Buenos Aires, (NNN-EFE) : President Mauricio Macri expressed concern that Argentina's employment rate "barely exceeds" 40 percent" and criticized previous administrations for creating 750,000 government jobs to hide what he said was its inability to grow the economy....
New Delhi/Jeddah, (IANS) : Indian workers in Saudi Arabia retrenched by three Saudi companies have only two options left -- either to return to India or to relocate to a different company in the Gulf kingdom. Explaining the situation faced by the retrenched Indian...
By Irfan Mohammed, Jeddah, (IANS) : In a ray of hope for hundreds of distressed Indians and workers of other nationalities rendered jobless, Saudi Arabian King Salman has issued a series of directives to address their problems, and also earmarked Saudi Riyal 100...
By Irfan Mohammed, Jeddah, (IANS) : All Indian workers rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia due to the closure of a leading construction company will be able to receive their pending arrears, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh assured the distressed workers...
By Francis Kokutse, Accra, (IANS) : As unemployment rates among Ghana's university graduates rise alarmingly, an Indian businessman here has stepped forward with an offer to train young professionals -- and possibly give them jobs. The offer, by Mukesh Thakwani, owner...
New Delhi, (IANS) : The government is making all efforts to bring back the 10,000 Indian workers rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia and is also providing them food in camps, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said in the Lok Sabha on Monday. She also said that...
New Delhi, July 30 : Hundreds of Indians in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been rendered jobless and their salaries not paid after factories were shut down. India is arranging for food packets for over 800 of these workers who have been starving for the past three days...
Pretoria, (NNN-SA NEWS) : Employment in South Africa declined in the second quarter of 2016 by 129,000 to 15.5 million, according to Statistics South Africa. “A total 15.5 million people are working in South Africa and unemployment has tipped just a little bit by 0.1...
RIYADH: An employer does not have the right to retain the passport of his expat employee without the employee’s consent, Khalid Aba Al-Khail, spokesman for the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, said. However, if the expat worker wishes the employer to keep his...
New Delhi: Alam and his family was very happy after he got a job visa (carpenter) for Saudi Arabia as his dream for ‘better future’ was about to realize. Even his agent booked a flight for him, but now his dream seems to be going to shatter due to inexplicable delay...