugees Refugees are the last thing India wants at this hour. Our country is already flooded with migrants and refugees from neighboring countries. India's porous borders allow all and sundry to escape lives full of destitution on account of war or poverty back home. Such influx has raised domestic problems within India. Our neighbors never get tired of exerting their political, social and economic sovereignty, their indisputable right to resolve the issues within their boundaries without any external interference. Good, they should. At the same time they must remember that right and responsibilities go hand in hand. If they cannot fulfill their responsibility of ensuring their safety they have no right to object to statements that arise from countries which are at risk of getting affected by their internal problems. It must understand that we cannot and will not provide for the refugee influx. To prevent that is the only option before Sri Lankans. http://www.instablogs.com/ More»
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Police Seek Shoppers Who Trampled Wal-Mart Worker
December 1, 2008 NEW YORK (CW11 News) -- Police are reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down. Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective L More.. t. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said. At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries. The store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening. Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion. "This crowd was out of control," Fleming said. He described the scene as "utter chaos," and said the store didn't have enough security. Dozens of store employees trying to fight their way out to help Damour were also getting trampled by the crowd, Fleming said. Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store. Damour, 34, of Queens, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 6 a.m., police said. The exact cause of death has not been determined. A 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, where she and the baby were reported to be OK, said police Sgt. Anthony Repalone. Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages." "When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,"' she said. "They kept shopping." Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a "tragic situation" and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store. It said it tried to prepare for the crowd by adding staffers and outside security workers, putting up barricades and consulting police. "Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred," senior Vice President Hank Mullany said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those impacted." A woman reported being trampled by overeager customers at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in Farmingdale, about 15 miles east of Valley Stream, Suffolk County police said. She suffered minor injuries, but finished shopping before filling the report, police said. Less..
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Portland-area temp workers losing jobs
Portland-area temp workers losing jobs Portland, Oregon-areas temp workers lost 1,600 jobs last month, according to state figures that placed the Rose City's unemployment rate at 6.9 percent. The city's jobless rate, up from September's 5.8 percent, is the highest since 2004, when the region was emerging from a recession. But it's lower than the 7.3 percent in October. The temporary-help industry lost 1,600 jobs in October as companies prepared for the current recession. Temp workers, who accounted for more than half of the 2,800 jobs lost in the professional and business services sector, are usually the first to go when firings become necessary. The retail trade dropped 600 jobs in October, to 109,000. Employment in construction, leisure and hospitality, financial activities and trade, transportation and utilities also shrank. Manufacturing lost 2,200 jobs, but 1,200 of those were Boeing jobs that have returned now that the strike against the aircraft manufacturer is over. Education and health services gained 2,700 jobs.
UM Hospitals to lay off 80 workers
http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com.com About 80 people will lose their jobs early next year at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, administrators have announced. The layoffs will affect one half of one percent of the hospital system's 12,500 employees. CEO Doug Strong said the layoffs are necessary despite efforts to meet budget goals through attrition, a hiring freeze and reductions in overtime and temporary positions. Strong said he can't rule out further layoffs, but hospital administrators hope they won't be necessary. He would not identify which departments will be effected by the layoffs, but said they are "almost all" positions that wouldn't be involved directly with patient care. The employees who are losing their jobs will be told in early December. The earliest layoffs will be effective at the end of January.
