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Rising competition from China creates employment problems, according to the ECB

According to a recent study by the European Central Bank (ECB), trade tensions with the US, leading China to export more to the Eurozone, may cause problems. This could lead to fewer job opportunities for Europeans and increased unemployment. The study, by ECB senior economists Clémence Berson, Claudia Foroni, Vanessa Gunnella and Laura...

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Business

Gap expands its job program for disadvantaged youth to 53 cities worldwide

Gap Inc has announced plans to expand “This Way Ahead”, an on-the-job training program aimed at 16 to 24 year-olds from low-income households. The company aims to extend the program from 15 to 53 cities in the US, Canada, Japan and UK, until the end of the year. Launched in 2017, the initiative is part of Gap’s plans to make its workforce more...

Retail

Concerns grow for the retail employment market

The British Retail Consortium has stated that it is concerned for the retail employment market after new figures show that the equivalent number of full-time jobs in retail fell by 0.9 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the same period last year. The data released by the British Retail Consortium and business law firm Bond...

Design

Retail staff on zero-hour contracts

The media has been rife this week with reports of British workers employed on zero-hour contracts. Whilst it has predominantly been said that the service industry employs staff on a zero-hour guarantee, so too the retail and fashion industry have many employees on these contracts. Sports Direct, for example, has 90 percent of its staff -...