The Singapore government is contemplating to regulate employers in the country to allow retirees working beyond 62 years old, which is the mandatory retirement age.
As the country is coping with ageing population, the need for new ways that allows the older folks generating income is becoming critical. The government expects 20% of its citizens to [...]

The demand for IT (information technology) staff in the United Kingdom (UK) has recently been falling faster then ever, a report found out.
The report, entitled Report on Jobs survey, was done collaboratively by KMPG and REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation) and was released yesterday.
KPMG is one of the Big 4 accounting firms well known for [...]

As the days go by, more and more workers in China lose their jobs. Unemployment rate is escalating and the number of worker’s strikes has gone almost beyond control.
Just when the government thinks they have enough problems, here comes another major one - the job prospect for fresh graduates.
In the next one year, millions of [...]

Creative Technology, a Singapore-based manufacturer of computer and music related products, undertook a massive downsizing measure by cutting about half of its workforce before the turn of the New Year.
ZDNetAsia discovered from its 2008 annual report that 2,700 jobs have been cut and that the “axed staff were mainly factory workers from its Malaysia-based manufacturing [...]