http://www.instablogs.com/ Foreigners laid off in Japanese downturn Foreigners who are among the first laborers in Japan to lose their jobs as the global financial crisis eats into demand for cars, trucks and motorcycles. The layoffs are the first evidence that the mushrooming economic meltdown in the United States and elsewhere which is shaking the Japanese labor market. At the core of the trend are hard times for the Japanese car industry. No. 1 producer Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker too is cutting back on domestic production. Most vulnerable to layoffs are the foreign workers who meet Japan's labor shortage as the country ages. Foreigners are often hired through temporary employment agencies, so they can be easily fired. They live in company housing, so they lose their apartments when they lose their jobs. There hasn't been a marked increase in homelessness, but anecdotes of foreigners having to move in with friends or relatives abound. Some foreign laborers have already abandoned Japan amid mounting troubles. Nepal's Child Soldiers Maoist child soldiers in Nepal are facing tough problems in terms o their reintegration with their respective families. Many of these child soldiers are struggling as civilians - having lost the power they once had as feared rebels and paying the price for their stance during the 10 year civil war. Almost 3,000 child soldiers, who have been confirmed as underage by the UN, are still living in Maoist camps across the country, with the former rebels afraid they will be re-recruited by other armed groups if they are released. There are specifically concerns that they might join other armed groups and there are people who, even if they came very late into the cantonments, have had some degree of physical and even military training there. Although UNICEF and other children's organisations have started working with child soldiers, both inside and outside the camps, to facilitate their return home. The process, however, is expected to be a tedious one. Child poverty in Britain Britain has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the industrialized world which is "shaming" this country. Around 3.6 million children, 28 per cent of the total, are living in poverty despite efforts by the Government to tackle the problem. It is appalling that in Britain in 2005 there are children whose parents cannot afford even the basic necessities others take for granted, such as a warm winter coat and three meals a day. We are seeing a new determination to tackle poverty but it is vital that we keep up the pressure on the Government to stick to its pledge to eradicate poverty by 2020. Poverty shames a relatively wealthy country like ours and we have a duty to stamp it out. It is shameful that poverty is still the greatest single threat to the well-being of children and families in the UK. India's no to refugees Refugees are the last thing India wants at this hour. Our country is already flooded with migrants and refugees from neighboring countries. India's porous borders allow all and sundry to escape lives full of destitution on account of war or poverty back home. Such influx has raised domestic problems within India. Our neighbors never get tired of exerting their political, social and economic sovereignty, their indisputable right to resolve the issues within their boundaries without any external interference. Good, they should. At the same time they must remember that right and responsibilities go hand in hand. If they cannot fulfill their responsibility of ensuring their safety they have no right to object to statements that arise from countries which are at risk of getting affected by their internal problems. It must understand that we cannot and will not provide for the refugee influx. To prevent that is the only option before Sri Lankans. http://www.instablogs.com/ More»
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Act assert that the program makes it “too easy” for firms to hire temporary foreign workers. The documents also state that bringing in a large number of temporary foreign workers has a negative impact on existing wages and employment. ...
Police Seek Shoppers Who Trampled Wal-Mart Worker
December 1, 2008 NEW YORK (CW11 News) -- Police are reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down. Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective L More.. t. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said. At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries. The store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening. Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion. "This crowd was out of control," Fleming said. He described the scene as "utter chaos," and said the store didn't have enough security. Dozens of store employees trying to fight their way out to help Damour were also getting trampled by the crowd, Fleming said. Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store. Damour, 34, of Queens, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 6 a.m., police said. The exact cause of death has not been determined. A 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, where she and the baby were reported to be OK, said police Sgt. Anthony Repalone. Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages." "When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,"' she said. "They kept shopping." Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a "tragic situation" and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store. It said it tried to prepare for the crowd by adding staffers and outside security workers, putting up barricades and consulting police. "Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred," senior Vice President Hank Mullany said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those impacted." A woman reported being trampled by overeager customers at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in Farmingdale, about 15 miles east of Valley Stream, Suffolk County police said. She suffered minor injuries, but finished shopping before filling the report, police said. Less..
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Family Of Wal-Mart Employee Jdimytai Damour Sues Over Trampling Death
Due to the Worker's Compensation laws and laws relative to temporary workers, his family will have a very heavy burden to hold Wal-Mart legally responsible for his death. They may need to show gross negligence to prevail. ...
Portland-area temp workers losing jobs
Portland-area temp workers losing jobs Portland, Oregon-areas temp workers lost 1,600 jobs last month, according to state figures that placed the Rose City's unemployment rate at 6.9 percent. The city's jobless rate, up from September's 5.8 percent, is the highest since 2004, when the region was emerging from a recession. But it's lower than the 7.3 percent in October. The temporary-help industry lost 1,600 jobs in October as companies prepared for the current recession. Temp workers, who accounted for more than half of the 2,800 jobs lost in the professional and business services sector, are usually the first to go when firings become necessary. The retail trade dropped 600 jobs in October, to 109,000. Employment in construction, leisure and hospitality, financial activities and trade, transportation and utilities also shrank. Manufacturing lost 2,200 jobs, but 1,200 of those were Boeing jobs that have returned now that the strike against the aircraft manufacturer is over. Education and health services gained 2,700 jobs.
UM Hospitals to lay off 80 workers
http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com.com About 80 people will lose their jobs early next year at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, administrators have announced. The layoffs will affect one half of one percent of the hospital system's 12,500 employees. CEO Doug Strong said the layoffs are necessary despite efforts to meet budget goals through attrition, a hiring freeze and reductions in overtime and temporary positions. Strong said he can't rule out further layoffs, but hospital administrators hope they won't be necessary. He would not identify which departments will be effected by the layoffs, but said they are "almost all" positions that wouldn't be involved directly with patient care. The employees who are losing their jobs will be told in early December. The earliest layoffs will be effective at the end of January.