<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Human-resources News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=23&amp;catid=3</link><description>News Feed for - Human-resources</description><item><title>WebTech Wireless Cuts Full Time Workforce By More Than 10% - Update</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96646603&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T11:17:00</pubDate><description>(RTTNews) - Wireless services provider WebTech Wireless Inc. (WEW.TO: News ) Friday said it has reduced its full-time workforce by over 10% and adopted other cost saving measures, citing an effort to </description><source>RTTNews.com</source></item><item><title>Job market improves; CPI sags</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96641901&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T08:14:00</pubDate><description>The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped for the third consecutive month to 5.1 percent in October, but government officials remained cautious over the labor situation. The jobless rate improved </description><source>Asahi.com</source></item><item><title>Town Axes Real Xmas Tree Over Safety Fears</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96598351&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T13:17:00</pubDate><description>Lulu Sinclair, Sky News Online The season of goodwill has turned somewhat sour in one Dorset town this year over the decision to replace its traditional Christmas tree with a fake one - for health and </description><source>Sky News</source></item><item><title>Unemployment benefits being extended for some</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96678609&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T16:29:00</pubDate><description>Vermont Department of Labor officials say they've begun notifying some people receiving jobless benefits that they could be eligible for more.</description><source>Boston Globe</source></item><item><title>Fed-up mum dumps baby at lovers workplace</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96673715&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T15:45:00</pubDate><description>By Starsky Mkhonta Font size: A young man was humiliated by his lover who arrived at his work place to dump their baby. Sibusiso Nhleko had to abandon work at Montigny Investments and baby-seat his two-year-old </description><source>Swazi Observer</source></item><item><title>Nancy Nicoll O'Neill Joins GastroIntestinal Healthcare as Practice Administrator</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96412750&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T13:30:00</pubDate><description>11-25-2009 RALEIGH, NC - Gastrolntestinal Healthcare has announced the recent hiring of Nancy Nicoll O'Neill as Practice Administrator. In her role, O'Neill will be responsible for overall financial management, </description><source>Carolina Newswire</source></item><item><title>New taxes for employee benefits introduced</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96661181&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T12:53:00</pubDate><description>Employees across the country are concerned about a notice published by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) that said cash subsidies for travel and other work benefits will be taxed. The notice, issued on the </description><source>People's Daily Online</source></item><item><title>WebTech Wireless Adopts Cost Saving Measures and Announces Workforce Reductions</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96645942&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T12:55:00</pubDate><description>WebTech Wireless Inc. (TSX:WEW), a leading provider of vehicle location-based and fleet telematics services, announces that it has reduced its full-time workforce by more than 10% and adopted other cost </description><source>TMC Net</source></item><item><title>Safety needle program being extended to more health care facilities</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96586428&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T11:06:00</pubDate><description>TORONTO - The provincial government is expanding a needle safety program to a third group of workplaces in Ontario. So-called safety needles are designed to eliminate or minimize the risk of needle punctures </description><source>CBC</source></item><item><title>Houston Chronicle Loren Steffy column: Small players in stock market getting smaller</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96549204&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T07:25:00</pubDate><description>(Houston Chronicle - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- For individual investors, buying stocks increasingly is a computer game. As in some science fiction movie, investors now find </description><source>TMC Net</source></item><item><title>Mahindra Satyam to hire 1,000 freshers</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96581347&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T06:12:00</pubDate><description>MUMBAI: IT company Mahindra Satyam plans to appoint 1,000 freshers by December 15, a top company official said. 