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Travel agents and other travel companies who hire people to book travel is more difficult than ever to find qualified candidates, the good news for the home independent agents who are considering a transition to full-time employment staff.
to encourage travel companies open applications, and even agents home and even if they work at home, said Doug Walsh, Director of Sales and Marketing Travel Hot Jobs, a company of employment in industry.
"What I see ... my latest research [travel behavior] is that they had someone to hire less experienced or [less] skills" because of the shortage of qualified candidates, Walsh said.
"I think the Home Agents are the Cat's Meow at this time, as they have a travel booking experience."
For several years, ASTA and other industry groups have against future lack of funds, such as the generation of baby boomers retire warned officers. Travel schools that have produced a generation of travel agencies, the closing of the previously reliable pipeline for the job closed. Therefore, the lack of funds is now very real and a deterioration of the month following Walsh.
"It is the market for a candidate," he said. Employers seek two businesses and tourists, and many who do not meet the requirements, there are now willing to employ agents working from home for years, he said.
"" Virtual desktops "has become a term that is used all the time [employer]. In the past, you had to work in an office, but harder to find than people [companies] to take a virtual agent. This on the side of the business "is especially true.
Walsh said housing agents in the course of his career have been independent, and relatively new to the industry are candidates for open employment agencies.
"They have a good number of local agents, as [Large home agencies] that have thousands of members of such funds. That's where the seeds grow [new officers]."
He added: "I see want the agent origin CV [] ... come to work for someone who came alone to feel, and the benefits to be important for some Medicare, holidays, paid 401k and teeth.".
Adopting a style immigration system Australia could "our economy grow," David Cameron has warned told by three major conservative activists Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union, they are based on points in favor of an immigration policy were, when the voices of the Kingdom UK, the EU to leave.
George Osborne, the Chancellor, also marked the promise of a points system "fantasy politics" would result in net migration to an increase.
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove Priti Patel, who all sat in the core policy, or cabinet, said in a joint statement on Tuesday its support for an immigration system "is based on real points of the Australian style. .. Automatic right of all EU citizens live and work UK will end ".
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stay activists, said the plan would be economically disastrous and could also result in a higher net migration. "Australia has a migration per capita than we do here in the UK, so I think that the wrong approach is," the Prime Minister told BBC Radio 5 Live.
British citizens are equally disadvantaged, he said. "I also believe that when we say the Europeans, they need a work permit to Britain to come to European countries tell us that we need permission to work, to work," she added DIT.
"So we have not only crash our economy, we would also have the option as to work by reducing in other countries."
During a visit to a logistics company in Harlow, Essex, Osborne rejects the proposal to leave the country with the prediction of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, warned of a "substantial" hit the British and world economy if UK growth rate to end.
"What left a contrast between now the country with his policy of fantasy, unrealistic proposals to increase immigration, which remain outside the Single Market and will cost us jobs and checking the reality in the real world, respect OECD, the highlights bleak economic future for Britain outside the EU, "he said.
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"He says that the threat of the EU economy to leave and the slowdown in the UK and that the success of the people's livelihood is very negative if we dial out."
It is at the audacity of the proposed cabinet members is growing concern that promote Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union. Downing Street sources dismiss credit policy license, calling them "completely unworkable" and added: ". Above all, it is not in their power to implement them"
But she insisted that the government could still apply after 23 June: "It is important that we get together after we have a great program opportunities in life, learning, prison reform.".
Stephen Booth, director of the free market reflection Open Europe, which contains a detailed analysis of options for Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union Analysis, a government said a trade agreement with the EU to negotiate try that would not include the free movement boundaries accept access to European markets.
"It is an attempt of the trade," he said, stressing that Norway and Switzerland, showing not members vote license to accept a large number of EU citizens. "Maybe if the United Kingdom would be different, but Voto Let have to explain why this is the case," he said.
Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary, Gove and Johnson said "in full UKIP" with his immigration were proposed. "When we introduced a point system with the EU, the terms of our trade agreements with them would be ruinous", the candidate for mayor of Manchester, said.
Nigel Farage, UKIP leader, consisting Disagree part of the official campaign, said the position taken by Johnson, Patel Gove was justification for UKIP. "Everything I said about immigration, for which he was sentenced, now is public. Now, I think we win this referendum," he wrote.
