Jesse at Jesse's Cafe Americain has a 6 November 2009 post about job loss statistics. Enjoy. Here's a link: [jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com]. [...] edited by: Tracy Coenen,
Accounting Editor
Jesse at Jesse's Cafe Americain has a 6 November 2009 post about job loss statistics. Enjoy. Here's a link: [jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com]. [...] From Bloomberg.com:
Residential construction in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in October amid concern a homebuyer tax credit would expire, illustrating the market’s dependence on government help to sustain a recovery as job losses mount.
Builders broke ground on 529,000 houses at an annual pace, down 11 percent [...]
$50 billion in federal subsidies isn't enough for Government General Motors. Michigan is now throwing in another $2.6 million to keep the world's largest manufacturing zombie from from moving jobs from Downtown Detroit to... "other Detroit-area facilities." GM will happily take the money, but may' [...]
Hot on the heels of the PwC discussion regarding people getting "packaged off", comes another eye-opening post - this courtesy of Going Concern, which discusses layoffs at Ernst & Young.
The post primarily concerns the E&Y offices in the USA, though there's a growing thread of commentary [...]
Earlier this year, the Campaign against Climate Change (CaCC) trade union group set up a commission to produce a detailed plan for a million ‘climate’ jobs.
The commission includes academics and environmental groups as well as several unions including PCS.
In November 2009 the CaCC trade union group published a pamphlet, One [...]
In my first job in journalism, back on a small-town newspaper, the last critical deadline risk was a break-down of our creaky old press. Now it's that the elves of the internet somehow got Monday's post out via Twitter and my news groups, but failed to feed it to e-mail [...]
Although the real estate industry is showing signs of improvement, high unemployment is still troubling this country. According to new reports, the number of job seekers outnumbers the number of job openings by six to one. These statistics come from the recent Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey from the [...]
FT.com / Companies / Financial Services - Walker tempers view on non-executives.
Sir David Walker will temper his demand that banks’ non-executive directors must all spend the equivalent of a month a year on the job. This follows heavy lobbying from banks and investors.
Sir David, who is due later this [...]
In a meeting with economic advisers on Monday, President Barack Obama stated that there would indeed be more job losses in the next few months. However, he claimed that this does not mean the economy is not recovering. There is “always a lag of several months between businesses starting to [...]
Last week, the Government Accountability Office published a report asserting that the IRS needs to do a better job of managing the tax debt collection process. I have included a segment of their report below, but you can download the full PDF at “Tax Debt Collection: IRS Needs to [...]
The GAO says the IRS doesn't do a very good job of issuing collection notices and following up on them:
We found that collection officials lacked information to know what the notice-phase business rules are and how the rules operate. In some cases, the officials either did not know' [...]
Much as expected, the Foot report into the Crown Dependencies and the Overseas Territories is disappointing. Appoint the wrong man to do the job – and Michael Foot was always the wrong man to do this job – and he has even defected to the Tories whilst undertaking [...]
An example of "what's it like to be a senior staff" writing seems in order, after all the drama of the nasty early fall combined recruiting, layoff and UFE exam analysis season.
The thought of explaining what it's like to run jobs with eager young staff ready to assist you came [...]