'The process is on and we will give appointment letters to 1,000 freshers out of the 8,000 </description><source>Times of India</source></item><item><title>AMC announces annual winners for manpower, personnel, services</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96622450&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T03:39:00</pubDate><description>Posted 11/24/2009 Updated 11/24/2009 by Air Mobility Command Public Affairs 11/24/2009 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Air Mobility Command's Manpower, Personnel and Services (A1) Directorate announced </description><source>McChord Air Force Base</source></item><item><title>Chinese Tibetologists meet French HR committee officials</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96485891&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T02:06:00</pubDate><description>The visiting delegation of Chinese Tibetologists meets with officials of France Human Rights Committee on November 25 (local time) (China Tibet Information Center Photo) The visiting delegation including </description><source>People's Daily Online</source></item><item><title>Graduate job hunters must 'do their homework'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96614031&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T01:23:00</pubDate><description>A graduate jobs specialist has urged university leavers to research every employer they apply to in order to increase their chances of finding work. Carl Gilleard, chief executive of the Association of </description><source>Gradplus.com</source></item><item><title>Health and safety forces council to swap traditional Christmas tree for £14,000 </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96608958&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:29:00</pubDate><description>From a health and safety point of view, it is the perfect Christmas tree. There are no sharp needles, no unwieldy branches and no chance of it falling over and hurting someone. But according to residents </description><source>Mail Online UK</source></item><item><title>Job fair offered hope to people seeking work</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96501408&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:50:00</pubDate><description>About 1,000 job seekers attended a recent job fair at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, in which 65 employers including resource organizations participated. 'The job fair gave people hope that there </description><source>News Transcript</source></item><item><title>MTN: MTN - MTN Group Limited - Appointment Of New Independent Non-Executive Directos</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96676382&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T16:13:00</pubDate><description>MTN - MTN Group Limited - Appointment Of New Independent Non-Executive Directos And Executive Director MTN Group Limited Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) Registration number 1994/009584/06) </description><source>JSE Securities Exchange</source></item><item><title>BRIEF-Webtech Wireless announces workforce reductions</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96646767&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T09:25:00</pubDate><description>The pricing, performance and/or news information provided above is only for your personal information and use and is not intended to address your particular requirements or to be relied upon in making </description><source>Interactive Investor International</source></item><item><title>Omaha Print Receives Best Workplace in the Americas Award</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96675944&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T16:05:00</pubDate><description>Management Practices, Work Environment, Training and Development Opportunities, Financial Security, Work-Life Balance, Recognition and Rewards, Health and Wellness Programs, Workplace Health and Safety. </description><source>Earthtimes.org</source></item><item><title>Experts: Full speed ahead for job search during holidays</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96673373&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T15:51:00</pubDate><description>(St. Louis Post-Dispatch - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- As friends, neighbors and family set aside a portion of the next four weeks for shopping, decorating and the other trappings </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>EAC States to Open Up Labour Markets As Part of Protocol</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96665566&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T15:24:00</pubDate><description>East African governments hope to open up all job opportunities for fair competition among the region's citizens even as concern rises that retaining national immigration laws in the signed common market </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ALONG THE ZAMBEZI RIVER BASIN</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96682658&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T17:17:00</pubDate><description>Botswana Red Cross Society (BRCS) recently launched the Zambezi River Basin Initiative, which aims to help people living along the Zambezi River Basin. The area is prone to flooding, as the river tends </description><source>The Voice</source></item><item><title>Council HR teams lack negotiation skills to deal with union unrest over public spending </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96677482&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T16:22:00</pubDate><description>Local government HR teams are lacking the right industrial relations skills to deal with potential union unrest sparked by future cuts in public spending, council HR directors have warned. The full extent </description><source>Personnel Today</source></item><item><title>EU-OSHA offers health and safety risk assessment tool</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96676241&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T16:09:00</pubDate><description>t the close of its two-year-long Healthy Workplaces Campaign on risk assessment, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) gave a preview of its free Online Risk Assessment (ORA) tool, </description><source>FMLink</source></item><item><title>OSHA offers H1N1 precautions for healthcare and other workers, employers</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96676222&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=3</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T16:08:00</pubDate><description>he U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued commonsense fact sheets that employers and workers can use to promote safety during the current H1N1 </description><source>FMLink</source></item></channel></rss>