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Gisela Stuart, the co-president of labor leave voting said Osborne commitment net migration to reduce to tens of thousands was "genuine political imagination", when the United Kingdom in the EU remains.
"The reality for the British people, if we stay in that is Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey - with a total population of 88 million -. Everything will soon join the EU, if they do, the migration from the EU in the UK could increase 5 billion dollars, "he said.
Britain has been a point system for non-EU immigrants, skilled migration style outside Europe to 20,700 per year. Since April skilled workers can not be manufactured in the UK, unless they earn £ 35,000 per year or more. Militant leave the extension of this system on migrants in the EU to propose, although the joint statement said Tuesday that the Irish people would not be affected.
One of the strongest advocates of immigration control, showing migration in Britain has previously entered into a point system would be ineffective, and that the control of sealed borders of Australia is not related to how they qualify to vote migrants.
"The relationship of Australia could not be more different," found the Migration Report 2014 "Many Australians believe that they are dealing with a strategic need for the development and the space to do so. In the UK we face geographical and political conditions quite different . "
faced in a system bribes, kickbacks and incorrect practices of lead emissions to reduce a former head of a housing nonprofit Cleveland and two businessmen federal criminal charges where a number of houses, according to prosecutors - CLEVELAND, Ohio.
James Todt, 49, of Brecksville; Lizandro Orellana, 56, of Cleveland; Chris Peterson, 42, Macedonia and Modern Construction Group LLC were charged each with criminal information Thursday in District Court of the United States.
Todt worked for nine years in the housing Cleveland Network, an umbrella non-profit organization consisting of 15 municipalities development company in the city. He was responsible for contractors and project managers, and for working on different projects will be awarded, according to reports.
He left the organization in the year, 2014.
Orellana has Modern Construction Group, and Peterson has the first-class design.
Todt examined more than 30,000 $ in bribes and handyman Orellana Peterson and 2009-2014, the report said. In return, he led Cleveland Housing Network contracts to their businesses.
Orellana made home improvements Todt, and Peterson paid up to $ 10,000. In return Todt the way open contracts, the report said.
Todd was also Orellana internal network cost of housing projects planned and modern construction Orellana used for contracts to provide, say court records.
Orellana also someone paid in November 2012 at home Brecksville Todt to $ 3,650 in electrical work, the report said.
In October sent to build six modern Orellana employees a bridge over Todt house and told employees to install seven windows, according to reports. The work was valued at $ 8.736.
Peterson repaired the roof of a house in Seven Hills belonging to one of the parents Todt in 2012 and a rent in Brecksville Todt has been repaired, according to reports.
Todt also submitted false invoices and deposited two checks $ 15,280 in his personal account in the amount of, according to reports.
Orellana is also associated with the faulty work charged lead emissions to reduce network between 2010 and 2012. from the different characteristics of the housing.
Orellana said staff houses included, the reduction process in the lead paint contain elements and components to remove lead paint gutting and without connection to save time, the report said. These employees are not entitled to this kind of work to do, according to reports.
Todt, Orellana and Peterson are each received with conspiracy to bribery in relation to programs to commit federal funds.
Todt is accused received by theft through programs federal funds.
Orellana and modern construction are any violations of requirements of the state program allows lead-based paint.
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Syracuse, NY - Salt Quarters Crew Near West Side of Syracuse as doctors, all lined in white coat sewn by their names but are artists ..
The handful of members of the community who were from Salt Quarters Resident Artist Patty Ortiz only people who need a job before there are a few weeks. They saw the ad and responded with little idea of what they would do.
The announcement explains: They were in uniform to beat a clock that would be paid. And create art.
The exhibition "The work will not kill you" is based on a parent says Ortiz, now 94, continues to grow.
She returned to something like a child lying on the couch, and she was too tired to do more. "The work does not kill him," he had said. Laziness, however.
Ortiz father who is still alive and still is known to be mounted on the roof to repair something that started as a migrant worker in San Antonio. He was a welder who has ever pushed a second job so that their children could have extras such as music lessons.
Ortiz wanted to use art and examine real workers what it means that people work - as they do and how they feel.
Ortiz, whose work has been exhibited around the world, initially made the exhibition "The work will not kill you" in San Antonio, where he is from. There workers who participated and uniforms again stitched together as a protection for themselves was adjusted.
