UNEMPLOYMENT

End of subsidies could trigger unemployment in United Kingdom

Published on: July 1, 2021
17:15

London, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) Unions and employers have urged the British government to maintain the wage support for private sector workers that was implemented at the beginning of Covid-19 to avoid an increase in unemployment.

Italy records 10.5 percent unemployment in May 2021

Published on: July 1, 2021
09:36

Rome, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) Italy's unemployment rate fell from 10.6 percent in April 2021 to 10.5 in May, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) informed on Thursday.

Federal Reserve officials project rate increases in 2023

Published on: June 17, 2021
07:26

Washington, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) US Federal Reserve (FED) officials on Wednesday raised its forecasts for the country's economic growth, while leaving the unemployment rate and interest rates unchanged, despite domestic inflation rose.

Uruguay: 80,000 workers on unemployment insurance

Published on: June 16, 2021
11:55

Montevideo, Jun 16 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayans on unemployment insurance totaled 80,000, as published by the Social Security and Work Ministry on its digital portal on Wednesday.

International Organizations call to recover labor market

Published on: June 15, 2021
07:20

Santiago de Chile, Jun 15 (Prensa Latina) International bodies on Monday warned about slow recovery of labor market in Latin America and the Caribbean, hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).

US jobless claims fall below 400,000 while private payrolls spike

Published on: June 5, 2021
03:00

Washington, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) The number of US citizens filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped below 400,000 last week for the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak more than a year ago, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) reported.

Negotiation over protests in Colombia remains stalled

Published on: May 28, 2021
10:41

Bogotá, May 28 (Prensa Latina) The National Strike Committee today blamed the Government of Iván Duque for the stagnation in negotiations of the emergency document due to its delay in signing the preliminary agreement on Colombia's social protest in Colombia.

Fewer unemployment application assistance in US

Published on: May 14, 2021
08:24

Washington, May 13 (Prensa Latina) Unemployment assistance applications dropped 473,000 past week, lowest figure since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Labor Department reported.

OECD unemployment rate fell to 6.5% in March

Published on: May 11, 2021
08:22

Brussels, May 11 (Prensa Latina) The unemployment rate in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries declined to 6.5% in March, as the global economic outlook improved amid the vaccination drive.

US unemployment benefit claims drop to lowest level in over a year

Published on: April 16, 2021
08:42

Washington, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) US unemployment compensation claims dropped last week to their lowest level in more than a year, the Labor Department reported Thursday, a significant sign that the world's largest economy is advancing sharply as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

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