Germany Offers Unemployed Workers Jobs at $1.99/hour
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After 10 months of unsuccessful job  applications, Christian Noelte accepted a position paying 1.50  euros ($1.99) an hour.
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The ranks of the unemployed in Germany increased in October for the ninth straight month, the Federal Labour Agency said today in a report that threatened government efforts to shrink the public deficit.
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Selling high-wage Germany to outside investors isn't an easy job these days. Unless, curiously enough, the foreign business executives come from low-wage China.
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They came, they spoke and they went home. It appears German unions may have won some concessions in terms of job cuts.Comment
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The current economic boom in Germany enabled Europe&#39;s biggest economy to hold its jobless rate at the lowest level for six years this month, data showed on Thursday.
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The number of people looking for work in Germany, the biggest eurozone economy, fell by about 90,000 to 4.257 million -- or 10.3 percent of the workforce -- in September, the Federal Labour Agency announced.
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German unemployment unexpectedly rose in May breaking a run of 13 consecutive monthly falls.
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Shift in the U.S. workforce is no longer just about factory workers.  All kinds of jobs that pay middle range -- $17 an hour, or about $35,000 a year -- are vanishing.
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Tough economic times in Germany have made Linux and other open source software products appear tantalizing to local businesses.
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A solid economic recovery cut the German jobless rate in August to 8.8 percent, official data showed Thursday, and some analysts said unemployment could continue to drop if market turmoil did not hobble growth.
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Germany's sweeping welfare reforms went  into effect without a hitch Monday as labor offices cut  payments for a million jobless and qualifying tests got  tougher.
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Around 3,200 workers at Volkswagen's   VOWG.DE core VW business in Germany have accepted voluntary   redundancy packages that Europe's biggest carmaker is offering   to prune labor costs, the company said on Wednesday.
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More than 90,000 people, according to organisers, hit the streets of several German cities Monday to protest looming cuts in unemployment benefits, continuing a series of weekly protests against government reforms.
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France&#39;s prime minister has announced plans to let workers negotiate workweeks that exceed the current 35-hour limit. Jean-Pierre Raffarin also vowed to cut the current 9.9 percent unemployment rate by a 0.1
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Germany's long-term unemployed are looking for ways to cut their outgoings as they brace for the introduction of reforms on Saturday that will slash the welfare payments of many.
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This is a near perfect solution for Internet users in Germany. With a lot of competition for subscribers, T-Online customers can have a DSL line for â¬3.99 per month.
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FRANKFURT The terms were stark: Work five more hours a week - without pay - in exchange for not moving thousands of jobs to Hungary.