It is true that blue-collar, unionized, metal-bending shops that employed workers by the thousands are gone.
South African mines and farms have long employed workers from Lesotho, Malawi or Zimbabwe.
More importantly, the real unemployment rate, which factors in discouraged and under-employed workers, rose from 16.7% to 17.1%.
More than 60 percent of self-employed workers (whose income tax is not withheld) either under-report income or over-report deductions.
The industry's now down to fewer than 2000 directly-employed workers in surface mining.
Finnish Liberal MEP Riika Manner drew attention to the fact that there were far fewer female self-employed workers compared to men.
In Chile, where self-employed workers do not have to pay into a personal retirement account, very few choose to do so regularly.
The new law was drawn up by the European Commission in October 2008 and seeks to improve the rights of spouses of self-employed workers.
It would extend rights to civil partners and "life partners", and would also ensure that self-employed workers have the same maternity rights as employees.
What is the cost in terms of the lost output if some of the new spending simply attracts already employed workers from other productive jobs?
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Its share of self-employed workers is almost twice as big as America's, and some 69% of its private-sector employees work in firms with fewer than 100 people.
Labor unions say HIT used to have more than a thousand directly employed workers until the late 1990s, when it began to outsource as a cost-cutting measure.
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MEPs debated the new directive which primarily focuses on the rules applying to self-employed workers and to people working in the airline sector, on 17 April 2012.
The plant is run by Algeria's state oil company, in cooperation with foreign firms such as Norway's Statoil and Britain's BP -- and as such, employed workers from several foreign countries.
The plant in eastern Algeria is run by the state oil company, in cooperation with foreign firms such as Norway's Statoil and Britain's BP -- and as such, employed workers from several foreign countries.
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In all, the survey of more than 1, 000 employed workers between the ages of 22 and 33 showed that young workers feel that the last 18 months have led them to become more conservative with their money.
Self-employed workers and small businesses will be pleased to learn that they will be able to enjoy the benefits of Ultimate Speed Internet 120, including a 250 GB download and 100 GB upload limit, as of fall 2010.
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State and local tax revenues would surge, and governments would start hiring back some of the workers they have had to lay off in the past couple of years, and the newly employed workers would spend more money.
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There are over two million sellers on eBay, and there are also over twenty-one million self-employed workers, many of whom rely on selling goods on the internet and shipping them through the Postal Service for their livelihood.
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It is increasingly common for families, self-employed workers and small businesses to share a single Internet connection among a number of people and among many simultaneous uses and applications: uploads and downloads, video and photo sharing, computers and game consoles.
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Most MEPs to speak in the debate said they would vote in favour of the law, however British Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis raised concerns over what the impact may be on self-employed workers who were helped out by family members.
In total, he reckoned 150, 000 jobs would go from directly employed council workers, and a further 50, 000 among contractors and agency staff.
The towering, sequestered 300-room San Paolo Palace hotel on Palermo's eastern outskirts, part of the empire of families in the city's notorious Brancaccio district, employed 120 workers.
It employed 200 workers during construction.
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Approximately 1, 600 workers are employed on the scheme, with only about 50 being foreign workers.
Vion took over from Grampian Foods in 2008, when the plant employed nearly 600 workers.
The number of additional workers employed part time for economic reasons stood at 8.5 million.
Self-employed or independent workers are a bright spot in the otherwise grim workplace result.
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