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It’s always interesting when a government official or politician tries to spin something bad as something good. The terms ‘glass half full’ or ‘glass half empty’ make perfect sense, because they illustrate how a situation can be interpreted in different ways. But if you try to make a glass that …

The lingering coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdowns hit UK jobs particularly hard between June and August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has acknowledged. Cash-strapped businesses had to make tough decisions including slashing their workforce, which resulted in 138,000 more people being recorded as jobless than in the previous quarter, …

“I’ve not seen any projections of four million [unemployed materializing] but certainly we know that there are some 700,000 extra people that are already unemployed,” Eustice told Sky on Thursday. “It’s for precisely that reason that we are trying to avoid full lockdown.” The Office for Budget Responsibility forecast in …

Unemployment in Russia should amount to at least living wage in the region, and the maximum payment — to reach the average wage. This position was formulated in the Federation of independent trade unions of Russia (FNPR), sending a letter to the Russian tripartite Commission on regulation socially-labour relations. If …

The Minister of labour and social protection of Russia Anton Kotkov said that the unemployment rate of Russians will reach its peak in August-September. While in the fourth quarter will stabilize the situation, and then the number of unemployed will be reduced. However Kotkov recalled that according Rosstata April, the …

The regions of mass say about the growing shortage of money. Not backed by budget financing of Putin’s national projects, as well as the stated policy of indexation of salaries of doctors and teachers before, punched in the budgets of the regions, a fatal flaw. Now, after lingering for months …

According to conservative projections, losing their jobs can more than 10 million Russians, mostly residents of the capital and cities, experts say. Can the state cope with the influx of unemployed, which the country has not seen since the 1990-ies, experts argue. Senior researcher of the Laboratory studies of pension …

In Israel, the unemployment rate against the background of the pandemic coronavirus, has exceeded 26%. This was announced by the employment service. According to authorities, left without a job 26,01% of the population. Only 15 April in the country was about 39 thousand people who lost their jobs. All, currently …

The extension of “holidays with pay” will mean the ruin of small enterprises and massive layoffs, ex-Minister of economy of the Russian Federation, doctor of Economics Andrei Nechaev. As stated by the expert to the correspondent of “Rosbalt”, in a more stable situation will remain unless the public sector. “If …

According to the employment service, on 29 March, the total number of job seekers amounted to 922016 people. Thus, unemployment in Israel amounted to 22,15% . Over the weekend on the website service is registered 32577 people. This is three times less than the previous week – then the weekend …