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A former Apple Inc employee pleaded guilty to multiple criminal counts after being accused of taking kickbacks from Asian suppliers. Paul Devine, who worked at the iPhone maker as a global supply manager, was accused of using his position to pass confidential information to help suppliers negotiate favorable contracts with Apple.

An Islamist who worked as a British Airways computer expert was found guilty on Monday of plotting with a radical cleric to blow up a plane bound for the United States.

Japan's jobless rate held steady in January and the availability of jobs improved to a two-year high, adding to growing signs the economy is gradually recovering from stagnation. Household spending marked its fourth straight month of annual declines in January but the pace of the fall slowed from December, suggesting that improvements

An investigation by U.S. immigration officials into illegal unemployment at Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG.N) is making some investors nervous and could have implications for the fast-food industry as a whole. Chipotle, based in Denver, is one of the highest-profile employers to come under the scrutiny of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent years.

Cuban President Raul Castro has admitted that plans to lay off 500,000 state workers by March are behind schedule and that the process will be delayed to help soften the impact of the cuts, state-run television said on Monday. The layoffs are a centerpiece of his reforms to modernize Cuba's Soviet-style economy, but the report said Castro told

The Wisconsin State Employees Union (WSEU) accused new Republican Gov. Scott Walker of unfair labor practices for refusing to bargain in a complaint filed Monday with a state employment commission. The legal challenge comes amid a standoff between Walker and state legislative Democrats over a proposal to limit bargaining rights

Borrowing by small U.S. businesses rose in January from the prior year, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed, but fell compared to December, underscoring the recovery's slow slog. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to U.S. small businesses, rose 14 percent

Transocean Ltd (RIGN.VX), the world's largest offshore rig contractor, shrunk its work force by 6 percent last year as increased competition for shallow-water rigs led to more older rigs being set aside.

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Nordic telecoms company TeliaSonera (TLS1V.HE)(TLSN.ST) said on Thursday it will begin lay-off talks in Finland and estimates some 200 jobs might be cut.

Mexico's unemployment rate, adjusted for seasonal swings, fell to 5.23 percent in January from 5.55 percent the previous month, aided by a recovery in Latin America's second largest economy, official data showed.

Manhattan lost nearly 110,000 jobs from 2000 to 2009 while its outer boroughs were gaining jobs, thanks to the growth of two sectors, education and healthcare, a think tank's report said on Wednesday.

A former public relations employee has sued Publicis Groupe SA for $100 million, saying the French advertising company discriminates against women in pay and promotions. Women make up 70 percent of the company's public relations staff but hold only about 15 percent of leadership positions, the lawsuit says.

Herbicide demand in India is rising sharply and could double in the next three years as an acute labour shortage makes them a cheaper option and a rally in farm goods prices prompts farmers to grow crops with extra care. Sales of herbicides could touch 24 billion rupees ($530 million) by March 2014, industry officials and analysts said

Jobless claims fell more than expected last week, dragging down a closely watched moving average to a more than 2-1/2-year low in a sign the labor market was gradually healing.

The non-partisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday the economic stimulus plan enacted in 2009 boosted U.S. employment by as much as 3.5 million people in the final quarter of last year. The report said the cost of the economic program enacted by the then Democratic-controlled Congress and signed into law

Swiss employment rose further in the fourth quarter, spurred by new manufacturing jobs, and was set to increase more in 2011, a boon to consumer spending. Swiss non-farm payrolls rose 1.2 percent year-on-year to 4.085 million, the Federal Statistics

In the process of picking up the pieces of his own broken heart, Thomas Edwards stumbled upon a business helping others fix their love lives. After a college romance ended badly, Edwards' confidence tanked and his social life disappeared.

She did it for love, a designer handbag and shoes. Bonnie Hoxie, a former Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) executive's secretary, told a federal judge on Tuesday she was blindsided by love and did not make the correct choices in giving confidential company information to her then-boyfriend a year ago.

Most Americans oppose laws that would take away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, as in a proposal in Wisconsin that has sparked mass protests, as well as Ohio and other states, according to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released on Wednesday.

The head of General Motors Co's (GM.N) Brazilian unit, Denise Johnson, has stepped down after just eight months on the job, the company said. Johnson's resignation, announced on Tuesday, comes amid a decline in GM's market share in Brazil.

Althea Norwood Roberts gives employers three months to turn her temporary job into a permanent one. Then she looks elsewhere. That's as long as a company needs to see if she's a good fit, the 35-year old single mother from California believes.

Obama, with much of his Cabinet in tow, visited Ohio on Tuesday to try to reach out to U.S. entrepreneurs amid complaints from some small business owners that his policies inhibit growth. We're here to hear from you directly. We want your stories, your successes, your failures,

Hundreds of people rallied in Boise and ten other Idaho cities on Monday to protest a plan by the state's schools chief to lay off hundreds of teachers and curtail their collective bargaining. Russ Chinske, head of the teachers union in the central Idaho town of Salmon, said it was wrong to strip teachers

Medtronic Inc (MDT.N) cut its full-year earnings forecast, hampered by weakness in key medical device markets, and said it would eliminate up to 2,000 jobs, sending its shares down 2 percent. The world's largest medical device maker has struggled with slow sales as patients postponed treatments in the global

A majority of Swedish banks and financial firms are in breach of rules on bonuses, the Nordic country's market watchdog said on Monday. A study by Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority (FI) showed the bonus systems at more than half of the 41 financial institutions examined did not live up to rules

Spain's new immigration bill will adjust the inflow of migrant workers to the demands of the job market in the new economic cycle, Secretary of State for Immigration Anna Terron said. The demise of an economic model based on a decade-long construction and property boom which attracted a wave of South American

Public sector workers in West Virginia, in support of public employee protests in Wisconsin, will rally to demand better pay and improved working conditions, a union spokesman said on Sunday. Union members will demonstrate on Monday in the state capital and wear red bandannas to support Wisconsin workers

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