by admin | May 25, 2021 | Employment, Overseas, World
Vienna : The unemployment rate in Austria declined 4.6 per cent year-on-year for October, the Social Affairs Ministry said.
This equates to 393,029 people in the country presently registered as jobless, Xinhua news agency reported.
The number of non-self-employed persons increased by 65,000 compared to October of last year, the ministry report on Thursday stated, while the number of available job positions at the Public Employment Service (AMS) is currently over 59,000, a 44.5 per cent year-on-year increase.
The unemployment drop was seen across all states in the country other than Vorarlberg, where a slight 0.3 per cent increase was recorded.
Also notable in the new figures was a 0.7 per cent decline in unemployment for persons aged 50 and over.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Employment, Entrepreneurship, Private Jobs, Social Entrepreneur, Women Entrepreneur
For representational purpose only
By Mudita Girotra,
Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) : For Nirmala Maurya, 32, running and managing the home became tedious and she began a different life swimming against the social current. For Nirmala, from Arjunpur Pathak village, her journey of self-reliance and financial independence began in 2010 when she was approached by Rangsutra, a community-owned craft company of over a thousand artisans from remote regions of India which boasts of “ensuring sustainable livelihoods and regular employment for rural artisans”.
The company leverages the growing handicraft businesses to reduce poverty and to empower women by making them financially independent.
In several villages near Mirzapur, many women like Nirmala – with or without their family’s support – made the same attempt to break the deadlock and joined the organisation.
“It was a huge battle against the taboo,” Nirmala told IANS.
She said her husband, against her wishes, wanted her to shift with him to Kohlapur, where he works.
“For the one week training programme that Rangsutra held in Jaunpur, I wasn’t given permission by my parents-in-law…I had to go to my mother’s house in Benaras where I left my kids and went on to get trained,” she said.
It took time to win the family’s support but, Nirmala says, people in the village still have objections. “They keep saying all kinds of things, they joke about it but I don’t care about anything they feel or say as long as my job makes me happy,” she said.
“Many of them can’t even educate their kids but I have been successful in sending all my three daughters to school.”
Now, she has started to save money to build a proper house and to get rid of the mud house that she and her family have been staying in.
She is one of hundreds of women in Uttar Pradesh who, for the past five years, have been making textile products for IKEA, the Swedish-founded, Netherlands-headquartered furniture and home appliances’ giant.
Through Rangsutra, around 600 women now work with IKEA, which still does not have a retail presence in India but is expected to open soon.
“Since 2012 IKEA, has been forming partnerships with social entrepreneurs around the world. The social entrepreneurs IKEA works with gain access to a global marketplace, giving them a strong foundation for self-sufficiency and independence,” said Vaishali Mishra, Global Leader, Social Entrepreneur Initiatives, IKEA.
“These partnerships are a new way to make business where everyone wins. The social entrepreneurs gain access to a global marketplace and are able to provide the artisans with a job on their own terms, helping them stay in their village and at the same time provide for their families,” she added.
Mishra said that across the years, she has seen lives change.
“I remember the same women were so shy and withdrawn initially. They would not come out in the open without their ghunghats on,” she said. “Today, you see them confidently taking up the job, feeling responsible and confident” about being able to make a financial contribution to the family, she stressed.
Radhika Vishwakarma, 22, had a tough time convincing her mother-in-law, who finally snapped: “Do whatever you want!”
“I felt, all right, she has given her permission,” she laughed.
With little dreams for themselves and big ones for their children, every morning many of these women hail a ride on auto-rickshaws and bicycles to the IKEA workshop here in Mirzapur.
One of them, very humbly, said: “I want my daughter to grow up and become a pilot.”
The workshop has some inspiring, and some very heart-touching stories about women with calibre, women with confidence and about women who dream to become big and move beyond the social barriers.
But then, everybody’s tale is not the same. There were also those whose husbands and parents-in-law were more than ready to let them work.
