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In order to reduce youth unemployment and improve living conditions, the Bolivian Government, with funding from the Spanish Cooperation and the World Bank has launched the “Mi Primer Empleo Digno” (My first decent job) program which expects to create 4,000 jobs in 2011.

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According to Rodolfo Garcia, President of Terremark Worldwide’s Latin American business unit (Terremark Worldwide is an IT infrastructure services provider), in an interview to Forbes Magazine in Februrary 2010, technology is usually introduced to North America three years ahead of Latin America. However, with Software-as-a-Service, that’s not the case.

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In this column, for the last four issues, I have been summarizing the key issues in the healthcare reform laws (technically the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act) that were passed last year.  There has been lots of discussion and debate around this topic since passage, particularly leading up to the November, 2010 mid-term elections.  In this issue, I’d like to discuss some interesting minor points that have gotten attention in the discussions, note some of the surveys conducted since passage and make a few remarks on what’s ahead.

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The flood threat to the broadband rollout does not come from water soaked trenches being dug to accommodate fibre-optic cable but from political pressure to divert the funds towards flood relief.

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In this issue, I’d like to deal with a variety of other miscellaneous issues related to this legislation, from the significant to the trivial, which are of interest to HR professionals.  Some of these have been touched on in prior articles and, as previously stated, most of these provisions apply only to companies of fifty or more employees.

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Only a few countries, like Ireland and Greece, are struggling to get back to a healthy growth level. This growth, combined to demographic factors have restarted the “war for talents” in Europe. All predictions and signs are indicating a lack of qualified employees in virtually all areas over the next years. This lack of talent will be an issue, especially in mid-sized German companies, where the economy depends heavily on the export of goods.

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The Workforce 2020 Program, conducted by the New Zealand Department of Labor, is designed to ensure the country’s needs for a prepared and productive workforce for the next 10 years and beyond. The program consists of an analysis of the forces, impacts and drivers of an appropriate future workforce, and their relationships with each other.

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