The Virginia Department of Transportation is notifying 600 employees this week they will be laid off in September. Construction and Planning have been specifically targeted; and safety-related jobs will be spared. The VDOT has canceled $2 billion worth of road building due to state budget cuts. In May, the agency employed 8,200 people. It hopes up to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
NCR is informing its Dayton, Ohio employees which will be offered jobs at their new Duluth, Georgia headquarters, and which will be laid off. The firm is not releasing numbers. Those who lose their jobs will be given severance and outplacement support. NCR’s headquarters move will bring 1,250 jobs to Duluth. The company is also opening a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Pilgrim’s Pride will shut down its Athens, Alabama chicken processing plant, laying off 640 employees. The firm will also shutter one of its two plants in Athens, Georgia. The plants could be reopened at a later date. Those laid off in Alabama may be offered other positions. All will be given outplacement assistance. Pilgrim’s Pride, headquartered in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
Portola Tech International will relocate operations from Woonsocket, Rhode Island to Cumberland, and eliminate 130 jobs in November. Severance packages and career counseling will be offered to the employees affected. The Woonsocket plant currently employs 230. Portola Tech International makes plastic packaging components for cosmetic, fragrance and toiletries markets; plus in-house silk screening, hot stamping, and metallizing. Share This [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
PRS/Franklin Group will shutter its Newtown, Pennsylvania office, laying off 61 workers. The jobs will go to the Somerset, New Jersey headquarters of parent firm Inventive Health. The layoffs will completed between September and December. Some Newtown workers will be offered jobs in Somerset. PRS/Franklin provides support services to pharmaceutical and health-care companies. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
Baldor Electric will invest $12.2 million in Kings Mountain, North Carolina operation, as it moves its South Carolina operations to other locations. The State of North Carolina has offered the firm $157,000 in incentives. The Kings Mountain plant in currently employs 500. The new jobs will pay an average wage of $38,000. The firm is shuttering its Fort [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia’s SunTrust Banks has signed a 10-year deal with Toronto, Ontario’s Symcor, to handle check & payment processing and statement generation. As a result, SunTrust will lose 1,554 positions; but the Canadian firm will take over 1,500 of the workers. Fifty-four workers will lose their jobs. The layoffs and transfers will affect 5% of SunTrust’s [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
Metal heat treating fabricator Whertec is relocating a Dothan, Alabama production and warehousing facility to Jacksonville, Florida, bringing along 81 jobs within four years. The firm has not yet informed all the Alabama workers affected. The jobs will pay an average of $45,000 per year. Whertec will invest $4.1 million in the new plant, and get state tax [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 29, 2009
Eighty-eight Westerville, Ohio-based First American employees who work on a contract for JPMorgan Chase have been offered jobs at Chase, as the firm ends the contract and moves the work in-house. The Texas-based First American had planned to lay off the 33 full-time and 55 part-time employees when the contract ended. The Westerville office will be [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Shipping container company APL is moving its regional headquarters from Oakland, California, to Phoenix, Arizona. The move will create up to 400 jobs in the desert city. American President Lines, or APL, is the world’s seventh-largest container transportation and shipping company, providing services to more than 140 countries through a network combining intermodal freight transport operations with [...]
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