“Acha hai apne bacho ke liye do-chaar paise kama leti hai. Ghar pe bethe bethe bhi kya karna waise (Nice, she earns for her kids. What’s the point of sitting idle at home, anyway?)” questioned 65-year-old Munni Devi, mother-in-law of Rangsutra employee Rekha.
Her father-in-law Radhe Shyam added: “Zamana badal gaya hai…ab sab pehle se alag aur behtar hai. Kaahe nahi jaegi Rekha kaam karne (Times have changed…it is different and better than before. Why shouldn’t Rekha go to work?)”
“The money I earn, I confidently spend on myself without asking my husband for any support,” said 28-year-old Rekha, who now has around 20 women working under her.
“This independence feels good.”
(Mudita Girotra’s visit to Mirzapur was at the invitation of IKEA. She can be contacted atmudita.g@ians.in)
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Government Jobs, Private Jobs
Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti
New Delhi : Days after naming former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma as its interlocutor for talks in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre on Thursday said it will expedite development projects to generate more jobs in the troubled-state where some 10 lakh men and women are unemployed.
The decision was taken at a meeting between Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti here.
“It has been decided to fast track projects under Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP) by making encumbrance free land available for the infrastructure projects including road, power and health,” a Home Ministry statement said.
The two leaders also decided to “accelerate the development projects relating to additional jobs to Kashmiri migrants, transit accommodations, transfer of cash relief or honorarium through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode and provide employment to youth of the state”, the statement said.
Sixty-three major development projects have been approved in the state under the Rs 80,068-crore package. Of this, Rs 22,042 crore have been released, according to the statement.
Jammu and Kashmir is one of the states with highest unemployment rate in the country. According to government records, some educated 600,000 men and women have registered for work with employment centres.
However, according to estimates, the actual number of unemployed youth is close to 10 lakh because not all educated youth register themselves and the figure with employment centres doesn’t include those who have not passed Class 10.
The Thursday meeting which began around 11 a.m. and went on for an hour and a half was Mehbooba Mufti’s first with Rajnath Singh after the government on Tuesday said Sharma will have a “sustained” dialogue with “all stakeholders” to solve the problems in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Chief Minister arrived here in the morning along with a team of state government officers, including Chief Secretary B.B. Vyas.
The meeting was also attended by the Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir and Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba.
The statement said the government decided to lay “special emphasis” for development of border areas while selecting projects under the Border Area Development Program (BADP).
“It was decided that to ensure safety of the people in border areas, construction of bunkers along the borders will be expedited.”
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Employment, Overseas, World
Houston : Job hiring will increase 19 per cent in 2018 in the US, helping recent college graduates find employment, said a survey.
According to the Recruiting Trends survey conducted by Michigan State University, the information services industry will see the biggest increase in hiring in 2018, Xinhua reported.
The survey published by local media on Wednesday showed there will be a 15 per cent increase in hiring for bachelor’s degree holders and a 40 per cent increase in hiring for associate’s degree holders.
Those jobs aren’t concentrated on a particular major. Instead, there were more employers saying they were seeking college graduates from any major.
Recruiting Trends, the largest annual survey of employers in the US, relies on information from 3,370 employers from every state.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Government Jobs, Private Jobs
Chandigarh : The Punjab government has instructed all government departments/state-run undertakings and private organisations/businesses to notify every vacancy to the Employment Generation and Training Department, official sources said on Tuesday.
“This has been done to boost employment opportunities,” a government spokesperson said here.
He said as per Compulsory Notification of Vacancies Act of 1959, it was mandatory for all government/private establishments to notify such vacancies to Employment Exchanges across the state.
He said this practice was not followed religiously and most vacancies not notified to the employment exchanges.
“A Supreme Court judgment of 1996 made it compulsory for every vacancy to be simultaneously advertised in newspapers and notified to Employment Exchanges. Most employers began advertising in the print media, but stopped notifying the Employment Exchanges.
“Therefore, the state government has instructed all establishments in the government and private sectors to share information/advertisements of all jobs/vacancies in departments/organisations (contractual/outsourcing/regular) with the Joint Director in the office of Director, Employment Generation and Training.”
—IANS
