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  • Unemployment and supply of homes are correlating higher, layoffs soar 410% in February, with inventory showing a 24% increase, the highest in years.

    03/26/2024 10:56:22 AM PDT · by davikkm · 12 replies
    The real estate rollercoaster is hitting some unexpected twists and turns, with February delivering a double whammy of unsettling news. Brace yourselves: layoffs have skyrocketed a jaw-dropping 410% compared to last year, hitting levels not seen since the gloomy days of 2009. And guess what? The housing market is feeling the aftershocks big time. Picture this: home inventory levels have ballooned by 24% from this time last year, painting a landscape flooded with “For Sale” signs. But hold on, it gets wilder. The Sunbelt, known for its sunny skies and hot markets, is now facing a deluge of available properties,...
  • Return-to-office mandates can’t fix stagnant post-COVID worker productivity

    03/25/2024 8:52:11 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 52 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/25/2024 | GLEB TSIPURSKY
    More than two-thirds of managers report that they’re under immense pressure to squeeze more out of their workers, according to a recent Slack survey of 18,000 knowledge workers. Amid major concerns about stagnant or declining worker productivity in the post-COVID era, one would think government and corporate leaders might ask whether they themselves aren’t the ones doing something wrong. One thing many of them ignore to their own disadvantage is the extensive evidence that flexible hybrid work is more productive than forced in-office work for the same roles. For example, according to the annual report by the Office of Personnel...
  • Dwindling immigration puts squeeze on home building

    03/24/2024 8:55:48 AM PDT · by 4Runner · 47 replies
    NBC News ^ | May 11, 2023 | Jasmine Cui
    Foreign-born people make up almost a third of construction workers in the U.S. But their numbers have dropped in recent years, making it tougher for contractors to find workers. New home construction is key to unlocking lower housing prices. But the rate of this type of construction has fallen month to month since March 2022, and experts say tough immigration policies that have shrunk the construction workforce are behind the building squeeze. Lower immigration was a policy goal of the Trump White House, and the administration issued several policies toward that goal from 2017 to 2021, including freezing visas. The...
  • Gen Z Is Toxic for Companies, Employers Believe

    03/23/2024 6:42:17 PM PDT · by Drew68 · 118 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 03/23/2024 | Suzanne Blake
    Companies are struggling to operate as Gen Z enters the workforce at higher rates, and a growing majority of employers say the younger generation is toxic for their business. That's the latest from a new Freedom Economy Index report conducted by PublicSquare and RedBalloon this month. In the survey, 68 percent of small business owners said Gen Zers were the "least reliable" of all their employees. And 71 percent said these younger workers were the most likely to have a workplace mental health issue. One of the surveyed employers spoke of Gen Z's "absolute delusion, complete lack of common sense,...
  • 🚨Announcement. I’m Furious and Disgusted. I’m throwing away all my Chicken from Tyson Foods.

    03/22/2024 7:51:14 PM PDT · by Morgana · 48 replies
    Terrence K Williams ^ | March 22, 2024 | Terrence K Williams
    Terrence reads the riot act on Tyson Chicken and foods.
  • Glassdoor meltdown as users urged to flee site after posters’ real names added without permission

    03/20/2024 12:01:12 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/20/2024 | Ariel Zilber
    Glassdoor, the website that allows workers to anonymously complain about their workplaces without fear of retribution, is reportedly revealing staffers’ real names in their profiles — prompting a viral backlash over fears that their identities could be exposed. The shift began last July when the site added social features integrated from Fishbowl, an app for work-related discussions that Glassdoor’s parent company, Recruit, acquired in 2021. Signing up for an account on Glassdoor required workers to reveal their full name, job title and employer — a departure from its previous practice of just requiring email addresses but no names, according to...
  • EXCLUSIVE Multimillion dollar fund manager ditches Tyson Foods, saying meat giant sacking US workers to hire 42,000 asylum seekers is the 'woke liberal takeover of America'

    03/20/2024 7:52:17 AM PDT · by libstripper · 37 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Mar/ 20, 2024 | James Reinl
    EXCLUSIVE Multimillion dollar fund manager ditches Tyson Foods, saying meat giant sacking US workers to hire 42,000 asylum seekers is the 'woke liberal takeover of America' A conservative fund manager has pulled investments from Tyson Foods, saying the meat and poultry giant has alienated its consumers by laying off Americans workers and hiring 42,000 asylum seekers. Bill Flaig, CEO and co-founder of the $79 million American Conservative Values Fund (ACVF), told DailyMail.com that he has divested from Tyson and won't buy any more stock in the company. Angry consumers are boycotting Tyson over revelations that the company is shuttering plants...
  • Job Boards Are Still Rife With 'Ghost Jobs'. What's the Point?

