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U.S. consumer sentiment has fallen to a more-than three-year low, with the government shutdown weighing on the economic outlook and high prices souring views about personal finances. The University of Michigan's preliminary November sentiment index dropped to 50.3, the lowest since June 2022, from 53.6 in October. A measure of current economic conditions slumped 6.3 points to a record low of 52.3, and fears about unemployment rose, with 71% of respondents expecting it to rise in the year ahead. “Consumers perceive pressure on their personal finances from multiple directions,” Joanne Hsu, director of the survey, said in a statement. “Consumers also anticipate that labor markets will continue to weaken in the future and expect to be personally affected.’’
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UK
One in six employers anticipates workforce reductions due to AI over the next year, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The CIPD's latest labour market outlook survey, involving over 2,000 employers, shows that 62% expect clerical, junior managerial, professional or administrative roles to be most affected. Large private sector firms are particularly concerned, with 26% expecting headcount reductions compared with 17% in the private sector overall and 20% in the public sector. Of the firms that expect to cut roles because of AI, a quarter said they were preparing to lose more than one in 10 staff. James Cockett, a senior labour market economist at the CIPD, said: "AI has great potential for improving productivity . . . but it also risks leaving many people behind."
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Europe
Activists have criticised proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law. EU antitrust chief Henna Virkkunen will present the Digital Omnibus, in effect a package of proposals to simplify overlapping legislation including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Artificial Intelligence Act, the e-Privacy Directive and the Data Act, on November 19. Austrian privacy group noyb commented: "The draft Digital Omnibus proposes countless changes to many different articles of the GDPR. In combination this amounts to a death by a thousand cuts." Max Schrems of noyb said: "This would be a massive downgrading of Europeans' privacy 10 years after the GDPR was adopted."
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Middle East
An Israeli Employment Service report reveals a troubling decline in labour force participation among young Israelis aged 20-29, particularly men and those in the Arab sector. Despite a low unemployment rate of 5.2% for the 15-24 age group, many young adults are neither working nor seeking jobs. Attorney Einbal Mashash, chief executive of the Employment Service, observed: "The decline in young people's employment rates occurs alongside a welcome rise in the participation of groups that were recently on the fringes of the labour market."
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Fingers remain tightly crossed around the world that the rampant hospitalization and fatality stage of the Covid-19 pandemic has generally peaked. Vaccination programmes are accelerating, and restrictions are gradually being lifted...
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ESG Is Not Just Another Name For CSR
Back in the distant 1980s if you wanted to demonstrate your environmental and ethical credentials it was sufficient to shop at or purchase shares in retailer The Body Shop. The charismatic Anita Roddick, founder of the “hippy” tinged retail chain, heralded a new age of environmental concern, caring capitalism and corporate awareness that evolved into what became known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR was much talked about and lauded, but in reality often ended up being a lot of a hot air (excuse the pun) and often never progressed much beyond a footnote in the annual report.
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Have Older Workers Paid The Highest COVID-19 Price?
Across the world the pandemic is slowly but surely moving into its next phase. Recovery beckons. As furlough schemes across the U.S. and U.K. are being wound down, restrictions eased or lifted, and workforces moving back up the gears, early signs indicate that older employees are more likely to be casualties of the pandemic aftermath than their younger colleagues. Here at the we have witnessed an increasing number of stories supporting the growing belief that older workers are disproportionately paying the highest Covid-19 price.
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So said, David Brent, the fictional manager of Slough-based paper merchant Wernham Hogg in the seminal TV comedy The Office. Ricky Gervais’s portrayal of Brent as a flawed, narcissistic, incompetent, and deluded manager was so well observed that many (including me) believed it was a genuine fly-on-the-wall documentary when they alighted accidentally on the first ever episode.
Rolling with the Payroll
To mark National Payroll Week the team at the Human Times has provided some insight into the industry that we hope you’ll find useful.
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