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Terre des hommes bows out of Vietnam

This content was published on Dec 21, 2010 The Swiss NGO’s delegate in Hanoi has known Vietnam for 30 years. In 1981 when I first travelled Vietnam from north to south, the country was literally devastated. “Bomb them back to the Stone Age” was the stated intention of General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of staff of the US Air Force from 1961-65. The…

EXHIBITION: At home abroad

This content was published on Dec 21, 2010 An exhibition looks at 500 years of migration in and out of Basel and how people and their cultures influencedthe city. Topics include mobility, refuge, foreign workforce, religion and integration.

Unemployment rises for first time since January

This content was published on Dec 7, 2010 At the end of November, 141,668 people were registered in cantonal placement offices, which is 2,303 more than the previous month. “The minor upstick is nothing to worry about since it is down to seasonal factors,” said analyst Nikola Stephan, from Informa Global Markets. While unemployment increased slightly for the 25-49 age group, it decreased…

Novartis slashes 1,400 jobs in US

This content was published on Dec 1, 2010 The company said it would cut the jobs in its general medicines business, as sales at that business will be hurt after the patent on its high blood pressure drug Diovan expires. Novartis said it planned to focus more resources on its primary care and speciality care businesses. The company expects to take $85 million…

Employment rises, especially in health care

This content was published on Nov 25, 2010 In the past year the number of people with jobs has gone up by one per cent overall, the Statistics Office announced in its third quarter employment report on Thursday. While the secondary sector (production and construction) shows very slight growth at 0.3 per cent, employment in the third sector (administration and services) is up…

Help online for disabled job seekers

This content was published on Nov 24, 2010 The foundation said on Wednesday that it wants to bring employers and job seekers together, and to motivate and encourage disabled people to look for work. The platform, using the slogan “Jobs for the disabled – the disabled for jobs”, provides information and advice, and enables job seekers to register their profiles and search job…

Stonewalling between unions and builders

This content was published on Nov 20, 2010 Meanwhile, the builders maintain that it’s a good deal compared with the wages earned by other craftsmen, not to mention inflation and the “miserable” profit situation. A seemingly insurmountable 1.7 percentage points lie between the builders’ offer and the demands of the unions, who are calling for a additional SFr150 ($151) per month. With an…

Switzerland faces a lack of IT professionals

This content was published on Nov 20, 2010 Two studies commissioned by the training association ICT Switzerland (ICTS) show that there is a desperate need for new talent in the field of ICT. According to ICTS, there will be 32,000 vacant ICT jobs in 2017. This is despite the fact that the industry accounts for five per cent of gross domestic product, or…

Retired should get bigger pension, say unions

This content was published on Nov 6, 2010 At the end of its two-day meeting in Bern on Saturday, delegates voted in favour of the state pension “plus” plan as well as to better protect the jobs of active union members. Currently, residents of Switzerland can expect to receive up to 60 per cent of their salary from the state pension scheme upon…

Fewer “working poor” registered

This content was published on Nov 4, 2010 According to the latest figures from the Federal Statistics Office, the rate dropped from 4.8 to 3.8 per cent of the working population from 2007 to 2008. “This development is attributable to positive economic growth and a sharp decrease in unemployment in the years 2006 to 2008,” the Statistics Office office said in a statement…

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