Five million Germans out of work
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Germany's jobless figure rises above five million, with unemployment now at its highest level since the 1930s.
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Five years ago, France joined Europe's largest nations in a radical experiment: to try to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and improve the quality of life by having existing employees work shorter ...
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During much of Germany&#39;s postwar economic boom, as prosperity mounted and car sales multiplied, workers at the Opel automobile factory here
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Germany said Tuesday U.S. plans to pull out 30,000 troops were a sign Europe's divisions had healed, but communities hit by the decision warned they were headed for economic disaster.
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Germany's unemployment rate dropped to 9.6 percent in November as the number of people out of work fell below 4 million for the first time in more than four years _ the latest evidence of a gathering recovery ...Comment
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Upset over the loss of 2,300 jobs in Germany, 15,000 local residents have staged a street demonstration over Nokia's plans to shut down its factory there. Now German leaders are considering taking back a huge Nokia subsidy.
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Business confidence in Germany, Europe&#39;s largest economy, fell to its lowest level in more than a year in November as the euro&#39;s climb to a record high against the dollar threatened exports and unemployment at a five-year high crimped consumer spending
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BERLIN Germany&#39;s unemployment rate rose in November to a six-year high, the government said Thursday, as Bayer and other companies announced job cuts.
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Small German firms follow phone giant Siemens by pushing for five more hours per week - without pay.
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The number of people looking for work in Germany has risen to its highest level in seven years as bad weather and sluggish growth caused dole queues to swell at the end of last year.
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The number of unemployed rose by 12,000 last month and economists say there will be more than five million job seekers in Germany by early next year.
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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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With jobs scarce, the economy stagnant and cherished social programs chopped, a surprising number of Germans have reached the same conclusion: that 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall became an ...
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German economic growth will slow next year as foreign demand for goods and services cools and unemployment at a five-year high damps consumer spending, the country&#39;s six leading economic research institutes said.
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The number of jobless Germans fell below four million for the first time in four years in November, figures show.
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Deep in the heart of Germany&#39;s Ruhr Valley, a column of 25,000 angry blue-collar workers and their families has taken to the streets of Bochum, waving banners and red union flags, beating drums and blowing whistles.
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Struggling German retailer KarstadtQuelle on Thursday agreed with employee representatives on a cost-cutting plan that will include eliminating some 5,500 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force, and a three-year pay freeze.