At first look, the BLS’s June unemployment numbers give a sharp contrast to May’s large jump in employment. But like every month, we’re going to look at these numbers a little closer.
Said one report in the NY Times:
Just as last month’s government job report appeared deceptively robust, swollen as it was by 411,000 workers hired by the federal government to help with the census, so the June report appears deceptively anemic, as the government is shedding many of those same temporary census workers.
Here’s why: While nonfarm payroll employment fell by 125,000 …

The British marque had earlier announced to add 275 new jobs at its production facility at Solihull in West Midlands to meet rising demand after sales improved for several months. Land Rover currently employs 9,500 people and supports a further 40,000 jobs in the supply chain.
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Although companies have been able to tap bond markets, the recovery of global financial markets is shaky
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While you were busy getting ready to own Steve Jobs, planning a single ladies’ night to the tune of $750 million or finally retiring those bright blue hot pants, here’s what was happening in employment news this week…

All that time you spent watching the World Cup during work hours doesn’t have to be a total loss.
Some people may have to put off that move to Florida.
Managers need management, too.
Will Bret Michaels make a cameo as an intern on VH1′s new reality show? (Fingers crossed!)
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Anyone else looking at the latest Employment Situation report, released this morning by the BLS, and feeling like the die hard fan of a pro sports team that just can’t seem to get it together? (Cubs fans, you know what I’m talking about…Ditto for Saints fans pre-Super Bowl XLIV.)  
I’m referring to the news that U.S. payrolls declined in June – quite a setback after six months of job growth. And here, we thought we were doing so well! (Okay, well, maybe not so well, but at least the economy was …

In Q2 2010, we saw improvements in the nation’s hiring outlook, and we cautiously cheered a little. But this time around, we may want to grab the nearest vuvuzela and blow it in excitement. (Or, uh, not.) Because while hiring in the second half of 2010 is likely to mirror the first half of the year in many ways, CareerBuilder and USA Today’s mid-year nationwide survey of more than 2,500 hiring and HR managers and more than 4,400 workers also shows that  the economy is projected to trend upward in …

Remember in Back to the Future II, when Marty travels to 2015 and sees that future Marty has the technology to video-conference in to his office from his very own living room and it was completely awesome?  Funny how that technology is actually a reality now.  (I can only hope this means good things for the hover board…) Sadly, video-conferencing is as far as Robert Zemeckis got in predicting what the workplace of the future would look like…
Fortunately, however, workplace experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd pick up where the movie director left off with their book, The …

SAS. Nordstrom. Google. Whole Foods. What do all these companies have in common beyond their brand recognition? They all made the 2010 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For. And this year at the 2010 SHRM Annual Convention in San Diego (#SHRM10), Michael Burchell, Ed. D., vice president for Global Business Development, Great Place to Work® Institute returned to talk about what exactly these 100 company’s do to make the list (last  year his talk focused on the 50 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For in America).  He …