Want to go where the jobs are ? Check out New York’s tech industry. The city’s second annual NYC Start-ups Job Fair, held last month, drew a packed-to-capacity crowd of both job seekers and those looking to hire them. It was so crowded that the organizers turned away 80 startups looking to attend and recruit.
Job seeker demandeur d’emploi – To hire embaucher – To turn away refuser, refouler – To attend assister à, être présent.
In the UK, graduates face an unprecedented scramble for jobs this summer with the number of applications having almost trebled in three years. The biannual Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) survey questioned 144 member firms about their graduate vacancies, including Barclays, Nestle, Tesco, Accenture and Microsoft. They received a record number of applications this year – an average of 83 for every vacancy.
Graduate diplomé – Scramble ruée – Application candidature – To treble tripler – Survey étude, sondage – Vacancy poste vacant.
In the UK, the Government has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s (LPC) recommendations for an increase in national minimum wage rates. The adult minimum wage rate will increase by 15p to £6.08 an hour, a rise of 2.5 %, which bucks the trend for current salary increases.
Increase augmentation – Wage salaire – Current actuel – To buck the trend inverser, aller à l’encontre de la tendance.
Personal legal matters-such as will preparation, traffic tickets, real estate issues, debt problems and family situations like adoption and divorce-are common occurrences that can take a toll on workplace productivity. A new American study, The Impact of Legal Matters on Today’s Work Force, found that people facing these types of legal issues spend, on average, close to three hours a week at work dealing with their situation for an average duration of five to six weeks.
Will testament – Ticket contravention – Real estate immobilier – Issue question, problème – To take a toll on nuire à – On average en moyenne – To deal with s’occuper de.
Britain’s unemployment rate fell unexpectedly to 7.7 % in the first quarter from 7.8 % during the final three months of 2010, official data showed in May. Market expectations had been for a reading of 7.8 % between January and March, according to economists. The Office for National Statistics added that the number of unemployed in Britain fell by 36,000 to 2.46 million people in the first quarter. This is the second consecutive quarter that the jobless total has dropped and represents a 0.1 decrease in unemployment from 7.8 per cent in the previous quarter.
Unemployment rate taux de chômage – Unexpectedly contre toute attente – Quarter trimestre – To drop baisser – Decrease diminution – Previous précédent.
According to a survey undertaken in the UK by recruitment consultancy Hays IT, 71 % of IT contractors earn about £50,000 per year compared with 26 % of permanent staff. Some 27 % of respondents said that three months was the minimum length of contract they would consider for short-term roles.
To undertake entreprendre, conduire (étude) – Contractor fournisseur, prestataire – Length durée.
The UK’s top earners have seen their incomes rise 64 per cent in the last 11 years, while the poorest half of society only saw a 7 per cent rise in the same period, according to an independent report into inequality. The High Pay Commission, an inquiry set up by the left-wing Compass group, said that the top 0.1 per cent of the population – just 47,000 people – saw their average earnings go up from £328,000 in 1996-7 to £538,600 in 2007-8. The inquiry suggested that this elite group could be receiving 10 per cent of all income by 2025, exacerbating inequality in society. Wage disparity between the UK’s top earners and the rest of the working population will soon return to the levels of the Victorian era unless action is taken to curb executive pay.
Top earners (les) très hauts salaires – Income revenu – Left-wing de gauche – Average earnings revenus/salaires moyens – Wage salaire – To curb limiter, freiner.
According to NewsChannel5, Nashville has joined more than 100 other localities across the nation that prohibit firms and contractors conducting business with the city from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Similar protections were granted to city employees in 2009, and Metro Council members voted 21-15 in May to extend the ordinance to cover contractors, which now will be required to sign affidavits of compliance with the new rule.
To prohibit interdire – Contractor entrepreneur – Gender identity identité sexuelle/sexe – To grant octroyer – Council member conseiller municipal – Ordinance décret – Compliance conformité, respect (de la loi).
The Scottish industrial heartlands of West Dunbartonshire and East Ayrshire have overtaken inner London boroughs to become the worst place to find a job in Britain, according to new research from the TUC. The analysis looks at the proportion of jobseeker’s allowance claimants to Jobcentre Plus vacancies in every local authority from March 2005 to March 2011 and ranks each of the 206 local authority areas by its claimant-to-vacancies ratio. Across Britain, the number of claimants per vacancy has quadrupled from 1.5 in 2005 to 6 this year.
Heartland centre, cœur – To overtake, took, taken dépasser, devancer – Inner London boroughs arrondissements défavorisés du centre de Londres – TUC (Trades Union Congress) Fédération des syndicats du Royaume-Uni – Jobseeker’s allowance allocation chômage – Claimant demandeur – Vacancy poste vacant/à pourvoir – To rank classer.
The Wisconsin General Assembly has introduced a new bill that would make it permissible for a school to fire or refuse to hire anyone with a felony conviction, regardless of how the felony relates to the employment HRhero.com reports. The bill specifies that it would not be discriminatory for an educational agency to terminate or refuse to employ an individual who has been convicted of a felony and hasn’t been pardoned, regardless of whether the circumstances of the felony substantially relate to the circumstances of the particular job.
To introduce a bill présenter un projet de loi – To fire licencier – to hire embaucher – With a felony conviction (ayant été) condamné pour crime – Regardless of sans tenir compte de, peu importe – To pardon gracier.
