86 employees will have their jobs phased out over the next 6 months at Dresser, Inc. in Tioga, Louisiana. The Tioga location is a valve facility employing more than 400 in the local area. Dresser has decided to outsource its manufacturing division and focus on assembly and shipping instead. A few employees will be placed [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Innovative Emergency Management Inc is moving its headquarters from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to North Carolina in return for state tax breaks of up to $9 million. 50 of the 150 jobs at the current headquarters will move, while the remaining employees will have the option to transfer to one of the other offices. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Omaha, Nebraska-based ConAgra Foods has announced that its Lamb Weston unit will invest $210 million in a sweet potato processing plant in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, creating up to 500 jobs. The state will contribute up to $37 million, luring the company away from sites in Mississippi and North Carolina. The plant will open in Fall of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 26, 2009
JPMorgan Chase will hire 250 workers for the company’s mortgage records center in Monroe, Louisiana. The new hiring will be complete in early August. JPMorgan is northeastern Louisiana’s second-largest private employer. The firm will employ 2,100 people in Ouachita Parish. New York City’s JPMorgan Chase is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It is [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
CenturyTel has merged with Embarq, and an undisclosed number of jobs will be eliminated before the end of 2009. The new firm is called CenturyLink, and employs 20,000 employees in 33 states. It will be headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. CenturyTel purchased Embarq for $11.6 billion. Fewer than 30 jobs will be cut in July, but further, larger [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 27, 2009
Specialty Process Fabricators of Vicksburg, Mississippi will shut down over the next few months, laying off its 50 employees. The subsidiary of Ergon will lay off workers at its refining plant and ethanol plant as projects are completed. Ergon is based in Jackson, Mississippi. It includes operations as a refiner, transporter, producer, distributor and marketer of petroleum [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 1, 2009
Seven hundred at-risk teens and young adults in Baton Rouge, Louisiana will have the opportunity to work temporary jobs this summer, due to the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s Summer Youth Employment Program and the federal stimulus program. The stimulus funds amount $1.7 million dollars. Most of the money will be spent this summer on the youth [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 1, 2009
Louisiana’s Office of the Lieutenant Governor plans to lay off 23 workers, and eliminate six vacant posts by the end of June. The Louisiana State Civil Service Commission will discuss approval of the job cuts this Wednesday. Those affected are employed by the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, which handles tourism, state parks, cultural development, state [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The State of Louisiana lost 8,000 jobs in March, with an unemployment rate of 6.2%. That’s up 0.4% from March. The Bayou State lost 6,700 jobs between April 2008 and April 2009; this is the first time the state lost year-to-year jobs since Hurricane Katrina. Baton Rouge lost 2,100 jobs in April. New Orleans lost 2,400 jobs. Share [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Capital One Bank has notified 180 employees in Baton Rouge, Louisiana of their impending unemployment. Most of those targeted work at the Capital One Direct Bank Department in Baton Rouge. The rest work at the bank’s downtown headquarters. Capital One will create 70 new positions at facilities in Texas and Maryland. Most of the layoffs will take place [...]
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