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South Korea’s jobless rate rose slightly in September due to a fall in employment in the retail and restaurant sectors, with poorer-than-expected job creation continuing, government data showed Friday. The unemployment rate stood at 3.6 percent last month, up…
Amazon is creating an additional 2,000 technology jobs in fields such as machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering, as it looks to ramp up its Alexa offering. The new jobs will be based in the company’s Boston technology hub,…
Korea’s labor market is undergoing a major change, dogged by a lack of quality and secure jobs. Coupled with rising living costs and longer life spans, these problems prompt more Koreans across a broader range of age groups in particular the elder to enter…
Danish toy maker Lego will cut 1400 jobs, or about eight per cent of its global workforce, after reporting a rare decline in sales and profits in the first half of 2017. Revenue dropped five per cent to 14.9 billion kroner (A$3 billion) in the first six…
Samsung plans to invest $380 million and hire nearly 1,000 workers for a new plant in South Carolina to manufacture home appliances, the company announced Wednesday. Samsung Electronics America described it as a “state of the art” facility that starting next…
Discussions for the annual wage increase have started, and as expected, the business group at the table, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has come in with a relatively low offer of 5 percent for 2018. That would be down from the 7.3 percent hike…
Sports apparel and footwear giant Nike will cut about 1,400 jobs, part of a plan to expand direct selling to consumers as e-commerce roils the retail sector, the company announced Thursday. Nike said it would cut about two percent of its global workforce as…
Most recruiters in Vietnam are thirsty for candidates to fill managerial and junior positions. Seven out of 10 employers in Vietnam are planning to recruit more staff in 2017, much higher than the regional average, according a market survey recently published…
It seems like a win-win situation for Japanese companies looking for skilled employees in Vietnam. The number of Vietnamese studying in Japan grew more than 12-fold from 2010-2016 to around 54,000. They now account for nearly a quarter of international…
The Swedish fashion giant Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) is preparing for its Vietnam debut this year. The Swedish low-cost clothing outlet, H&M, announced it would open a store in Vietnam this year, making it the fourth fast fashion label to enter Vietnam after…
The recruitment fairs will be held in the following cities: Manila (Cebu Pacific Building, Pasay City) on January 14; Dumaguete City (La Residencia Almar Hotel, Rizal Blvd., Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental) on January 28; and Tagbilaran City (Metro Centre…
Cebu Pacific, the country’s largest carrier, said Thursday it would recruit up to 300 new cabin crew as it expands its operations. Cebu Pacific will hold recruitment fairs in Manila, Tagbilaran, and Dumaguete this month to grow its workforce of 4,000, the…
A challenging employment outlook persists into the first three months of 2017 (Q1) as Singapore’s net employment outlook stands at a modest +9%, after the data is adjusted for seasonal variation. Of the 620 employers surveyed in the latest ManpowerGroup…
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) have issued a joint statement, that a cooperation project being built in Central Java is estimated to create 4,000 jobs. Prime Minister Lee and President Jokowi issued the joint…
Cisco has revealed plans to cut up to 5,500 jobs after reporting flat revenue for its full financial year a 2% decline in revenue for the fourth quarter. The networking vendor said it will restructure to cut costs in lower growth areas, and allow it to focus…
Toyota Motor Corp’s Thai unit has launched a voluntary redundancy program aimed at cutting around 800 subcontractors in Thailand due to economic problems in the southeast Asian country and abroad. Thailand’s economic slowdown, along with uncertainty over the…
