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Unfilled jobs spark heated debate in Italy

Italy’s unemployment rate is over 12pc and the proportion is much higher at 39.1pc for active 15-24-year-olds who are not in school or university. But some sectors – from pizza makers to engineering, from craftsmen to sales – complain they are unable to find enough applicants to fill their many vacancies, with some employers accusing young Italians of being too laid-back for the job market. ...

Consumers more confident, less worried about jobs

Nielsen survey shows US, Chinese and Japanese consumers more upbeat in Q2, while Indonesia remains the world’s most bullish consumer market and Portuguese is the most pessimistic ...

OECD sees record 12.3pc EU jobless rate in 2014

The eurozone’s record unemployment rate of 12.3pc by end-2014 expected to hit young people the hardest, with huge disparities between Germany and hard-up countries such as Spain and Greece, according to OECD forecast ...

EU kicks off jobs summit after budget compromise

EU leaders kicked off a two-day summit on Thursday tackling the jobs crisis hours after compromise between governments on the EU’s trillion-euro budget. ...

Italy adopts crisis measures on youth jobs

A package of about US$1.95b of European and national funds is being released to finance action to get 200,000 young Italians into work amid a staggering 40pc jobless rate among the country’s youth ...

World down on jobs, with Europe bleakest: Gallup

57pc of adults worldwide said it was a bad time to find a job – unchanged from 2011, although global views on job prospects have improved since 2009, the height of the global downturn. Greece, Italy and Spain the worst places to find work ...

Winged woman

Air Hong Kong COO Anna Thompson is riding high in her air-cargo career, writes Nick Walker. ...

Italian workers 'recycle' jobs after factory shutdown

Unemployed Italian factory workers create jobs by taking over disused factory and planning to set up recycling business. ...

Scheduling interviews before flying to HK

I'm an Italian art director, currently based in Vietnam and I'm looking to relocate to ... ...