News tagged with labor shortage

Foxconn raises worker pay by 30 pct after suicides

(AP) -- Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, shaken by a spate of suicides at its China plants, said Wednesday it is raising the pay of workers by 30 percent, a greater increase than first planned.

Technology / Business

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taiwan's Foxconn raising pay for workers

(AP) -- The Taiwanese electronics company buffeted by a spate of suicides at its China factories said Friday it will raise the pay of workers by an average of 20 percent.

Technology / Business

created May 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Job boom, but an economic bust

Baby boomers will need to play a critical role in filling a potentially significant labor shortage later this decade after the economy recovers from its downturn, according to new research by Northeastern University.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Human-like robot smiles, scolds in Japan classroom

(AP) -- Japan's robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it's not about to replace human instructors.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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Study finds some children born in the year of the dragon have an advantage

As Chinese New Year approaches, Many East-Asian families hope that their children will be born in this Year of the Dragon because of the belief that the child will be smarter and more prosperous than children ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Berkeley Lab seeks to help US assert scientific leadership in critical materials

A few short decades ago, few could have imagined that the world would be seriously concerned over something called dysprosium. Also known as number 66 on the periodic table, dysprosium was once just another element for chemistry ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NY bill would require bachelor's degrees for RNs

(AP) -- New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor's degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey looks at experience of mid-life and older adults returning to graduate education

Americans are remaining in the workforce longer and many are changing or advancing their careers well past age 40.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Future labor shortfalls of medical professionals predicted due to new demands of health-care reform

One consequence of the expanded access to health care facilitated by health care reform will be a shortfall in the necessary numbers of physicians and other advanced medical professionals. According to a study published in ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar

(AP) -- Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Pa. robot institute attracts presidential visit

(AP) -- Need help defusing a bomb, mowing a lawn, or scraping old paint?

Technology / Other

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chief of national nursing group says ‘nursing shortage’ coming soon

The United States will see half of its most experienced nurses and half of its nursing faculty at colleges and universities retire during the next decade, the president of a national nursing association said Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disease claims young victims in Ivory Coast crisis

(AP) -- Kneeling family members bent in prayer over two little bodies wrapped in sheets on the grass in the hospital grounds. Then two women among them released heart-rending wails.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Progesterone reduces rate of early preterm birth in at-risk women

A National Institutes of Health study has found that progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone, reduced the rate of preterm birth before the 33rd week of pregnancy by 45 percent among one category of at risk women.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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