I have applied for & got a new job. I phoned my boss & told her that the new company would be asking her for a reference. I have not actually handed in my notice yet though. I’ve since been told that I am going to be made redundant so would like to stay to get my lump sum payment. Can I do that? can my company sack me? UK answers only please.

Not very discreet to take a new job before handing in the notice at your old one. Redundancy lump sums are only given to those who have worked for the employer for a number of years

I’m considering goeeting the Sims3 Ambitions Expansion Pack (because I love the Sims! <3) but I want to know what all the jobs are. Every website only tells you like 5 or 6 of them but I want to know it all! So if any of you have that game please tell me!

First, understand the difference between Careers and Professions. You are not able to go to attend to your Sim if they are in a Career, but the Professions are fully playable.

The Professions are Architectural Designer, Firefighter, Ghosthunter, Investigator and Stylist.

The only new Career is Education, but the Medicine career track has been expanded.

You also have the option to register your Sim as Self-Employed at the Town Hall. For more information on Self-Employing your Sims, read this article: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Skill_career

Increasing technology has created new jobs in Central and South America since the 1950s. The result is that

A. the region’s economy focuses more on agriculture.
B. the region’s population has shifted to cities.
C. the region’s economy has decreased overall.
D. the region’s population has shifted to rural areas.

B. the region’s population has shifted to cities.

I don’t see how the 31,000 Private Sector jobs could be taxed enough to cover the cost of another 260,000 entry level bureaucrats.

It looks like another 2 or 3 Billion in deficit spending to me.

Athens !

how many new jobs have to be created each month to keep unemployment from increase, if the labor force is growing by 1.5 percent per year

Spotty J is close but not quite right. The question states that the labor force is growing by 1.5%, and if we don’t want unemployment to increase, job creation needs to keep pace with labor force growth. Because labor force = employed + unemployed (but looking for work), this number is greater than the number of jobs, assuming unemployment is not 0.

so, number of jobs created each month must equal the size of the labor force today, times 1.5% raised to the power of however many years in the future you are looking, and then divided by 12, because we are comparing monthly job creation to yearly population growth. or-

Jobs created = (Labor force(0.015^year)/12)

remember, that equation is only for the amount of jobs you need to create. The total amount of jobs needed each year is different. That will be-

Jobs = (Labor force((1.015)^year))

Because it would be kinda stupid if the adults are the only ones that get new jobs.

yea teens can always get a job even in college

How likely is that to happen?

Where will the next generations jobs come from?

What if they don’t?

Not likely.

Who knows?

We’re screwed.

Why would they create 150k new jobs in the US when they can just keep outsourcing jobs due to deregulation? I mean they aren’t in it for the people of this country, it’s capitalism, profit matters, nothing else.

During the end of last year they said any drop in unemployment was due to temporary Holiday hiring.
Now they are saying new jobs are all government and census jobs.

In a couple of months will they say it is just due to summer and resort and amusement parks opening up?

If job growth is up in October just before elections will they attribute it to halloween and pumpkin sales?

When sustained job growth occurs later this year or next year (assuming Congress is still majority Democrats next year), the conservative Republicans will focus on other things they believe will resonate with most people. Things such as foreign policy, the national debt, any scandals that may occur, any missteps in the war on terrorism, etc.

Sometimes, the best denial mechanism is complete diversion: "Don’t look here… Look there!"

Supplement:

If, however, the Republicans win the majority of Congressional offices in November ‘10, and the economy and jobs happen to recover around the holidays with sustained growth throughout 2011, guess what? You know it! The Republicans will then take credit for a process that had been initiated during the two years prior to their regaining a Congressional majority.

The best way to have a chance at differentiating events of 2011 as being either Republican or Democratically spawned, would be to allow Democratic members of Congress to stay their course by re-electing them in November 2010. That way, good or bad, we’ll know to just which party the credit should go.

The federal government is in debt.

So how in the world are they going to pay these 17,000 gestapo IRS agents and 159 new government agencies (salaries starting at $64,000)? I also heard on Marxist Socialist Network Broadcasting Company (MSNBC) that 160,000 new government jobs have just been created. HOW CAN WE AFFORD THIS??

There are no 17000 jobs.

That’s all wingnut propaganda. See http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/irs-expansion/
and "just for kicks, let’s track how an estimate becomes spin becomes a lie becomes a sound bite" http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/will_the_irs_need_16000_new_ag.html "Not just anyone could pack four falsehoods into 13 words…"

It is amusing to watch the wingnuts slowly inflate the numbers though. Google health care reform 12000 IRS jobs and you get 16700 hits.

Try it again with 13000 jobs, 14000, 15000, 16000, 17000 18000 19000 20000.

Wingnuts have tried to spread all those different lies. Nobody has tried to tell the lie with 21000 though — here’s your chance to be original!!
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I know… This question sounds kind of obvious, but I was wondering if it created jobs for those looking into their respective Civil Service Commission. If so, will it be broad-based or narrowed down specifically to the health care field?

It will force the creation of dozens of new government agencies.

Guess whose grandkids will be paying for all this over 75 years from now?