Skills crisis puts networks 'at risk'
Australia is losing the ability to build roads and bridges, with a worsening skills crisis resulting in a shortfall of more than 28,000 engineering jobs in road construction,
Florida Still Losing Ground In Wages Despite Uptick In Jobs
The drop in Florida unemployment masks a troubling trend: The new jobs continue to pay far less than the ones that have been lost.
500 jobs lost at engineering firm
Around 500 construction jobs will be lost after a civil engineering firm went into administration. Harte Construction, which has been based in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, since 1974 and employs more than 700 people across Scotland, blamed a decline in the construction market for its collapse.
351 Sindri techies land jobs
The highest package of Rs 8 lakh per annum had been offered by Tata Steel for a mining engineering student. Tata Telecon on the other hand offered a package of Rs 7.3 lakh per annum to three BTech students ' one each of mechanical, electrical and production engineering.
Shipdham-based BAM Nuttall given civil engineering contract for King’s Lynn incinerator
An Anglo-US waste consortium hoping to build a controversial incinerator on the edge of King’s Lynn has awarded a civil engineering contract for the scheme, it was announced today.
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500 jobs go at construction firm
About 500 construction jobs are to go with the collapse of WJ Harte, a civil engineering company based in South Lanarkshire.
Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers
As this screen shot suggests, American engineers are seething over the loss of jobs to foreign — mostly Indian — workers. American computer professionals who complain that they lose jobs or get lower pay because of imported tech workers may have reason to smile.
Construction unemployment rises to 17.7 percent
Despite the addition of 21,000 jobs during January, the nation's construction industry unemployment rate jumped to 17.7 percent, up from 16 percent the previous month, according to U.S. Labor Department. However, construction employment is up by 116,000 jobs, or 2.1 percent, compared to January 2011, and is down from the 22.5 percent rate posted the same time last year.The nonresidential ...
Obama touts low-wage tourism jobs, nixes high-wage energy jobs
A day after President Barack Obama nixed up to 20,000 high-wage Keystone XL pipeline construction jobs, he flew down to Florida to tout his support for low-wage tourism jobs.