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http://www.spectroscopymag.com/ spectroscopy are up and job satisfaction is good. The not-so-good news: Although salaries for male spectroscopists grew significantly, earnings for females actually fell slightly, and the disparity between average earnings for the two groups rose to $17,750. · The majority (57.9%) of private industry positions held by survey respondents lies in just two of five geographical regions: 34.3% of jobs in this sector exist in Mid-west--Great Lakes states and 23.6% are in the Northeast--Middle Atlantic region. · Of those holding a doctorate as their highest degree earned, most specialize in applied research and development (39.0%), teaching and education (20.8%), or pure research (15.7%). REP-EUemplsocpol-2000 The European Employment Strategy, launched in 1997, is firmly under way, with the ambitious aim of providing European citizens with more and better jobs. Across the EU, employment and social policy reflect the conviction that we need strong competition between companies to improve productivity and growth, but that we also need strong solidarity between citizens to improve the conditions which generate a cohesive and inclusive society. The European Commission's White Paper Growth, competitiveness, employment provoked intense discussion from 1993 onwards on how the EU could ensure sustainable jobs and better opportunities for disadvantaged jobseekers. At the 1997 Luxembourg summit, the European Heads of State or Government adopted the first ever set of 'employment guidelines', with the aim of developing a more active labour market policy than in the past. Employment developmental disabilities, provider, employment, community, staff, attitude, life. People with developmental disabilities are no exception. Work is a source of income, resources, productivity, relationships, respect, personal achievement and a sense of accomplishment. Work also can provide opportunities for housing, education, recreation, community participation, and the opportunity to engage in life activities. For society, the benefits of work include increased tax revenue, increased productivity, and healthier communities. National efforts mirror the increased emphasis placed on employment for all persons regardless of disability. Promote staff training on the benefits and importance of work for consumers; and Become better advocates for people to find and maintain meaningful employment. People who work for the provider are there to help you with services you want and need. youth2002city youth, school, career, work experience, employment, Pittsburgh, skills. City of Pittsburgh Residents supported by City of Pittsburgh and YouthWorks Inc. Urban Interview is an after school youth computer program where work experience and hands -on training provide youth with the ability to publish a teen magazine while learning about aspects of an arts-based career and the necessary preparation. For residents of Bedford Dwellings or Hill District The program will assist at-risk youth in graduating from high school through mentoring and parent-teacher intervention by teaching skills in conflict resolution, mediation, home visits, crisis intervention, suspension mediation. This program provides a range of customized coordinated services including education, training, placement and retention, support and follow up to help out of school youths overcome barriers to employment leading to permanent employment and careers. TenYearEmploy employment, responses, BSW, practice, graduates, trends, permanent. Feb. 2001 Background: (Note: the highlights are presented in summary form at end of this document.) Since 1990, the Faculty of Social Work has surveyed the employment patterns of graduates. Table I was generated by examination of all responses to the variables employing agency and job title and then categorized into a setting. Note: The listings in Table I -- III are rank order according totals. The large majority of our graduates are working in line positions, particularly if case management is considered a line position. However, as expected, more MSW grads (31%) are working in managerial/program coordinator/supervisory positions than BSW (about 12%) grads. emplplan employment, employment plan, ministry, assistance, clients, Client Employability Profile, job readiness. Your answers to the questions are scored and the score determines your job readiness. Clients are expected to find work as quickly as possible. Means you have circumstances that prevent you from working at this time and you are excused from seeking work as per the Employment and Assistance legislation. The higher the score, the greater the likelihood you will be required to complete the profile. Visit the ministry's web site at www.mhr.gov.bc.ca. The Ministry expects that employable individuals applying for or receiving Employment and Assistance will look for work and find work as quickly as possible. > Activities you will carry out to find work; and,> The ministry's expectations for your active participation. employment Africans, employment, workers, sector, labour market, poverty, education. Access to quality employment is an essential avenue for achieving sustainable liveliehoods. This is reflected in the low labour force participation rates of poor people and the quality of jobs which they occupy. Both are individual rather than household poverty lines and therefore reveal whether the earnings of an individual from selfemployment are sufficient to support that individual at a level above poverty. Using the narrow definition of unemployment, (i.e., the number of of people who are not working and actively looking for work divided by all employed and those actively looking for work) oscillated between 13% and 20% in three recent three household surveys. emptrendhttp://www.opm.gov/feddata/demograp/emptrend.pdf workers, employment, workforce, decline, jobs, Occupation, disability. Major reductions by agency were: the Department of Defense, down by 39,633 workers to 669,442; the Department of Veterans Affairs, down by 21,203 workers to 219,301; the Department of Transportation, down 1,265 workers to 63,577; the Department of Agriculture, down 981 workers to 106,708; and the Department of Energy, down 394 workers to 15,754. Since September 30, 1998 and September 30, 2000, the white-collar workforce decreased by 31,160 workers to 1,532,484, as its relative percentage of the total white-collar and bluecollar workforce rose from 86.7 percent to 87.3 percent. Hispanic employment experienced the smallest decline in the Federal civilian workforce, down by 298 workers. 