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Even though the current economic recession has resulted in greater job losses for women, recruitment and human resource management firms say that given today's challenging economic conditions, companies need to be more inclusive and forward looking.
According to a report titled Women and Recession by TUC, so far it looks as though women's jobs will be affected more than in previous recessions as since the start of the 2008 the female redundancy rate has increased by 2.3 percentage points, almost double the rate of male increase (1.2 percentage points). In some regions there have been stronger effects for women. For example, in the Northwest United Kingdom the rate of women's unemployment has increased at almost double the rate of male unemployment since the start of the downturn...[ Read full story]The UAE in general is perceived as an equal-opportunity employer with an exception of areas such as manual labour
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The old facility in the same area will be shut down on the same day. The... |
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