Word: laboral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does your country feel about these restrictions? Well, they are part of the accession agreement. But I am sure that the future will show that Bulgarian workers are not a danger for the European labor market...
...last decade, some 10% of the Bulgarian population has departed. Will you take any measures to stop the flow? I am sure that, with the opening up of the European labor markets, there will be increased interest among Bulgarians to leave, specifically nurses, doctors and some other specialized fields. But at the same time, there is an increased interest from Bulgarians who left the country years ago and are planning to come back...
...fallen so sharply, from 14% in 2000 to about 4% today, that businesses are scrambling to find workers. "This is the best time in our history," says Sten Tamkivi, Skype's Estonian operations manager. Skype has 250 people in Estonia and reckons that it will have exhausted the local labor market once it gets to 350. Employers are extra nice. "Every evening I'm almost standing at the door and asking everyone as they leave, 'Did you enjoy yourself, and can I expect to see you tomorrow?'" says Teet Jagomagi, not entirely joking. He runs a mapping-software company...
Most Estonians, enjoying a boost in living standards, are hoping the boom can continue. But there's at least one caveat: Estonia needs to resolve its labor shortage. "We are running out of people," says Craig Rawlings, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Tallinn. Still, Estonia has shown that it can improvise. "We're a very small country," says Skype's Tamkivi. "That means we just have to be efficient." So far, they've managed...
...until the crack of doom--remember this: China is still a poor country (GDP per head in 2005 was $1,700, compared with $42,000 in the U.S.) whose leaders face so many problems that it is reasonable to wonder how they ever sleep. The country's urban labor market recently exceeded by 20% the number of new jobs created. Its pension system is nonexistent. China is an environmental dystopia, its cities' air foul beyond imagination and its clean water scarce. Corruption is endemic and growing. Protests and riots by rural workers are measured in the tens of thousands each...