500 employees will lose their jobs in the Jordan School district, located in the Salt Lake City region of Utah. 250 of these staff cuts will be teachers and the school district will increase class sizes to compensate for the loss of teachers. The district is facing an estimated $30 million budget shortfall in the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
MediConnect Global, based in Utah, processes health care claims for the insurance industry. The company announced today that it will invest $470,000 to expand its existing facilities in Utah, and hire 300 additional employees. Most of the new jobs will be at the company’s operations center in Ephraim, Utah. Mediconnect was founded in 1996. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
EBay Inc., the Internet auction site that once listed the plane Sarah Palin famously sold as Governor of Alaska, is adding more than 450 jobs at its operation center in Draper, Utah. The company is investing $334 million in a state of the art data center and will receive $30 million from the state [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The City of Payson, Utah will eliminate 11 positions, five of them through layoffs, over the next two years, due to cuts in its fiscal 2010 budget. Positions will be cut in the maintenance, streets, landfill and planning & zoning departments. Payson is a city in Utah County, Utah. It is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wal-Mart Stores will create more than 22,000 crummy non-union jobs in the US, as it expands stores and opens new locations. In anticipation of its annual shareholders meeting tomorrow, the company announced it will create over 1,000 low-paying jobs each in Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. The big box retail [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Utah will spend $1 million in federal stimulus finds to help probationers and parolees find jobs in the state. The cash is part of $9.9 million in Recovery Act funds that will go to Utah for criminal justice related programs. The Offender Employment Coordination program itself will employ 12 probation and parole agents, who will match ex-prisoners [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper has eliminated three positions, as it restructures its newsroom. The paper laid off a graphic designer, a web technician and an administrative assistant to the Editor. The Tribune said new technology made the positions redundant. Severance is being offered. There are no plans for further newsroom layoffs at this time. Founded in 1871 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
CONSOL Energy will eliminate 54 jobs, and shut down two operations in the West Virginia’s southern coalfields in July. The Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based company says 47 mine jobs will be cut; and seven will be laid off the at the Miller Creek Administration Group in Williamson. Founded in 1864, Cumberland, Maryland’s CONSOL Energy is the largest underground coal [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Reckitt Benckiser has broken ground on a new $35 million manufacturing facility in Tooele, Utah, and will create 200 jobs. The facility should be finished in Q1 2010. It will also serve as a distribution hub. Reckitt Benckiser PLC is a global consumer goods company, making and marketing home, health and personal care products. Headquartered near London, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 2, 2009
The National Aeronautics & Space Administration laid off 160 manufacturing workers this week, the first round of 900 job eliminations as the space agency winds down the Space Shuttle program. Eight final space missions remain for the three remaining space shuttles; the program will close down at the end of 2010. The layoffs this week affect workers [...]
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