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...The topic entitled “The pessimistic situation of recruitment in the IC [integrated circuit] industry” has received more than 1mn views on Zhihu, a question-and-answer website in China....
...Only 15 per cent of the 2mn people who came to Britain over the past five years came on a skilled worker visa....
...This is bad for businesses, workers and consumers. Take free trade and industrial policy....
...The ICS, together with 30 other organisations, wrote last month to UN secretary-general António Guterres to try to publicise their plight and push for a negotiated solution that could help them leave safely...
...At the UN, people were slammed together in the elevators and the pandemic was not a core part of the debate.”...
...China indeed increased local chip production — to 16.7 per cent of its domestic needs in 2021 from 12.7 per cent a decade before, IC Insights data show....
...“If our workers can’t pass through international borders, this will undoubtedly cause delays and disruptions in the supply chain,” he said....
...TowerBrook, which declined to comment, announced it had sold ICS in September. ICS also declined to comment....
...The squeeze has not so far led to any shortages in the supply of laptops and TVs, which rely on the IC chips (DDI) used to power electronics displays....
...were paid GBP3.50 per hour by these suppliers versus the UK National Living Wage of GBP8.20-8.72 for workers aged 21 or over....
...Tariff-ic On Friday, China and the US took another step closer to launching a trade war as the US unveiled tariffs on $50bn on imports with China promising retaliation in kind....
...Harriet Russell is the sectors editor of the Investors Chronicle; harriet.russell@ft.com; Twitter @IC_HRussell...
...In his designer showroom at Beijing’s Workers Stadium, Mr James ticks through a catalogue of mishaps, big and small, with typical British understatement....
...Until then, they’re still working out how to navigate the flat management structure, where they each rotate through the various roles of the shop, from lead mechanic, to sales rep, to what they call the “IC...
...The unemployed, who have had their benefits cut, workers earning the minimum wage of €485 a month and elderly people receiving state pensions of even less, find it increasingly difficult to make ends meet...
...Pulse, which has 4,000 staff and makes £170m of revenues, is to be merged with ICS, a rival healthcare recruitment agency Blackstone bought for £130m in June....
...Blackstone is in talks to acquire Pulse, the staffing agency for doctors, nurses and social workers, as part of the US private equity group’s plan to consolidate the politically sensitive niche of the UK...
...Within the United States, workers in metropolitan areas with big cities earn 30 percent more than workers who aren’t in metropolitan areas....
...The US nursing and teaching professions in the US face a similar demographic crunch, as do aerospace and utilities companies....
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