Coinciding with the crash of the housing market 3-4 years ago, the total number of jobs lost in the construction industry has been felt the hardest in Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has published the following construction job declines for the period of the recession: Arizona 53.2%, Nevada 52.3%, and Florida at [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
A combined $16.1 million had been requested from various counties as part of the Florida back to work program. The program allows the private, nonprofit Workforce Solutions to reimburse all of the wages of applicable workers. The jobs must be for positions paying less than $40,000 a year and the funds are coming from a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Wyndham Vacation Ownership, a time-share company based in Florida, announced that it will lay off 83 employees. The company is hoping this move will help them cut costs. The lay offs will occur at a call center facility in Margate, Florida. Employees will receive notice beginning in April 2010. Call center functions in Margate will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
On Friday 36 Boeing employees working for NASA’s space shuttle program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida lost their jobs. 300 Boeing employees work on site in Florida at the center. Most of these jobs will be cut when the shuttles are retired this year. 7,000 space industry workers will lose their jobs by the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Stericycle is cutting 29 jobs from its facility in Boynton Beach, Florida, according to a notice it filed this week with the state. The layoffs will be effective at the end of February. Stericycle is the country’s largest provider of medical waste services. From 2001 to 2005 it was one of Forbes Magazine’s Best [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
Health First is building a hospital in Viera, Florida. The hospital and health complex will be completed in 2011 and is expected to create 750 jobs. The complex will contain a 100 bed hospital and a medical office complex, along with the Pro-Health and Fitness Center which has already opened on site. Health First [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
23 states saw an increase in their jobless rate last month. 43 states lost jobs in September while only 7 states saw an increase. Because the unemployment rate does not count long term unemployed who have stopped looking for work, several states lost jobs but saw a drop in the unemployment figures anyway. Nevada [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Lake Mary, Florida’s Faro Technologies has held a third round of job cuts, laying off 65 people, or 8% of its workforce. Faro has laid off 170 workers so far this year, or 21%, not including this week’s cuts. Founded in 1981, Faro Technologies manufactures precision-measurement systems for aerospace, engineering and architecture. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Florida’s Waste Not Technologies has proposed building a recycling center in Van Buren County, Michigan, creating 1,400 new jobs. The center, a $150 million investment, would reclaim raw materials for local manufacturers, such as those making shipping pallets or railroad ties. The facility would accept residential recyclables, such as cardboard, plastic and tin. Waste Not Technologies of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Federal stimulus finding of $1.3 billion has saved almost 26,000 Florida education jobs, according to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Duncan and Vice President Joe Biden visited Jackson Middle School in Orlando today to announce the results. Arne Duncan an education administrator and currently United States Secretary of Education. Duncan had previously served as CEO of [...]
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