Unemployment

Strike, Protests Over Drugmaker Teva Layoffs Shutter Key Services Across Israel – Teva To Lay Off 14,000 Workers Worldwide

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– Strike, protests over drugmaker Teva layoffs shutter key services across Israel:

Hundreds of workers of the generic drugmaker Teva have held demonstrations to protest the multinational pharmaceutical company’s decision to lay off nearly 1,800 of its workforce as a half-day strike over the move suspended key services across the occupying entity.

Israel’s trade union Histadrut on Sunday held the crippling strike to voice its strong dissent against the move by the Israeli Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest manufacturer of generic drugs, which intends to make 1,750 employees redundant in Israel.

The layoffs, almost one-quarter of the company’s local workforce, are part of plans, announced last week, to lay off 14,000 other Teva workers across the world over the next two years, amounting to over a quarter of its global workforce of over 55,000.

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Thanks, Mnuchin: Lego Slashes 1,400 Jobs As Sales Of “Batman” Toy Sets Falter

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– Thanks, Mnuchin: Lego Slashes 1,400 Jobs As Sales Of “Batman” Toy Sets Falter:

Lego cemented its status as a vaunted turnaround story with the success of the “Lego” movies which – fun fact – were produced by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

But after nearly a decade of expansion, the company announced Tuesday that it will be cutting 1,400 jobs as it struggles with weak demand for a new line of “Batman” play sets that’s contributing to its worst downturn in more than a decade. The cuts, the company’s first in 10 years, would be tantamount to letting 8% of its workforce go. The move came after Europe’s largest toymaker said Tuesday that sales in the first half fell 5 percent to 14.9 billion kroner.

“We’re losing momentum and we’re losing productivity,” Chairman Jorgen Vig Knudstorp said on a conference call. “We have built an increasingly complex organization. This could ultimately lead to stagnation or decline.”

According to Bloomberg, Lego is suffering its biggest crisis since 2003 and 2004, when the maker of colorful plastic bricks reported record losses. After a turnaround led by Knudstorp that transformed the struggling brand into the world’s most-profitable toymaker, sales have slumped anew as children spend more time on digital devices. Predictably, the shift has created tumult in the C-suite amid rapid executive turnover.

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Greece Brain Drain: 33% Of Unemployed Looking For Jobs Abroad Vs 11% In 2015

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– Greece Brain Drain: 33% Of Unemployed Looking For Jobs Abroad Vs 11% In 2015:

Despite the falling unemployment rate, the percentage of those unemployed seeking jobs abroad has risen from 11% in 2015 to 33% this year. The message seems to be “get me the hell out of here”.

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The Real Unemployment Number: 102 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job

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– The Real Unemployment Number: 102 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job:

Did you know that the number of working age Americans that do not have a job right now is far higher than it was during the worst moments of the last recession?  For example, in January 2009 92.6 million working age Americans did not have a job, but we just found out that in May the number of working age Americans without a job increased to just a shade under 102 million.  We’ll go over those numbers in more detail in a moment, but first I want to talk a bit about the difference between perception and reality.  According to the bureaucrats in the federal government, the “unemployment rate” in May was the lowest that we have seen in 16 years.  At just “4.3 percent”, we are essentially at “full employment”, and so according to them anyone that really wants a job should be able to find one pretty easily.

Of course that is a load of nonsense.  John Williams of shadowstats.com tracks what our economic numbers would look like if honest numbers were being used, and according to his calculations the unemployment rate is currently 22 percent.

So what accounts for the wide disparity between those numbers?

Read moreThe Real Unemployment Number: 102 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job

Depression-Level Unemployment in America

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– Depression-Level Unemployment in America:

Real unemployment rate at +- 23%, not 4.7% as mainstream news and government claims.

Monthly Labor Department jobs reports are phony. Paul Craig Roberts calls them “a bad joke,” saying America’s economy is a “house of cards.” A day of reckoning awaits.

Job numbers are inflated, manufactured out of thin air, partly based on a so-called birth-death model, estimating net non-reported jobs from new businesses minus losses from others no longer operating.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) admits misreporting, saying “(t)he confidence level for the monthly change in total employment is on the order of plus or minus 430,000 jobs.”

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Over 100,000 More Americans Are On Jobless Benefits Now Than Before Trump’s Election

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– Over 100,000 More Americans Are On Jobless Benefits Now Than Before Trump’s Election:

Continuing jobless claims are up over 100,000 since Donald Trump’s election victory and stand at 4-month highs. This is the biggest percentage rise in claims since May 2009, all happening as small business optimism, consumer confidence, and stocks soar to cyclical highs.

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Mann, Sieber enttarnt Angela Merkel! So täuscht die Bundesregierung! (Video)

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For my German speaking readers.

Dec 1, 2016

November 2016: Tobias Mann und Christoph Sieber decken auf und zeigen wie Angela Merkel täuscht!

