While the national unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent in January, the U.S. Labor Department reported Wednesday that 30 states actually saw an increase in unemployment that month. Five states reported record-high unemployment, including California (12.5 percent), South Carolina (12.6 percent), Florida (11.9 percent), North Carolina (11.1 percent) and Georgia (10.4 percent). The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 8, 2010
In what is said to be the first in a series of layoffs, 329 staff members of the Los Angeles Superior Court will be let go on April 1. “Given the size of the budget cuts we have already experienced, we anticipate hundreds more layoffs to follow,” said Superior Court Executive Officer John A. Clarke on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
In the past week, 525 new jobs have been announced in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Qual Tex Labs, a San Antonio-based medical company that screens blood and plasma is investing $12 million over the next five years and is planning to hire around 125 new employees. Web Industries announced adding as many as 250 new workers, and Spectral [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Heritage Food Service Equipment, Inc. has plans to expand their Fort Wayne, Indiana headquarters and warehouse facilities. The expansions should occur by March of this year, and create up to 150 new jobs at the site. The cost of the expansion has been put at $1.5 million and is being made partly possible by tax incentives. [...]
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...Friday, February 19, 2010
Although Whirlpool’s Amana plant in Iowa is adding 60 new jobs due to a new product line, the positions are being reserved for former employees. In October of 2008 the plant laid off a total of 440 workers. In the next few weeks 90 will be recalled in order to handle the seasonal spike in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Request Foods of Holland Township Michigan has experienced steady growth and is now looking to expand over the next five years. The food manufacturers annual sales were $180 million last year, and are expected to increase to $240 million this year says president Jack DeWitt. If the state approves the expansion, the company will acquire their [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 8, 2010
The Conference Board Employment Trends index rose for the fifth consecutive month in January. The index moved up a percentage point to 93.2 from December’s 92.3, which indicates job growth could be on the way, according to an associate director for Conference Board. “The continued rise in the ETI makes us more optimistic that job growth [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Today before an audience of workers at a Baltimore machine plant President Obama proposed $33 billion in tax credits to encourage small businesses to hire additional employees. The proposal calls for a $5,000 tax credit for every net new worker hired in 2010. The amount would be capped at $500,000 per firm to ensure that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
According to a report released Friday by Georgia’s Department of Labor, 100,000 laid off workers in the state filed initial claims for unemployment benefits in December. This was an increase of almost 40% over November’s initial claims. Initial claims came most heavily from the manufacturing, trade, construction and administrative and support service sectors. The labor department [...]
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