In Syracuse the workers Ortiz have something to say in the streets of the West Side to people in your neighborhood and what it means for them. Art pictures were taken and people. Then they were put together as a showpiece, is connected to a card at Salt Quarters Wyoming.
They do their job, they met people and talked about the community. And that change for their community realized only together comes home from work, Ortiz said. They met with artists in the community, including a human, "why" had painted on a wall near one of the poorest housing projects in the city. A worker, Ian Funderburg even broke a fight between two boys while they take pictures.
None of the workers had before the art project to achieve a steady job. Most were interested in the higher bid than the minimum to an art paid wage. But everyone will take something different when their time working to end.
Morgan Williams helped his wife with their daily activities during the day. WWKY the project offered the opportunity to make some extra money while a little get, well, peace, he said.
Maryanne McClusky just moved to the West Side of Cincinnati. She needs work, but the work is often anxiety in the past. The revision work through art helped him feel more confident to work elsewhere in the future, he said. And she has learned a lot about their new living area on the street to talk to people.
59. Brian Hammons is a break from the physical work usually takes often expected. "I did work backbreaking," he said. He thought that this was to install more of the same, building might be things or. But instead he found himself in the West Side hike, talk to people, to make their photos, and thinking about how he and the others could transform their discoveries in the art.
"I am pleasantly surprised," Hammons said.
When she started, the exhibition space was empty in Salt Quarters and white. Well, that's full of life and color. Art. "It was nice to look at this flower," Hammons said.
The group worked the colored dots on a huge printing paste that combines the characters of "The Magician" and "The Wizard of Oz".
In a way, laughs the work of the series Ortiz at the stupidity of some jobs and work structures.
People are sad, often caught as its work in accordance that the purpose of his work forgotten. Give workers the task of sticking points has become a metaphor for something of this unconsciousness on a wall, is his own thing the team of people, mainly in two poor neighborhoods of Syracuse, work together to do something about the importance and beauty.
"Then there was something important," said Ortiz.
"The work will not kill" Salt Quarters will be open until June 17. The gallery exhibition, at 301 Wyoming St. in Syracuse, is open from Tuesday to Saturday 13: 00-18: 00
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Penney also said today that same-store sales rose May after sales results for the first quarter and many clothing stores reported disappointing to April.
The loan was a lifesaver former CEO Mike Ullman Penney negotiated when he had the company burned to the company in 2013, again on their money in the attempt of former CEO Ron Johnson invented the new department store.
Refinancing is a certain pressure Penney off balance. The loan was scheduled for May 2018. Penney said in a federal filing that the loan is collateral with a total value of $ 3.1 billion certain properties. The assets include 285 department stores JC Penney specialization $ 2,625 million nine centers distribution on $ 483 million estimated.
Penney said that it plans to around 400 million to reduce debt $ again this year. Part of this increase will come from the sale of real estate. It should be checked in the process of tenders for the sale of its headquarters in Plano. Penney plans to lease back about 60 percent of the space for the 3,000 employees in the home office.
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Riad guide-Saudi Arabia accepted the challenge, the kingdom of its dependence on oil weaning. Ahmed Ameen's just trying to keep their mobile phone shop open.
Mr. Amin hired a foreign worker to the store in the capital of Saudi Arabia through four months, but the worker has left the kingdom after they learned that an essential part of the economic strategy of the government is to replace foreign workers Saudis.
"My shop is closed and every day to lose money," Ameen, who has a job and can not even work said.
The ambitious goal of the management that the Kingdom is a Vision Statement in April, and a more detailed plan provided that seems far from small business struggles to Mr. Amin be used in phases in the days. But they are part of the same challenge: to reduce the large petro state of the world.
King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud an octogenarian who was the last son of the founder of the modern kingdom, to rule the country, concentrated unprecedented power in his own son 30 years Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The representative of the Crown Prince, and secondarily to the throne, directs all economic and domestic policy, and the country's army. Prince Mohammed has in turn a historic effort launched the conservative change quickly combines aversion remake.
"The younger generation really does," said Jean François Seznac, a professor at Georgetown University who studies the economy in the Persian Gulf. "It is their representative."