Ganze Sendung hier: http://bit.ly/2gSpvA9

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Italy’s Largest Bank Laying Off 14,000, Raising €13 Billion In Business Overhaul

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– Italy’s Largest Bank Laying Off 14,000, Raising €13 Billion In Business Overhaul:

UniCredit announced on Tuesday a major restructuring plan to raise €13 billion in capital to return the Italian bank to profitability, hoping that a balance-sheet cleanup and cost cuts will persuade investors that Italy’s biggest bank can restore profitability even without much revenue growth. As part of the three-year strategy, the bank plans to shed an additional 6,500 jobs, bringing the total to 14,000, as it aims for 1.7 billion euros of annual cost savings. The bank is targeting 4.7 billion euros of net profit in 2019 with a return on tangible equity above 9%, Milan-based UniCredit laid out in a presentation this morning.

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Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar To Record 95.1 Million: Jump By 446,000 In One Month

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– Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar To Record 95.1 Million: Jump By 446,000 In One Month:

So much for that much anticipated rebound in the participation rate.

After it had managed to post a modest increase in the early part of the year, hitting the highest level in one year in March at 63%, the disenchantment with working has returned, and the labor force participation rate had flatlined for the next few month, ultimately dropping in November to 62.7%, just shy of its 35 year low of 62.4% hit last October. This can be seen in the surge of Americans who are no longer in the labor force, who spiked by 446,000 in November, hitting an all time high of 95.1 million.

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As a result of this the US labor force shrank by 226,000 to 159,486K, down from 159,712K a month ago, and helped the unemployment rate tumble to 4.6%, the lowest level since August 2007.

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Airbus to fire 1,100 workers amid losses, Iran dilemma

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H/t reader squodgy:

“This will speed up the Sino-Russian project.
If the US sanctions screw up sales of planes by both puppet aircraft manufacturers Boeing & Airbus, the US are cutting everyone’s noses to spite Iran.”

Related info:

– Russia & China reveal their alternative to Airbus & Boeing

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The layoffs will be spread across four countries in Europe.

– Airbus to fire 1,100 workers amid losses, Iran dilemma:

Airbus has announced plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs across Europe and close one of its sites in the Paris region, capping a year marked by a series of losses.

The company has been running into headwinds with its A350 passenger jet – Airbus’s answer to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner – which has missed several targets to take off commercially.

Airbus has also suffered losses of about two billion euros on its A400M military transporter while its helicopter division has suffered from a weak market.

According to Airbus spokesman Jacques Rocca, the layoffs will be spread across four countries, with 640 jobs cut in France, 429 in Germany, 54 in Britain and 39 in Spain.

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Wal-Mart To Fire 7,000

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– Wal-Mart To Fire 7,000:

Setting the mood ahead of tomorrow’s “critical” for the Fed’s September rate hike decision payrolls report, moments ago, WSJ reported that Wal-Mart Stores plans to cut 7,000 back office positions around the country, a restructuring move that in addition to seeking to improve its efficiency, will drastically alter the layout of its workforce, which as recently as a year ago was delighted by WMT’s minimum wage price hikes.

WSJ reports that the country’s largest private employer is eliminating about 7,000 U.S. store accounting and invoicing positions over the next several months, jobs mostly held by long-term employees, often some of the highest paid hourly workers in stores. The retailer wants those employees working with shoppers, not in backrooms, say company executives. Centralizing or automating much of those tasks is more efficient, they say.

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When ‘Whatever It Takes’ Fails: 37% Of Italians Give Up Job Hunt As Welfare State Grows

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– When ‘Whatever It Takes’ Fails: 37% Of Italians Give Up Job Hunt As Welfare State Grows:

With France calling for the EU’s budget limits to be lifted and everyone breaking every rule of fiscal responsibility – because Draghi has killed the market’s signal – the fear of ever deepening deficits is (for now) removed. Enabling governments to do “whatever it takes” to get re-elected, because reforms are vote-killers, has incentivized an ever-growing group of Europeans to simply give up the job search… with Italians at the top of the list…

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Going from the final quarter of 2015 through March of this year, 37 percent of unemployed Italians gave up their job search, while only 13 percent landed new work and a full half found their status unchanged.

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John Williams Of Shadowstats.com: We Won’t Get Through The Elections Without Major Disruptions To The Finanical System – “The Dollar Is Going To Collapse” (Video)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e1ImGC3ojY

Jun 10, 2016

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China’s Real Unemployment Rate Is Three Times Higher Than The Offical Number

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– China’s Real Unemployment Rate Is Three Times Higher Than The Offical Number:

Based on a new report by Fathom Consulting, it appears that China is also dramatically misreporting what may be the one most critical for social stability metric, its unemployment rate, which when stripped away of the political propaganda, is more than three times greater than the officially reported rate. According to Fathom, China’s underemployment Indicator has tripled to 12.9% since 2012 even while the official jobless rate has hovered near 4% for five years.