    03/19/2024 9:12:12 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 41 replies
    BBC ^ | AJ Dellinger, | 3/19
    Employers are posting seemingly open roles that were never meant to be filled at all. The labour market is tightening – and it's getting harder to find a job. In the wake of the Great Resignation, which drove more job vacancies than employers could fill, workers often had their pick of open roles. Now, they have largely lost their leverage among layoffs and budget cuts, and those open positions are increasingly rare. Still, roles do exist – or at least appear to. Job boards like LinkedIn and Indeed continue to advertise open positions, and workers are actively submitting applications. Yet...
  • 10,000 foreign workers to arrive by June to save construction industry

    03/17/2024 6:28:29 AM PDT · by Texan4Life · 25 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | 17 March 2024 | Yosi Dayan
    By the end of June, more than 10,000 foreign workers from India will be employed in Israel, and at the same time, the process of absorbing about 10,000 foreign workers from other countries such as Georgia, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan, and more will begin. The arrival of foreign workers will save the construction industry, which is currently in collapse, and most of the construction sites are closed. The trend is to bring about 40,000 more workers to Israel to complete a quota of 65,000 foreign workers because Palestinian workers who worked in the construction industry no longer come to work in...
  • Uber and Lyft to leave Minneapolis over ‘deeply flawed’ pay rules

    03/16/2024 9:47:00 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    The Verge ^ | 03/16/2024 | Emma Roth
    Uber and Lyft are pulling their services out of Minneapolis after the city council passed an ordinance that will increase drivers’ pay. Both companies say they will no longer offer ridesharing services in the city when the ordinance goes into effect on May 1st. The ordinance, which guarantees drivers a minimum rate of $1.40 per mile and 51 cents per minute while carrying a rider, was first passed last week but later vetoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The City Council voted 10–3 to override the veto on Thursday. Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin calls the ordinance “deeply flawed,” as the...
  • Tyson Foods Fires Hard-Working American Employees and Instead Hires Illegal Immigrants

    03/15/2024 8:57:49 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    Townhall ^ | 03/15/2024 | Sarah Arnold
    Welcome to 2024, where it is more beneficial to be an illegal immigrant in the United States than a U.S.-born, hard-working, law-abiding citizen. Tyson Foods is facing criticism and calls to be boycotted over the company reportedly firing its employees and hiring illegal immigrants in their place. According to Bloomberg, just days after Tyson Foods’s Perry, Iowa location fired more than 1,200 American workers, the company announced that it has partnered with a non-profit refugee group, Tent Partnership for Refugees, hiring thousands of asylum seekers instead. The food company reportedly recently had a job fair in Iowa for immigrants to...
  • America's top meat and poultry firm BOYCOTTED as it sacks 1,300 staff at Iowa pork plant and offers 'job-and-lawyer' packages in bid to hire 42,000 asylum seekers in New York

    03/15/2024 12:59:18 PM PDT · by bitt · 108 replies
    dailymail.co.uk ^ | 3/15/2024 | By JAMES REINL
    Tyson Foods is closing plants in Iowa, Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, and Missouri The company says it wants to double its immigrant hires to 84,000 this year READ MORE: 1.2 million US-born workers lose jobs to foreign-born staff Angry shoppers are boycotting Tyson Foods products as the $53-million meat firm shutters plants in Iowa and elsewhere while hiring thousands of asylum seekers at job fairs in New York. Campaigners are urging consumers to stop buying Tyson products amid its wave of closures of poultry- and meat-processing plants across Iowa, Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, and Missouri. They point to Tyson's efforts to hire...
  • Lyft, Uber plan to leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to hike driver pay

    03/14/2024 5:01:40 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 44 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 14, 2024
    Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour. Lyft called the ordinance “deeply flawed,” saying in a statement that it supports a minimum earning standard for drivers but not the one passed by the council. “It should be done in an honest way that keeps the service affordable for riders,” Lyft said. “This ordinance makes our operations unsustainable, and as a result, we are shutting down operations...
  • Tyson Foods wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs

