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The European population is ageing rapidly and is expected to start shrinking by 2026, as people live longer and have fewer children, and the age structure of the population changes. In 2022, 21.1 % of the EU population was aged 65 and over.
Millions ‘holding on with their fingertips’ due to high interest rates, squeezed wages and Covid costs, says the European TUC boss, Esther LynchWorkers across Europe are “holding on with their fingernails” and face a bleak winter ahead, as high interes…
In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage:
Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings in 2013 to 3.5 million in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. The number of unfilled jobs leveled off in 2022, and remains at 3.5 million in 2023, with more than 750,000 of those positions in the U.S. Industry efforts to source new talent and tackle burnout continues, but we predict that the disparity between demand and supply will remain through at least 2025.
The numbers never made sense to me, and Ben Rothke has dug in and …
Deaths and alleged abuse of Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia fuels demands for Nairobi to act on human rights Rights groups have expressed concern that not enough has been done to address the alleged mistreatment of domestic workers in Gulf states, such as…
Migrants NGO finds recruiters making applicants pay for medical fees and training by taking out credit at exorbitant rates of interestEmployment agencies and money-lending companies in the Philippines are cheating women applying for jobs abroad out of …
Platform work is on the rise, with hundreds of digital platforms active in the EU and millions of workers earning some income by working for them.
About 2,000 crew members withdrew labour over pay and conditions, as well as citing serious breaches of overfishing rules by Spanish and French companiesThe waters of west Africa and the Indian Ocean boast some of the world’s largest, healthiest popula…
Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wagesThree World Cup security guards who were detained while trying to resolve a dispute over unpaid wages are still being held in …
Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children workSome of the world’s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the planta…
Poor pay, risky work, anxiety and job insecurity reported by delivery, transport and data workers tied to digital platforms More than half of gig economy workers in the UK are earning less than the minimum wage, new research has found, with a quarter r…