We reported late last month that Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman announced likely job cuts across all city departments this year. After a four hour hearing yesterday the Las Vegas City Council tentatively approved next year’s budget and 146 city employees will lose their jobs by June as the Council tries to make up for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
In a move justified by helping the city budget, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman announced Thursday that all city departments are likely to experience layoffs. The stalling of bargaining agreements with local unions was cited as leaving 171 workers on the fence and another 44 unfilled. “This is going to be a very sad day in city [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Boulder City, just east of Las Vegas and part of the greater Las Vegas Valley, has inked a deal with Wind Sail Receptor that will bring cheaper energy and lots of jobs to the city. In exchange for the free use of some property, Boulder City will get 1 megawatt of power and the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
Las Vegas, still suffering a 13% unemployment record, needs a little good news. Today a furniture company based in Montreal, Canada, announced it was opening a 390,000 square foot warehouse at the end of May. Most of the 200 new positions will be filled between March and April, but some people are already [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Citing falling demand for hotel rooms in Las Vegas, the Sahara is closing two of its towers for the winter, and possibly longer. The main Tangiers tower and the casino will remain open. This falls on the heels of Binion’s decision to close all its rooms, which went into effect yesterday. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
The city of Las Vegas is asking its employees to take an 8% pay cut for the next to years or risk wide spread layoffs. 90% of city employees are represented by four unions, who have received a letter from the City Manager asking them accept the pay cuts along with the elimination of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Binion’s Hotel and Casino, formerly known as the Horseshoe, is shutting down its hotel in downtown Las Vegas. The casino and restaurants will remain open. 100 employees will lose their job when the hotel ceases operations beginning on December 14th. The company cited the economic decline as the reason for the decision, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
Las Vegas is one city council vote away from approving the construction of a new City Hall in the downtown area, a plan that supporters claim will create 13,000 jobs by revitalizing the down town district. Las Vegas is currently facing an unemployment rate of over 13% and the construction industry, once the cities [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
US Airways, as part of an overall cost savings program that will eliminate 1000 jobs, has announced that it will reduce the number of flights into Las Vegas by 44 percent. The carrier will also end non-stop service between Las Vegas and ten other cities. With 6500 new hotel rooms set to open [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
Targetopened a new store in Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb, on Sunday. The store created 165 jobs in the Las Vegas valley, which is reeling from a 13.4% jobless rate, the highest in the state. This is one of twenty six new stores Target is opening, creating 5000 jobs overall. Target is the fifth [...]
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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