Walmart Canada laid off 210 people at its head office in Ontario
Walmart Canada laid off 210 people on Tuesday, with most of the people let go located at the company’s head office in Mississauga, Ontario.
Management and non-management...
Darden announces job cuts, costs to save $20 million annually
Darden Restaurants Inc. has announced that it will be cutting jobs in an effort to lower costs. The company is trying to reshape itself...
UK pay growth beats inflation for first time in five years
UK average pay growth (excl. bonuses) at 1.3% in September beat inflation at 1.2%, according to data published on Wednesday by the Office for...
Canada’s unemployment rate plunges to 6.5% in October from 6.8% in September
Canada’s unemployment rate in October fell to 6.5% from 6.8% in September, with private-sector employers hiring more as they prepare for growing demand from...
Young unemployed Canadians should work for free, BoC Governor says
Young unemployed Canadians should consider unpaid work, Stephen Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada said. It is important that they bolster their resumes...
Wage gap smaller in public than private sector, Canada
There is a smaller wage gap between men, women, aboriginal and minority workers in Canada in the public sector than in the private sector,...
Record 5.2 million Brits on low-paid jobs, says think tank Resolution Foundation
The number of workers in the UK on low-paid jobs increased by 250,000 in 2013 to 5.2 million, says the Resolution Foundation, a think...
Amazing excuses workers use to miss work
Would you believe an employee who said he accidentally got onto an airplane, or another who said he or she got stuck in a...
The UK’s top 100 directors’ earnings up 21%
The directors of the UK’s top 100 publicly listed companies earn 120 times the average that their employees earn, according to a recent report...
September unemployment rate down to 5.9%
In September, the private sector created 248,000 new jobs, bringing the unemployment rate down by 0.2 of a percentage point to 5.9%, according to...