15 trial standard, employment, energy, jobs, water heaters, economy, standard level. Net national employment impacts from water heater efficiency standards are defined as net jobs created or eliminated in the general economy as a consequence of: (1) reduced spending by end users on energy (electricity, gas, oil, and LPG); (2) reduced spending on new investment or capacity by energy companies; (3) increased spending on the purchase of new water heaters; (4) increased spending on the installation of new water heaters; and (5) the associated indirect effects of those four factors throughout the national economy. These trial standard levels are discussed in greater detail in the analyses of Shipments (Chapter 11) and National Energy Impacts (Chapter 12). benchmarking benchmarking, costs, jobs, retention, placement, cohort, enrollment. Welfare reform can still be said to be in the experimental stage and workforce organizations are experimenting with new approaches for different target populations. Last year, The Annie E. Casey Foundation contracted with Abt Associates Inc. to conduct a 12-month study of employment programs in the Foundation-funded Jobs Initiative as well as a few innovative employment programs that are not in the Jobs Initiative. Of those for whom sufficient time had passed for placement to occur, (meaning they were "eligible" for placement") 63% were placed in jobs. Average costs were calculated for specific activities per successful completion by a single program participant. colocesnov02http://www.coworkforce.com/lmi/CES/colocesnov02.pdf jobs, employment, annual growth, annual growth rate, industry, Retail Trade, decline. While losses were spread throughout the industries, Construction and Services accounted for most of the decline in employment, losing 2,500 and 2,100 jobs, respectively. Government and Retail Trade were the only industries to add jobs over the month; combined, they added 1,900 workers to November payrolls. The new mall accounted for approximately 35% of the unadjusted increase, adding 2,800 jobs to the industry. Even with Colorado's over-the-month decline in total nonagricultural employment, the annual growth rate continued to improve for the fourth straight month, climbing from --1.7% in October to --1.6% in November. The entire loss came from Durable Goods, which reduced payrolls by 1,300 positions. dallas employment, job retention, assistance, mentoring, community, Texas, transportation. This summary highlights the main points from the workshop presentations and subsequent discussions from one of the many topics addressed: barriers to employment. Welfare recipients returning to the workforce should understand that the first job they accept is not necessarily the one they would keep. Image Enterprises (IE) will provide services to no fewer than 156 Choices participants who have entered employment after exposure to the Work First model in the Galveston area. VOA will administer the program for Choices clients who have been offered employment but cannot accept it, or are in danger of losing employment due to lack of transportation. iu4-01http://www.usaid.gov/pubs/ads/400/updates/iu4-01.pdf employee, procurement, senior, contractor, officer, government, participating. "Senior Employees" in AID include all officers appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and any other officer or employee whose base pay is at or above Level V of the Executive Schedule (currently $108,200), including members of the Senior Executive Service (SES employees at ES-5 and ES-6 levels) and the Senior Foreign Service (SFS employees at the Minister Counselor (level 5) and Career Minister ranks), as well as Administratively Determined Employees (AD's) or any other employee appointed, assigned or detailed to a position paid at or above Level V of the Executive Schedule. CJ-EmploymentBarriers0402http://www.cjforum.org/PaperWorks/CJ-EmploymentBarriers0402.pdf barriers, employment, Community Jobs, practitioners, welfare, Washington State, mental health. In 161 over the phone interviews, CJ practitioners were asked to identify and describe barriers to employment faced by a randomly selected member of their caseload with whom they had at least two months of contact. The 150-question survey covered 25 specific barriers including employment history, health and mental health issues, education level and housing. Shifts in demographics, including changes in the prevalence of certain barriers to employment among CJ enrollees should be measured and monitored with a comprehensive data collection or MIS system. I am very grateful to the Community Jobs practitioners across the state of Washington who gave generously of their precious time and energy to provide us with the information necessary to compile this report. es3 age, mothers, employment, parent, labor force, Hispanics, race/ethnicity. Over the last three decades there has been a rise in the proportion of single parent families, and in the proportion of mothers who work regardless of marital status.17 These factors have acted to reduce the percent of children who have a parent at home full time. Children under age 6 experienced larger increases than those ages 6-17 in this indicator from 1980 to 1994. The child care needs of American families have been increasing over the past several decades as mothers have moved into the labor force in ever greater numbers. Data for 1991 indicate that, for children whose mothers work full time, the most common forms of child care used were day care and preschool facilities (28 percent) followed by non-relative care in the provider's home (21 percent). | |
