Word: laboral
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...clear how many green jobs exist in America today - in part because there's no definite agreement on what constitutes a green job. A study by the International Labor Organization, the U.N. Environment Program determined that approximately 2.3 million people worldwide had found new jobs in the renewable energy sector in recent years, and that nearly 8.5 million people would be working in those industries by 2030. In the U.S., everything from solar power to energy efficiency is potentially poised to take off if Obama can pass carbon-capping legislation, as he has pledged - and many of those green jobs...
...creation is like every other part of the economic fabric. Even when an economy is at its worst, some small set of firms which usually have capital and a need for workers find that labor costs are so low that the risks of bringing in a new person or people is extremely modest. And, of course, if the burden of employing new workers is too great or the company's prospects turn worse, the most recent people hired are often the first people fired...
...rallies—held at 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.—were comprised by members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the Services Employees International Union, the Student Labor Action Movement, and the Cambridge political group Socialist Alternative...
Carrying signs reading, “Layoffs are not the new Crimson,” “Harvard is more than just students,” and “Solidarity is Hot,” protestors picketed outside of the offices of Harvard’s Labor and Employee Relations Department...
...case has caused a furor. Abortion is illegal in Brazil except in cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger, both of which apply in this case. (The girl's immature hips would have made labor dangerous; the Catholic opinion was that she could have had a cesarean section.) When the incident came to light in local newspapers, the Church first asked a judge to halt the process and then condemned those involved, including the 9-year-old's distraught mother. Even Catholic Brazilians were shocked at the harshness of the archbishop's actions. "In this...