The challenge is immense. Since oil was discovered in 1938, the kingdom of the economic structures par excellence of the oil age has become. The billion barrels of crude oil is pumped and around the world have the politics and economics sold in fact the essence of society in a way formed that could be very painful to cancel.
Saudi citizens enjoy very low fuel, water and electricity. The housing is subsidized. Your doctor will be paid by the government, such as education, including relays study abroad. You are not taxed. The companies were not dependent on cheap energy and easy access to cheap labor.
In return, the country's royal family has a docile population continues its leadership planned.
But the social pact is broken and the fall not only because of oil prices. Demographic petro killing. In 2030 the number of Saudis is more than 15 years probably to about six million, the increase and at least 4.5 million new skilled labor workers even more if women begin to work more, many, according to a study by the McKinsey Global institutions. The group of independent experts associated with the company McKinsey & Co., presented the consulting firm Management Saudi government cause economic contribution to help.
This is more than twice as large as the adult population, which simultaneously covers the cradle to the grave of the documents of the kingdom system and is the breaking point, while creating almost three times more jobs demand as the country generated during the height of the last oil boom between 2003 -2013, McKinsey said.
In response, the government plans a wide diversification of the economy on oil exports. the new leadership of Saudi Arabia plans to privatize chunks of numerous public companies, to start with a contribution of up to 5% of the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. colossal national oil company Aramco better known. Also on the table: the aggressive expansion in refined products with high added value, such as gasoline and petrochemicals, the development of the tourism industry and the construction of a production base.
Government officials declined interview requests.
Since the contours express complaints publicly, appear segments of Saudi society. clerical ultraconservative kingdom class, long by a river of oil money sated its privileged place in the Saudi society to finance Chafe about the government's efforts to increase the participation of women in the public workplace. "We are sad to see a co-worker in men," Abdullah al-Dawood, a conservative writer, said on Twitter in March.
Companies supported for decades by massive imports of cheap foreign workers billion and the government subsidizes, such as energy, the new requirements of the coil to replace workers with Saudis and expensive labor, provide a more competitive market inputs.
Also part of the actual network have grown by a growing family of about 5,000 princes decades uncomfortable with the priority of the plan in a competitive economy to create based on the market to provide the compounds to replace and nepotism were the pillars of petro state, experts say. Last fall two anonymous open letters attributed to a Saudi prince published dissatisfaction step down with the latest changes and ask the King to express.
"It's a new paradigm. We are breaking new ground," Hossein Shobokshi, a businessman and commentator based in Jeddah, at a meeting of the financial and business leaders at a recent conference of Euro Money encouraged.
A key challenge is not only to create jobs in the private sector, but also to convince young people to these jobs.
This is particularly important, but also particularly difficult in areas such as retail. Jobs in sales, repair and management of low level for a long time been occupied by foreign workers that are cheap and willing to work long hours. the Saudi government sends home workers, and to try to encourage Saudi citizens to take their place.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Development decided in March to all foreigners working in shops for the sale and service of mobile phones with the nationals of Saudi Arabia to replace the beginning of September. Government figures this new ban on foreign workers will create more than 20,000 jobs for the local population.
The government adamant reader problems commonly referred to as "Saudization" in the past, which are sold as they tried with the local population in the vegetable markets and jewelry stores to replace last foreign. Since the announcement of the decision, the Ministry launched a national media campaign. A bus will visit a mobile branch various parts of the country to promote the plan. The bus, with two large video screens running advertising instead of windows, made several stations near Mobile Stores in Riyadh in May. Inside agents have gone with laptops hundreds of names of Saudi jobseekers.
Technical and Professional Corp., one of the iron arms of the government to implement the program, training said in late May that 19,084 men and women have been trained and are ready to take jobs in sales, service customer and maintenance base of mobile phones.
Mr. Amin, the owner of the mobile phone shop, is skeptical that the government will be able to train enough people in time to make the plan set by the Ministry of the work within the deadline.
"It was a big mess. We should give at least two years to do it. The area of foreign controlled for many years," Amin said. He added that he would not consider opening another business in the country if the government implement this policy.
"I will put my business in Dubai or elsewhere," he said.
Young Saudis have developed a reputation of looking down on manual labor in recent years. But Abdulaziz al-Buti, 23, who recently entered the training program, as settings have changed the labor market has become more competitive and the expectations of government support fell.
