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Global Shortages:
Australia:
Group urges national approach to work force shortage
A business lobby group says an exhibition today by the Queensland Premier Peter Beattie to lure workers out of New South Wales is a "cheeky stunt" and the states should be working together.
Canada: (ABC)

Canada:
Businesses offering workers signing bonus

Workers breaking into the Nanaimo labour market have it much easier these days, say business owners and employment agencies. They say the city, like the province, is facing a worker shortage and companies are offering incentives such as signing bonuses and better work benefits to lure and keep employees. (Nanaimo News)

GP dealing with declining spirits; but we're not ale-ing in suds dept.
Shortage of liquor a challenge for bars, retail outlets
Brace yourself Grande Prairie, there's a liquor shortage. But before the rioting starts, rest assured the beer supply is still safe. For almost a month now, liquor deliveries to Grande Prairie have slowed and stopped for several local bars and stores. The problem goes back to the distributor Connect Logistics, based in St. Albert. That company has the contract from Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) to supply all hard alcohol and imported beer in the province. In what is becoming a standard Alberta story, the company is experiencing a labour shortage at the same time that demand is soaring, meaning bars and stores are waiting longer than ever for delivery. (Daily Herald Tribune)

B.C. aviation firms face skills shortage
A Victoria company that wants to restart production of the Twin Otter, an icon among Canadian-built aircraft, is facing a familiar problem afflicting British Columbia's booming aerospace sector: a skills shortage. (Globe and Mail)

China:
Chinese economy enjoys comic relief
The Chinese government has an ambitious plan to boost domestic production of comic books, animation films and television series, seeing the fledgling industry as one of the new keys to sustaining growth in the economy. (atimes)

China labor pains and holiday woes
A shortage of workers at low-cost factories in China could spell trouble for U.S. toys, apparel, shoe retailers.
Retailers have a new, and unexpected, Grinch to worry about this Christmas: a Chinese labor crunch. Make that a cheap labor crunch. The migrant workers that typically man China's low-cost factories are drifting away. And it has some of the North American businesses that use those facilities - makers of toys, clothes, shoes and electronics - worried. (CNNMoney.com)

Ghana:
When Child Work Is Not Exploitative
The exploitative use of children for economic gains by adults has become a source of concern for many people around the world. However, in the midst of all the concerns raised about child labour and the alarming figures that are being quoted from various sources, one must not mistake child work for child labour. This is because in Africa, children are brought up in such a way that they take up the profession of their parents and this particularly occurs in rural settings, where the transfer of skills such as farming, smithery, and herbal preparations is a common feature. (Graphic Ghana)

Global:
The Voodoo Economics of Indian Outsourcing

In an interesting set of articles, Information Week reports that "IT employment in the United States is growing even as more businesses outsource tech work overseas" and Line 56 reports that India's labor shortage is driving them to hire Americans and other foreigners. Recent survey data indicates that domestic US demand for skilled IT workers is on the rise, pay levels are up, and worker confidence is outpacing other sectors. (CMS Wire)

EDS Has Its Work Cut Out
From large companies such as Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) to smaller, more focused operators such as Resources Connection (Nasdaq: RECN), there are dozens of ways to play the outsourcing trend. Turnaround candidates are also a possibility -- one of them being EDS (NYSE: EDS), a company that looks like a potential value but has some meaningful headwinds to address. ... That said, some larger issues still concern me. For starters, because EDS was relatively late to the outsourcing game, it lags behind the likes of Accenture and IBM. EDS is trying to catch up, though, which may ultimately be bad news for operators such as Infosys (Nasdaq: INFY) as more companies compete for a finite labor supply. (Motley Fool)

India:
BNKe Sol eyes small towns
Kolkata-based business process outsourcing companies may face a shortage in human resources in the coming years as similar establishments in other metros soak up manpower from the state. However, the attrition rate in this city for the industry is a lower 30 per cent as compared to the 40 per cent in the rest of India. (Business Standard)

Ireland:
IMF says Irish economic growth has become increasingly unbalanced in recent years with heavy reliance on building investment, sharp increases in house prices, and rapid credit growth
In a review of the Irish Economy published in Washington D.C. on Monday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that economic growth is strong, unemployment is low and labor participation rising, and government debt has been reduced dramatically over the past two decades. Nevertheless, it observed that growth has become increasingly unbalanced in recent years, with heavy reliance on building investment, sharp increases in house prices, and rapid credit growth, especially to property-related sectors. (finfacts)

Jamaica:
Fire brigade beefs up personnel

The Jamaica Fire Brigade yesterday graduated 123 men and women at the G.C. Foster College, St. Catherine. Under a searing sun, the brigade, which is experiencing a human capacity shortage of about 300 persons, paraded the 123 men and women, who were chosen from a group of 132. The 123 went through a series of practical and academic training over 12 weeks to emerge as graduates. (Jamaica Gleaner)

South Africa:
SA's serious executive shortage
Deloitte's Laurence Grubb on the serious executive shortage the country is facing and why this vacuum of top skills has occurred. (iafrica)

Thailand:
Fears for labour force as women shun marriage

Nearly half of Kingdom's women now single, demography expert tells seminar
Nearly half of Thai women are single, prompting concerns that as more women go childless, the country may face a labour shortage and end up having to import workers, a demographer said yesterday. (The Nation)

UK:
UK Oil and Gas faces crisis over skills shortage
A national campaign to tackle the acute skills shortage facing the UK subsea oil and gas industry has been launched: Subsea needs to recruit more professional engineers. (ProcessingTalk)

US:
U.S. makes legal entry tough for Mexicans

'IT REQUIRES MONEY AND CONNECTIONS'
Jesœs Rojas wanted no part of the arduous trek across the Sonora desert and no part of life underground in the United States, working in the shadow of the law. So when a nephew in his central Mexican town of Guanajuato introduced him to a recruiter for an American landscaping company that would sponsor him legally, the 52-year-old handyman jumped at the chance. (Lexington Herald)

Combating Skills Shortage, IBM Hosts University Workshops
As part of a larger effort to combat the shortage of skills in the IT marketplace, IBM is bringing its application development technologies right through the front doors of academia. (eweek)

Rethinking The Last 200 Years Of US Immigration Policy
Conventional histories of US immigration policy generally present the starting point as laissez-faire, or open door, an attitude that only shifted to favor increased restriction after the Civil War. The door began to close with the exclusion of Chinese in the final decades of the 19th century and the imposition of annual quotas for Europeans in the 1920s. (ILW.com)


Slim Pickin'
The crackdown on illegal immigrants has left local farmers short of labor as crops lie withering in the summer sun. An inconsistent number of laborers are showing up for harvesting and local farm production is drastically down. Farms all over South County are feeling the monetary effects of the labor shortage. (Dispatch)

Organic farms face a severe labor shortage
Foreman Eber Diaz is bent over a field of parsley, a sickle in his right hand, his left working quickly to gather herbs among the weeds. For every fragrant bunch he picks and ties with a twist, he stops to rip out handfuls of the thick-stemmed weeds crowding the crop. (Modesto Bee)

Whither Contracting Management
You've heard all the talk about the federal acquisition workforce being eligible to retire in less than a decade. The Federal Acquisition Institute has released its latest annual report and pretty much confirms it.  Fifty four percent of contracting professionals are eligible to retire in 2015, according to FAI's report. (FederalNewsRadio )

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