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Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco Group North America, on February's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report
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Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on November's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report
MELVILLE, N.Y. -- The following is a statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on November's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report which was released today at 8:30 AM ET.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: restaurant job injuries declined in 2006
WASHINGTON -- The number of foodservice workers who missed at least a day of work to recover from on-the-job injuries declined sharply in 2006, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on October's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report
MELVILLE, N.Y. -- The following is a statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on October's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report which was released today at 8:30 AM ET.
Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on September's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report
MELVILLE, N.Y. -- The following is a statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on September's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report which was released today at 8:30 AM ET.
Households in the U.S. spent an average of $5,931 on food in 2005, accounting for 12.8% of their average annual expenditures of $46,409, according to analysis by the Food Institute of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2005 Consumer Expenditure Survey
Households in the U.S. spent an average of $5,931 on food in 2005, accounting for 12.8% (7.1% at-home, 5.7% away-from-home) of their average annual expenditures of $46,409, according to analysis by the Food Institute of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2005 Consumer Expenditure Survey the latest data available. For more...
Employment; The gospel according to the book of jobs.(2007 City Facts)(Brief article)
People are happier when they have jobs. So goes the New York economy. The unemployment rate is lower than it has been in years, and it even compares well with those for other big cities and the nation as a whole. No borough has been left behind...
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Building industry employment up 56,000
The construction industry accounted for about one out of three net new U.S. jobs in March, according to data released Friday by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
New monthly hours and earnings measures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Employment Statistics program
On April 6, the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS began the release of new monthly measures of hours and earnings for March 2006 to January 2007, based on newly collected data from the Current Employment Statistics CES survey. The measures include national estimates for private, non-farm industries of all-employee average...
Workplace injury and illness rate declines.(Front Line)(Bureau of Labor Statistics)(Brief article)
The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses declined significantly in 2005 for most case types, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses declined significantly in 2005 for most case types, according to the Bureau of Labor ...
Manufacturers' Outsourcing To Employment Services
This paper estimates the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services - comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations - on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of panel data on employment by occupation...
Lost-days injuries rate declined in 2005.(Bureau of Labor Statistics report)
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS, the rate of workplace injuries and illnesses that required recuperation away from work in 2005 declined by 4 percent. Although the number of lost-days injuries and illnesses in 2005--1.2 mill ...
Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison: price changes in petroleum products are closely correlated among the three price programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; changes in the BLS petroleum-product CPI also correlate with c
Political events in oil-producing countries, hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and increasing global demand for petroleum products have all contributed to sharp increases in recent years in prices of crude oil and of petroleum products derived from crude oil. From January 2000 to July 2006, the average price for...
Report Raises Questions
Having served as the linchpin for the bond market for the last 20 years, the Nonfarm Payroll report released last month was a shocker, according to Dwight Johnston, VP of economic research at Wescorp. The shock, he said, was the "huge and inexplicable" re Having served as the linchpin for...
Worker fatalities decrease slightly, BLS says.(Bureau of Labor Statistics)
A total of 5,702 fatal work injuries were recorded in the Unites States in 2005, down about one percent from the revised total of 5,764 fatal work injuries recorded in 2004, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest Census of Fatal Occupa A...
Are traditional retirements a thing of the past? new evidence on retirement patterns and bridge jobs.
This article is reprinted by permission of the authors and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This article is part of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Working Paper Series. All views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not This...
Northwest Arkansas' Washington and Benton counties were among the top 100 counties in the nation for fourth-quarter wage growth in 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.(Business Briefs)(wages and salaries)(Brief art
Northwest Arkansas' Washington and Benton counties were among the top 100 counties in the nation for fourth-quarter wage growth in 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Washington Country ranked 80th with an av Northwest Arkansas' Washington and Benton counties were...
"The jobs report for July tells a tale of two construction industries," Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America, said in comments on the Aug. 4 employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that sh
"The jobs report for July tells a tale of two construction industries," Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America, said in comments on the Aug. 4 employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics "The jobs report for July...
The current population survey response to Hurricane Katrina: after assessing employee safety and operations hurdles, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau quickly began collecting new data on hurricane evacuees; jobless rates were sharply l
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, devastating the city of New Orleans and surrounding Louisiana parishes, as well as gulf coast towns in Mississippi. The immediate emergency and the storm's widespread reach and long-lasting devastation presented unprecedented challenges to statistical agencies charged...
The effect of Hurricane Katrina on employment and unemployment: after BLS and its State partners made critical modifications to estimation procedures, local area data show that Hurricane Katrina depressed employment levels sharply in Louisiana and Mississ
The Local Area Unemployment Statistics LAUS) estimates for the month of September 2005 were among the first subnational data to reflect the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the gulf coast on August 29 with catastrophic effects in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Beginning in September and continuing to...
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