Shortage

2023 - 1 - 14

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Resolving worker shortage quickly will keep cooking oil prices in ... (New Straits Times Online)

JOHOR BARU: The price of cooking oil is expected to remain under control if migrant worker shortages are resolved promptly, said Domestic Trade and Cost of ...

Supply, prices of cooking oil to stabilise once foreign labour ... (The Sun Daily)

JOHOR BAHRU: Cooking oil supply and pricing issues are expected to stabilise after the plantation industry players have resolved the problem over fore...

“We have also not decided to restrict egg exports as production is currently at 112 per cent. “The outcome of our meeting with the plantation sector, namely the oil palm industry players, they are willing to talk about the price and even ensure that the price could be stabilised if they get enough workers,“ he told reporters after officiating a calligraphy competition in conjunction with the Chinese New Year at Paradigm Mall here today. He said that the ministry was in the final stages of discussion about the issue with the industry players concerned and they hope to settle the problem soon.

Doctor: New Jersey's healthcare workforce shortage is getting worse ... (nj.com)

Dr. Steven Landers, president & CEO of VNA Health Group, says the No. 1 healthcare problem is and has been for some time that New Jersey doesn't have an ...

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Prices of cooking oil to stabilise once manpower issue sorted, says ... (The Star Online)

JOHOR BARU: The price and supply of cooking oil are expected to stablise once the manpower shortage issue has been resolved, says Datuk Seri Salahuddin ...

"The Cabinet aims to be able to have ample foreign manpower, especially in the construction and plantation sectors, in the next three months," he said. How useful is this article to you? "They said they are hoping for the problem to be resolved as soon as possible.

Global Staff Shortage: Where have all the people gone? (Indian NewsLink)

The global economy is suffering from serious staff shortages in almost every industry and while millions of jobs remain unfilled, workers are walking away, ...

But immigration departments in these countries are struggling to cope with the sharp rise in demand for jobs on the one hand and the thousands of applications that have piled up from potential migrant workers on the other. The backlog has now dropped to about 31,000 applications. Older workers in some countries (particularly America and Britain) took lockdowns and the risk of contracting Covid-19 as their cue to retire early. Almost all OECD countries depend on foreign labour to work in their industries, plants and offices. During the pandemic, record numbers of people left the workforce altogether, making it harder to recruit staff; others took the opportunity to switch jobs, making it harder to retain staff,” it said. The worldwide staffing shortage has had one of its worst impacts on the American economy.

Shearing worker shortage leads to sheep crutching invention at ... (ABC News)

When Ben Banks couldn't find a shearing team to work on his Queensland property, he got creative and built a crutching trailer that lets him do the job ...

"There's still a few little things we want to change ... "We need to put a lot more time and money into innovation and get with the times." From the shed, they found a new home on the back of a trailer where they were able to tweak the layout and operation of the machines. "We've got the machine now, we've got the skills, we don't need to rely on anyone else if we don't have to." "We don't have the worries a lot of other producers are having at the moment with getting shearers and crutchers," Mr Banks said. "We've got to move with the technology," Mr Mohr said.