With assistance from the U.S. businesspeople are working on an educational proposal based on responding to the specific needs of each community.
An article in Elnuevodiario.com reports that "Ensuring skilled labour for new investment projects to be implemented in Nicaragua is part of the educational objectives of the so called "Community College" format, which a U.S.
Keeping up with the pace of economic growth, in 2018 the employment rate will be double the current level.
During the conference entitled "Impact of the Economy in the Private Sector" , organized by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Panama, the president of the consultancy company Intracorp S. A., Ruben Lachman, said that companies that require skilled labor will continue to recruit foreigners who match the professional profile they are looking for.
It is increasingly common for companies to look for accountants, managers, engineers, architects and technicians who are bilingual.
Although more and more companies are looking for bilingual staff, language schools believe that the demand for courses is still too low to meet the needs of entrepreneurs and investment entering the country.
Even so , " Nicaraguans have recently realized the importance of English, it is the language of business worldwide, it is the language of the internet, documents , and they now feel that it is becoming a priority," said Franklin Tellez, academic director of the Nicaraguan American Cultural Center (CCNN) .
The service sector is the fastest-growing (19.9%) with 53,129 social security contributors, about 8,850 more than in the same period in 2012. Up until last September 113,067 new contributors signed up, 15,104 more than the 97,963 reported in the same period last year.
Up until September 113 067 new contributors signed up , 15,104 more than the 97,963 reported in the same period last year.
Costa Rica needs 75,000 coffee pickers for the harvesting which starts in November and another 7,350 people to harvest sugar cane and melon.
This was announced by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MTSS) who in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Agro-Industrial Sugarcane League (LAY) and the Costa Rican Coffee Institute (iCafe), conducted a campaign to find those 82,350 employees for the harvest season which runs from November to April.
The industry average nominal wage is $549, but in certain areas such as paper and cardboard it is $609.
This was explained Doris de Rivera, industrial manager of the Salvadoran Association of Industrialists (ASI). Globally, private sector employment has increased by 31% compared to the first six months of last year.
Elsalvador.com reports: "Regarding the increase in the number of jobs in companies which produce and distribute paper, cardboard and printing there was an increase of 4.2%, approximately 337 jobs."
Young people studying in municipalities in inland Nicaragua are not connected to what is being produced nor the employment on offer in those areas.
This was explained by the study entitled "Identifying Business Opportunities and Employment for Adolescents and Young Men and Women" carried out in 15 Nicaraguan municipalities by the humanitarian organization Plan International.
Demands have been made for the U.S. Department of Labor to form an arbitration panel against the country over the lack of progress in labor matters.
From a press release by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO):
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest trade union center in the U.S., in conjunction with the largest unions of Guatemala as a gesture of appreciation over the lack of labor rights protection under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA, for its acronym in English), today sent a letter to the U.S. Labor Department, the U.S. Trade Representative , and the ministers of labor and economy in Guatemala, in which they called for an arbitration panel to be reinstated. The "Implementation Plan" was signed by the two governments on April 26, 2013.
Between January and August 2013 there were 183,562 employment contracts, of which 69,830 were for an indefinite period and 59,763 for fixed work.
The Economic activities which report the most amount of contracts in that period were hotels and restaurants, manufacturing, service, finance and insurance, transport, storage and mail, information, communication, and others, according to the Ministry of Labour and Development (Mitradel) .
Businessmen who struggle everyday to keep their businesses going should keep this topic in mind when being asked to pay more taxes.
No economy that wants to be competitive can support the idea that the average number of sick days taken by workers at its main port terminal is 29.7 per year.
Of course these are state employees. And of course the union of these workers, doesn't want to know anything about privatization nor have private companies performing the same tasks.
Another 11,000 foreigners from 44 different countries have regularized their immigration status and obtained work and residency permits.
" ... Some 54 foreign nationalities have regularized their status, in the seventeen days that the process takes, without any hitches, although the number of regularized people has increased compared to the previous processes," said Javier Carrillo , director general of the National Immigration Service (SNM by its initials in Spanish) .
A professional degree used to be a guarantee of social mobility and prestige, but the current labour market pays little for some of them.
The labor market can be compared to the commercial market. Salaries are defined by the evolution of supply and demand. When supply is greater than demand, salaries are lowered and when demand is greater than supply, wages rise.
Without contradicting the provisions of law which state that tipping must be voluntary, the regulation approves phrases which suggest the possibility of the amount which can be paid and including it in the bill.
This is how it is described in the regulation of the Law on protection of the rights of consumers and users, published last week in the newspaper La Gaceta.
Between July 2011 and July 2012, Guatemala created 29,494 jobs, figure that dropped to 19,437 between 2012 and 2013.
The Association for Research and Social Studies (ASIES) has presented the results of the 57 Enterprise Survey, which measures perceptions of employers in the metropolitan area regarding the main economic variables which influenced its activities up to July 2013.
While the unemployment rate remains the lowest in Latin America, an even greater level of preparedness of the workforce is needed to achieve dynamic and sustainable growth.
According to an article in Capital.com.pa the rate of employment growth is no longer parallel to economic growth, noting that "According to official figures, between March 2012 and March 2013 there was a decrease in the labour force of nearly 7,000 jobs. "