"What is important is the acceptance of the work and not what society thinks," said al-Buti, who left his studies and worked as a supermarket cashier. He pointed out that like to experiment with electronics and appliances. "Success will come elasticity. If you like the work, then nothing can stop."
Another measure that have contemplated the authorities, most of the stores to force closed from 9 am instead of 23 pm or midnight. This proposal was found to polarization. Supporters say that younger Saudis would work more attractive, as it can complete their work in time to go home to spend time with their families. Most foreign workers in the retail sector are now single people, or if not married in the Kingdom to their families. They are not easy to change jobs in a position, either can be used as workers in Saudi Arabia, if a better offer comes.
Opponents argue that the limits of the operating hours are not practical in a country in which to close any already forced companies five times a day for prayer and where temperatures often hot blazing during the day. Most people prefer shopping and errands at night.
These critics say that if the government wants stores close at 21.00, should not be forced to close during the prayer. However, it would draw the ire of religious conservatives, who consider the forced break for prayers as part of the Islamic identity of the country.
Tourism is another area leaders are willing to develop under the new plan. But also, it is an industry that the government has fueled by oil revenues the government has struggled with the powerful construction industry common cause with deep religious conservatism of the company found.
The holy city of Mecca attracts millions of visitors every year during the Hajj pilgrimage. This is huge Saudi construction companies are controlled by families connected, powerful, which made a fortune new luxury hotels and shopping malls there to build.
Muslim holy cities remain inaccessible to non-Muslims, even though some religious scholars have argued recently that the prohibition should be limited to Mecca, not Medina, where the Prophet Mohammed is buried. The kingdom is not issued tourist visas, but the government says that it wants to begin soon.
Some drivers of tourism would welcome the country in a year round destination, attracting visitors from all over the capitalization of archaeological treasures and diving. But the clerical class has resulted in the country often destroy the ancient Islamic monuments and sites, its strict Wahhabi brand of Islam positions as distractions from God and his prophet.
Some residents of the ancient trading city Jeddah, a port on the Red Sea, are trying to change that. historic town was largely abandoned by the people of Saudi Arabia, which drew the more spacious suburbs oil money in the country in 1960 and 1970. A movement flowed the old city is by hand with a revamp variety of efforts of the government historic houses to be restored. The new projects of restoration and carpentry skills teach old ruined houses in a neighborhood to renovate, classified by UNESCO in 2014 a World Heritage Site.
"The current view is to mix the old and the new," said Ali native Khormi Jeddah working 42 years as a leader. "Tourism is dependent on this vision."
The biggest challenge for the redesign of the kingdom petro state but probably hopes to build a diversified production base. This is particularly difficult, tends in an economy where oil dollars flooding to increase the price of labor Arabia, also too expensive exports to compete in foreign markets.
The tightly controlled market for foreign workers Kingdom work was a way to avoid this problem. To the extent that Saudi Arabia exported around the world on oil in the petrochemical industry to create competitive companies, for example, has managed and aluminum production, which we provided in the spirit of the advantage of cheap energy.
These two business models, both heavily subsidized by the state, the "on the creation of wealth" were for operators, not the "creation of economic value," Iyad said the Zaharnah, director of the Center for Innovation in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. "Do not encourage innovation. We knew that to change it."
Now the center of the cutting edge of Saudi Arabia looks suddenly excited. Recently opened a business incubator, with an open design, where the business begins several students work side by side. Cabin walls are covered contractor to do with slogans in Silicon Valley and Chinese philosopher.
The center has forged relationships with multinational companies such as General Electric Co. and Sinopec China together in developing research and companies to work. He developed dozens of new patents and 90 new products, including a water purification process used in some areas of oil shale in the United States.
The government has recently made a victory, known as GE that it plans at least $ 1400000000, doubling the workforce in the kingdom to invest The conglomerate to 4,000 in 2020. to form a team with two partners, including Aramco, to build a production plant $ 400 million for the energy and maritime sectors.
Now the incubator of the University will develop case studies in Arabic and try the younger to use by some families of prominent merchants in the kingdom members.
"It's about the mentality," said Moussa Wail, director of the incubator, known as the Institute for Entrepreneurship.
Writeto Bill Spindle in bill.spindle@wsj.com and Ahmed Al Omran to Ahmed.AlOmran@wsj.com
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