    03/14/2024 6:19:39 PM PDT · by packagingguy · 117 replies
    Scripps News Service ^ | Mar 13, 2024 | Axel Turcios and Scripps News Staff
    New York City shelters are overwhelmed with migrants... But for companies like Tyson Foods Inc., struggling to fill unpopular jobs with a U.S. unemployment rate of 3.9%, this new population presents an alluring opportunity. The food processing company wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs, offering a starting wage of $16.50 per hour along with benefits. The company understands and is aware that these are jobs that many find unpleasant, such as washing meat, placing the cuts into trays, final inspections for bones and packing meat, but believe this will help the refugees to start a life in...
  • Americans Turn To Part-Time Jobs As Full-Time Employment Plummets

    03/12/2024 5:55:08 AM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | March 11, 2024 | Will Kessler
    The number of full-time jobs has plummeted since June 2023, with Americans turning to part-time jobs and working multiple jobs to make up the difference as economic factors like high inflation continue to put stress on consumers, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Since June, the number of full-time jobs has declined more than 1.8 million, from 134,787,000 to 132,946,000 as of February, according to the Federal Reserve of St. Louis. In that same time, the number of part-time employees working less than 35 hours per week has risen from 26,248,000 to 27,941,000, an increase of...
  • US jobless rate hits highest in two years

    03/09/2024 1:25:08 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    BBC ^ | 03/08/2024
    The jobless rate rose to 3.9%, up from 3.7% in January, even as employers added 275,000 jobs, the Labor Department said. Its monthly report is being closely watched for clues into how the world's largest economy is absorbing the jump in borrowing costs since 2022. The latest numbers sent mixed signals. Overall, analysts said there was little in the report to fuel major worries or raise fears that the economy would be harmed by higher interest rates. "Overall things still looking good," said Harvard professor Josh Furman, a former economic advisor to Barack Obama, on social media, while adding that...
  • 'I am losing my mind': Behind the rosy job numbers, Americans are struggling to find work [link only, as it is from USA Today]

    03/07/2024 10:40:01 AM PST · by grundle · 40 replies
    USA Today via Yahoo ^ | March 7, 2024 | Davidson, Bailey Schulz and Betty Lin-Fisher
    link only, as it is from USA Today
  • Kathy Hochul Moves Forward with Plan to Prioritize Illegal Immigrants for NY State Jobs

    02/29/2024 7:51:14 AM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 73 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 29 Feb 2024 | WARNER TODD HUSTON
    New York’s Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul is moving forward with her plan to retool the Civil Service Commission to put illegal aliens at the head of the line for state jobs. At the end of January, Hochul approved a plan for the state to hire 4,000 illegal aliens for entry-level state jobs. Not only is the state preparing to put illegals at the head of the line, but the plan Hochul approved eliminates several requirements for illegals to be eligible for the jobs. The rules requiring applicants to take the civil service exam and to have a high school diploma...
  • More than half of job postings don’t have education requirements: Indeed

    02/27/2024 11:45:58 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02/27/2024 | LEXI LONAS
    New research released by Indeed, a popular job posting platform, shows that the number of postings requiring college degrees — or any education requirement at all — is dwindling. Indeed found 52 percent of postings on its site had no formal education requirement as of January 2024, up 4 percent from 2019. The number of postings requiring four-year degrees went from 20.4 percent to 17.8 percent in the past five years. “Employers are loosening their formal education requirements as the labor market remains tight and attitudes towards skills-first hiring practices change. Those same employers seem more willing to consider candidates...
  • Young workers' injuries rise after recreational marijuana sales made legal

    02/25/2024 10:41:06 AM PST · by devane617 · 27 replies
    medicalxpress ^ | 02/25/2024
    After states legalize the sale of weed for recreational use, on-the-job injuries rise among younger workers, new research shows. U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics for 2006 through 2020 show that legal "recreational marijuana sales were associated with a 10% increase in workplace injuries among individuals aged 20 to 34 years," the study authors concluded. They note that prior research involving older workers did not show this effect. In fact, older workers' injury rates typically decline after recreational weed is made legal in their state, perhaps because older folk are only using their marijuana to ease pain. In contrast, the rise...