Job alert - - Devro boards inflation-busting pay rises awarded as jobs axed

Devro boards inflation-busting pay rises awarded as jobs axed
The Herald - Apr 11 6:08 PM
Sausage skin-maker Devro's executive directors were awarded above-inflation pay rises last year ahead of a jobs cull at the firm's headquarters. The Lanarkshire company's annual report also shows that Devro paid out more than 1m in redundancy payments in January 2006.Save to My Web

Asia needs to move from rapid economic growth to creating good jobs: ADB
AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 11 8:15 AM
With nearly half its workforce underemployed or unemployed, the development debate in Asia is shifting from obsessive concerns over rapid economic growth to creating "productive" employment, the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said.Save to My Web

Jobs axed as salad factory shuts
BBC News - Apr 11 9:06 AM
250 jobs are lost in West Norfolk as Del Monte UK announces it is closing its frozen food factory.Save to My Web

Latino Rights Marchers To Keep Jobs
Channel 3000 - Apr 11 5:07 PM
MADISON, Wis. -- The 30 people who lost their jobs after participating in Monday's Latino rights march will not be fired. Their goal was to show how much they mean to their local communities and in the process show their opposition to proposed immigration laws.Save to My Web

100,000 jobs will vanish in health reforms, says thinktank
Guardian Unlimited - 55 minutes ago
At least 100,000 NHS employees will lose their jobs if the government carries through the health reforms Tony Blair wants as a lasting monument to his premiership, according to a report today from the pro-market thinktank Reform.Save to My Web

Johnson Controls cutting about 300 jobs in Holland
WOOD TV 8 - Apr 11 10:39 AM
HOLLAND, Mich. Auto parts maker Johnson Controls is cutting about 300 jobs at its Holland operations. The company says it's cutting administrative,...Save to My Web

French Protests Dwindle After Retreat on Jobs
Washington Post - Apr 11 8:22 PM
PARIS, April 11 -- Several thousand demonstrators turned out on the streets of Paris and other French cities Tuesday to keep pressure on the government as it considers new labor measures. The turnout was a fraction of the millions of students and workers at rallies in recent weeks. Save to My Web