28 November 2011 Dublin-based online recruitment company Saongroup.com has reported an increase in profits for last year. It made a pre-tax profit of 2.8m, up from 2.6m in 2009, as revenue jumped by around 30% to 29.7m. Saongroup.com, which is owned by Denis OBrien, owns Irishjobs.ie in Ireland and has operations in 17 countries. The company says it will be focusing on China in the next few years. It was operating in 20 Chinese cities by the end of last year, and plans to expand this number to 100 by the end of 2012. It also expanded its busines......[查看详情]

With his lawsuit now 11 months old, fired Macau casino CEO Steven Jacobs is now trying to pry extensive amounts of information from his former employer Sands China Ltd. and its parent Las Vegas Sands Corp. Jacobs filed suit in state court in Nevada in October 2010 charging he had been wrongfully denied stock options when he was wrongly fired in July 2010 as CEO of Sands China. To understand the significance of his dismissal, consider this: Sands China, as a standalone business, is one of the worlds largest casino operators. It generated revenue ......[查看详情]

The Peoples National Party (PNP) recognises that we have an economic emergency. At its conference last weekend, it made proposals to deal with it. It recognises that there is a job emergency; a production emergency; and an emergency of living standards and upward social mobility. It wants to be the government to deal with them. There is an unemployment emergency. Almost 100,000 persons have lost their jobs over four years. There is a production emergency. Exports are down from US$2.8 billion in 2007 to US$1.3 billion last year. Foreign direct in......[查看详情]

Co-blogger Steve Dickinson wrote an email to a client the other day that nicely sets forth much of what is involved with China employment agreements and with China employee manuals. Steve sent this email after having completed the first draft of the clients employment contracts and its employee manual, both of which documents are absolutely essential for any company with an employee (foreign or domestic) in China. Here is that e-mail: We revised these documents to as closely as possible accord with the type of employment you will have in your Ch......[查看详情]

September 25, 2011 The Peoples National Party (PNP) recognises that we have an economic emergency. At its conference last weekend, it made proposals to deal with it. It recognises that there is a job emergency; a production emergency; and an emergency of living standards and upward social mobility. It wants to be the government to deal with them. There is an unemployment emergency. Almost 100,000 persons have lost their jobs over four years. There is a production emergency. Exports are down from US$2.8 billion in 2007 to US$1.3 billion last year......[查看详情]

SHANGHAI - HSBC Holdings PLC said on Tuesday that it will continue to hire and invest in China, despite plans to cut tens of thousands of employee worldwide. Europes biggest bank said on Monday it will eliminate 30,000 jobs by the end of 2013, or about 10 percent of staff, to rein in salary costs, while hiring more people in emerging markets. Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer Peter Wong told reporters in Shanghai that there would not be lay-offs in China, which the bank sees as one of its high-growth markets. Chinas a strategically important ......[查看详情]