HVAC manufacturer Trane will eliminate 320 jobs at its Pueblo, Colorado commercial air conditioning plant by August. This accelerates layoff plans announced last year, that were set to conclude by 2011. The cuts target production staff and managers. One hundred and twenty-five positions have already been eliminated through attrition and cuts in temp and part-time jobs. The Pueblo [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wal-Mart is hiring 100 people for a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market in Owasso, Oklahoma. Applicants can apply at the location or online. The jobs include full-time, part-time, and supervisory positions, and will begin in June. The store opens this summer. Wal-Mart Stores is a retail monopsony which runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer products manufacturer, is laying off workers in Puerto Rico. The company is cutting about 90 part-time jobs at a plant in the town of Cayey, which makes Olay skin care products and Vicks cold medicine. P&G has about 700 employees in the US territory. Puerto Rico has an unemployment rate above [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 22, 2009
Plainview, Texas’ Wayland Baptist University will hold its annual spring Career Expo from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday in the Pete and Nelda Laney Student Activities Center. Nearly 40 school districts and businesses are scheduled to attend the expo, which is open to the public at no cost. Employers will recruit for full-time, professional jobs, most of which [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
A two-day job fair held by Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium to fill 500 part-time jobs for the baseball season attracted nearly 7,000 applicants. With the team in Glendale, Arizona, for spring training, the stadium became a human resources arena Saturday and Sunday during the 2009 Dodgertown Job Fair. Dodgers officials said they had expected as many as [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Trans World Entertainment has eliminated 45 stock and receiving jobs at its Albany, New York distribution center, the second set of layoffs announced by the CD, DVD and video game retailer this year. Trans World’s distribution center, which employs about 230, hires about 60 seasonal workers each fall. Seasonal workers typically leave within a few weeks after [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Kent, Washington-based outdoor gear and apparel retailer REI is eliminating 61 full-time jobs, mostly at its headquarters and Sumner distribution center. REI is cutting an unspecified number of part-time hourly-wage jobs at about half of its 105 stores, as well as the Sumner facility. The co-op reported a 65% drop in its 2008 profit. Spokesperson Megan Behrbaum [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
Wisconsin-based department store chain Kohl’s kicked off a two-week job fair last Saturday at the Workforce Alliance Career Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. The company needs to staff its new Royal Palm Beach store, and nearly 150 jobs are up for grabs. The Sunshine State’s unemployment rate is 8.1%. Governor Charlie Crist made a stop at the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
On Sunday, Omaha, Nebraska’s Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo attracted several hundred people to its annual job fair. Applicants filled out their paperwork and went off for interviews. Many of those at the job fair said they are looking for work of any kind. Attendance at the zoo is up nearly 15% so far this year and memberships [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 6, 2009
When Kohl’s, the Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based department store chain, opens two new metro Atlanta, Georgia stores in March, it expects to create 300 new jobs. Job seekers can apply for the Kohl’s jobs at a job fair set for January 11-15 at The Best Western – Mountain Villa Inn & Suites in Canton, or The Hilton [...]
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
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