Outsourcing News

The government was justified in issuing a positive labour market opinion that allowed a British Columbia mining company to hire 201 temporary foreign workers from China, the Federal Court ruled Tuesday.

Mike Bloomberg, the outspoken mayor of New York City and the ultrawealthy founder of the financial data and media company that bears his name, is turning his attention to another of society's woes: the rising cost of a college education.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue has replaced its legacy control room technology with a system from Capita as part of a 10-year outsourcing contract.

Changing Together - A Centre for Immigrant Women provides classes in English language training, parenting, citizenship, family violence prevention, and computer training.

It is time for Michiganians to have a real conversation about both value and values.

The savings plan also includes multiple property sales, outsourcing legal and audit services and closing the old Manatee Technical Institute campus on 34th Street West.

Directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush Produced by Julie Goldman Starring Jeff Bridges, Raj Patel and Marion Nestle Magnolia Pictures Let's face it: The documentary is the Debbie Downer of film forms.

The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years to come.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has reached a compromise with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York on an amendment that would change the immigration bill to help large technology firms.

Forget self-deportation: It appears the feds have stumbled across a case of secret self-outsourcing at New York University.

Memphis-based FedEx Corp. is looking to outsource a significant portion of its information technology work in an effort to boost profits.

Outsourcing company iGate Corp said it had sacked its Chief Executive Phaneesh Murthy for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate after investigating one of India's best-known IT executives for sexual harassment.

I recently connected with an old FreeMarkets colleague who is running a managed services business in the sourcing services area.

ADC Biotechnology says demand for antibody drug conjugates services has skyrocketed as it receives a second financial boost to development in four months.

Union Unite has accused Aviva of betraying UK workers after it emerged that 600 of its 2,000 job cuts are actually being relocated in India.

The Metropolitan Police Service is engaging with the outsourcing industry as it targets annual government-prompted savings of A 500m from its A 3.6bn budget.

Penny Pritzker, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Commerce Department , is getting more heat from the left than from the right, as a prominent hotel workers union plans to protest her nomination this week.

Thousands of workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in East London have embarked on a strike for the first time in 24 years, reports the Daily Dispatch.

A jobless Canadian IT professional who is collecting employment insurance is upset because he now suspects several recent jobs he applied for went to temporary foreign workers.

Anti-outsourcing campaigner Maria Nash brought a judicial review over a lack of consultation on the One Barnet scheme earlier this year Core council functions including environmental health and trading standards will be taken over by private firm Capita, it was announced today.