Criticising the Modi government on completion of one year of its 2nd term, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari on May 30 said the GDP growth rate in the country is the lowest today, and the value of Rupee has plunged so much that it has surpassed PM Modi's
At least 1 in 10 Indian jobseeker has confirmed he or she has been laid off and nearly three in 10 jobsekkers fear a layoff is imminent, a new survey by naukri.com revealed on Wednesday.
South Korea registered the largest year-on-year drop in the number of employed people in the country since 1999 due to the effects of the coronavirus epidemic, according to government data published Wednesday.
The coronavirus crisis has sent U.S. unemployment surging to 14.7%, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans that the only thing to fear was fear itself. And because of government errors and the particular way the Labor Department measures the job market, the true picture is even worse
The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, a level last seen during the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record — stark evidence of how the coronavirus has brought the economy to its knees.
More than 3.8 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the U.S. economy slid further into a crisis that is becoming the most devastating since the 1930s.
Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the continued sharp decline in working hours because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the International Labour Organization has said.
The coronavirus pandemic is expected to impact more than 29 lakh jobs in the Indian aviation and dependent industries, global airlines' grouping IATA said on Friday.
Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus, according to new data released Thursday.
Almost 10% of America's total workforce is now unemployed since coronavirus slammed the economy as confirmed cases in the United States continues to rise. At present, US is the most worst-hit country due to coronavirus as positive cases have crossed 450,000-mark while over 16,000 people have died so far.
A staggering 16.8 million Americans lost their jobs in just three weeks, a measure of how fast the coronavirus has brought world economies to their knees.
The Samajwadi Party staged a walkout in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, accusing the BJP government of failing to fulfil its promise of providing jobs to the unemployed.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not talking about the main issue of unemployment and alleged that he was distracting people by talking about other things from Jawaharlal Nehru to Pakistan.
The ILO global report on employment and social trends shows that a lack of decent work, combined with rising unemployment and persisting inequality, makes it increasingly difficult for people to build better lives through their work, Xinhua reported.
One unemployed person committed suicide every hour during 2018 when a total of 1,34,516 suicides were reported in the country
People of India are more concerned about rising inflation and unemployment and not much about the Citizenship Amendment Act, IANS-CVOTER State of the Nation Poll 2020 has found.
Concerns about joblessness is on the rise in India as a new survey has revealed that unemployment is what worries 46 per cent of urban Indians the most.
The basic qualification for the post is that the candidates must know to read and write Tamil and must have passed at least class 10.
The data showed that the unemployment rate in urban areas among males was estimated at 8.7 per cent during January-March 2019 as compared to 9 per cent during April-June 2018.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over "unemployment rate."
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