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Worst Jobs Report In Nearly 6 Years – 102 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have Jobs

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– Worst Jobs Report In Nearly 6 Years – 102 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have Jobs:

This is exactly what we have been expecting to happen.  On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the U.S. economy only added 38,000 jobs in May.  This was way below the 158,000 jobs that analysts were projecting, and it is also way below what is needed just to keep up with population growth.  In addition, the number of jobs created in April was revised down by 37,000 and the number of jobs created in March was revised down by 22,000.  This was the worst jobs report in almost six years, and the consensus on Wall Street is that it was an unmitigated disaster.

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In Today’s Layoff News: Microsoft Fires 1,850; Intel Cuts 350; Shell Terminating 2,200

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– In Today’s Layoff News: Microsoft Fires 1,850; Intel Cuts 350; Shell Terminating 2,200:

How do you know the Fed is justified in hiking again, the economy is recovering, and the market are zooming higher? One hint is the just announced thousands in layoffs in both the energy and tech sector, among which are Shell, which announced it would layoff 2,200 jobs; Microsoft reporting it would cut 1,850; and Intel terminating up to 350 jobs in Germany.

The details:

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562,000 Workers Drop Out Of The Labor Force As Participation Rate Resumes Drop

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– 562,000 Workers Drop Out Of The Labor Force As Participation Rate Resumes Drop:

In addition to the poor headline Establishment survey print which rose only 160,000 in April, coupled with a deplorable Household survey employment number which plunged by 316,000 for the month and below levels seen in February, an even more concerning development was the resumption in the deteriorating trend in the US labor force participation rate, which in recent months had been on a steady increase as far fewer workers were dropping out of the workforce (contrary to convention wisdom, this was not driven by new entrants into the labor force).

All that changed today, when the number of Americans not in the labor force soared by a whopping 562,000 in April, pushing the grand total of people not in the labor force back over 94 million and fast approaching the all time high of 94.6 million.

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Why Donald Trump Thinks Unemployment Is 42%

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Related info:

– What’s The Real Unemployment Rate In The US?

– The Real Unemployment Rate In The U.S. Is At Least 30%

– Participation Rate Crashes To October 1977 Level: Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar By 579,000 To Record 94.6 Million

– Right Now There Are 102.6 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have A Job

– US Unemployment Rate Hits 37.2%

– Why Trump Thinks Unemployment Is 42%:

During his victory speech last night in the New Hampshire Republican primary, Donald Trump exposed what everyone knows but doesnit dare admit: the “phony” unemployment numbers that Obama continues to crow about and The Fed is so focused on….

“Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5% unemployment. The number’s probably 28%, 29%, as high as 35%, in fact, I even heard recently 42%,”

How does he justify such large estimates? Simple…

Read moreWhy Donald Trump Thinks Unemployment Is 42%

Schlumberger Fires 10,000 As It Announces A $10 Billion Stock Buyback

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– Schlumberger Fires 10,000 As It Announces A $10 Billion Stock Buyback:

When your organic growth is over, your revenue just missed consensus expectations once again ($7.74Bn vs $7.77BN expected), your stock is trading near 4 years lows and and you are stuck in the imploding energy sector, what do you do? Why you announce a $10 billion stock buyback, but since you will have to fund it with more debt (whose cost in recent weeks has soared) you have to get rid of “overhead.” How do you do that? Simple: you announce you are firing 10,000 workers.

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Update to BLS December Payroll Jobs Report: It is even worse than I reported

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Seems the Americans, just like the Brits, are learning what it’s really like to be a MUSHROOM.

They keep us in total darkness, and occasionally feed us shit.”

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

– Update to BLS December Payroll Jobs Report: It is even worse than I reported — Paul Craig Roberts:

Update to BLS December Payroll Jobs Report: It is even worse than I reported

In my column on Friday I reported the unreported facts in the payroll jobs report. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/08/another-fabricated-jobs-report-paul-craig-roberts-2/ If we choose to believe the report, it is really very bad news. Good middle class jobs are continuing to decline. The new jobs are jobs that pay considerably less and often are part-time jobs devoid of benefits. Moreover, the new jobs are going to people outside the prime working age. The unavoidable conclusion is that for the majority of Americans, economic prospects are declining.

There is more bad news to be added to this dismal picture. The payroll jobs report provides both the actual numbers of jobs from the survey and the seasonally adjusted number. The news release is always the seasonally adjusted number, which is the number that my column examines. However, the seasonally adjusted number is concocted.

Read moreDr. Paul Craig Roberts: Update to BLS December Payroll Jobs Report: It is even worse than I reported

Citi “Resizes Infrastructure” Post Fed Rate Hike – Slashes 2,000 Jobs

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– Citi “Resizes Infrastructure” Post Fed Rate Hike – Slashes 2,000 Jobs:

Perhaps in a recognition of the collapsing yield curve, and for sure in the face of the mainstream’s bullish narrative on US banks in a post-rate-hike paradigm, Citi has announced plans to cut at least 2,000 jobs starting next month. Despite exuberance over higher rates, it appears Citi’s CEO Michael Corbat wants to restructure some of the bank’s businesses.

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