A fresh row over job cuts in the civil service broke out yesterday after the Chancellor announced that thousands of posts had been axed this year to cut costs. Gordon Brown told MPs that 18,500 civil service jobs had been cut this year, including more than 10,000 from the Department for Work and
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2005-12-06
Byline: NEIL ASHTON SOUTHAMPTON . . . . . . .1 BURNLEY . . . . . . . . . . .1 SIR CLIVE Woodward may be waiting in the wings, but Rupert Lowe will be given a rather subtle reminder this week that football remains a results-driven business. The Southampton chairman will hold talks with Dave Bassett
Source: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-06
Byline: Katherine Jimenez Dec 05, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian bank, Westpac, is thought to be planning substantial job cuts in 2006. The Finance Sector Union has asked Westpac to be open about its plans. There is speculation that up to 2,000 employees could lose their
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2005-12-06
Byline: Anna Griffin Dec. 5--Filmmakers say that when it comes to recruiting TV and movie productions, Portland is in the middle of the pack nationally: They love our ambience and easy access to the mountains, desert and coast, but they hate the miles of red tape they have to go through to get
Source: The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-06
Dec 05, 2005 (Northern Territory News - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Job advertisements in the Northern Territory News increased by 14.2 per cent in the 12 months to November 2005. The ANZ Bank survey figures were welcomed by Northern Territory Treasurer Syd Stirling, who said employment growth was being
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2005-12-06
Redditch firm BSA Castings is being wound down and closed with the loss of 50 jobs, it has been revealed. A spokesman for administrators Ernst & Young said the decision came after moves to find a buyer for the firm were unsuccessful. Discussions were still under way to find a buyer for sister
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2005-12-06
New World? Hardly. Long before 16th-century Europeans began to explore what would become known as North America, the land was already home to more than 30 million people by some estimates. With diverse languages and cultures they lived in thousands of communities, some established for centuries.
Byline: John Russell Sep. 11--Struggling Goodyear Tire & Rubber plans to cut 340 jobs in its chemical and engineered products businesses over the next year, resulting in the net loss of 20 to 30 jobs in Akron. The company, which has been chopping thousands of jobs in recent years to save money,
Byline: Joel Dresang Dec. 3--As unemployment rates inch downward and construction hiring reaches unprecedented highs, a Milwaukee collaborative is preparing to celebrate its effort to simultaneously develop both the infrastructure and the work force of southeastern Wisconsin. The Building Industry
Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-06
DEERFIELD, IllWalgreens Home Care announced last week that it will purchase Home Pharmacy of California. The nearly 20-year-old company, which operates pharmacies in Burbank, Corona and Ventura, provides home infusion, hospice and nutrition therapies, as well as specialty pharmacy services. The
Source: Home Care Magazine (Online Exclusive)
Posted: 2005-12-06
WARWICK, R.I. -- All it really takes for drug stores to be successful, Brooks Eckerd Pharmacy group vice president for New England Don Kinney notes, is staying true to three simple rules--provide good customer service, offer a wide selection of products and ensure that stores are in convenient
ABSTRACT Despite the widespread application of photochemical air quality models (AQMs) in U.S. state implementation planning (SIP) for attainment of the ambient ozone standard, documentation for the reliability of projections has remained highly subjective. An idealized evaluation framework is
Source: Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
Posted: 2005-12-06
HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY: SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HOLDS A HEARING ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND COORDINATION SEPTEMBER 29, 2005 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PETER KING (R-NY) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE LAMAR SMITH (R-TX) U.S.
Source: Washington Transcript Service
Posted: 2005-12-06
DENVER, July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WORLDWIDE STRATEGIES, INC. -- is present at the 66th Annual ACA International Convention in Washington, DC. The convention is being held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. WWSI is at Booth 1113. This association has over 5,700 members, including
Where do state policymakers go for information and what are the implications for social work? For years, community groups, foundations, and researchers have been looking for avenues to get relevant information to legislators. Similarly, social work practitioners and students are challenged to
Washington Transcript Service 04-21-2005 HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY HOLDS A MARKUP OF H.R. 1544 THE FASTER AND SMARTER FUNDING FOR FIRST RESPONDERS ACT OF 2005 APRIL 21, 2005 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CHRISTOPHER COX (R-CA) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE DON YOUNG (R-AK) U.S.
Source: Washington Transcript Service
Posted: 2005-12-06
Washington Transcript Service 04-12-2005 HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY: SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HOLDS A HEARING ON FIRST RESPONDER FUNDING APRIL 12, 2005 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PETER KING (R-NY) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE LAMAR SMITH
Source: Washington Transcript Service
Posted: 2005-12-06
Monday, April 4, to Thursday, April 7, 2005 The AORN House of Delegates will meet twice during the 2005 Congress in New Orleans--Monday, April 4, and Thursday, April 7. Both House sessions will follow strict parliamentary procedure. There are three Forums scheduled--one on Monday, April 4, and two
What can math get you? A starry job Byline: ANNE NETTLES Edition: Home Section: LIVING Column: NEWS FOR KIDS Type: Interview You may have learned the names of some stars and other things in the sky. So has Yvonne Pendleton, who went to Druid Hills High School and then to Georgia Tech. She even got
Source: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Posted: 2005-12-06
Dateline: TOKYO Struggling electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. has started offering early retirement to workers as part of its plan to cut 10,000 positions worldwide, a company official said Monday. The Tokyo-based manufacturer of the Walkman audio player and PlayStation video game
Dateline: WASHINGTON The Supreme Court Monday agreed to decide whether an employer may be liable for money damages if it transfers an employee who has complained of discrimination to a more difficult job. At issue is what constitutes "materially adverse" changes in employment and what standard of
Dateline: ST. LOUIS When the Rev. Marek Bozek leads Mass on Christmas Eve at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, he will be putting his job on the line. Bozek was associate pastor of St. Agnes Cathedral in Springfield until recently, when he moved to St. Louis in defiance of St. Louis Archbishop Raymond
Byline: John Zarocostas, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Special correspondent John Zarocostas interviewed Bob Ransom, a senior specialist in vocational rehabilitation and employability with the International Labor Organization (ILO), in Geneva on Friday. Saturday was the International Day of
Byline: By Alan Jones The biggest Government department faces the threat of a fresh wave of strikes in the New Year over job cuts which could spread to other Whitehall ministries, it was revealed yesterday. The Public and Commercial Services Union is balloting 90,000 members at the Department for
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2005-12-06
Dec. 4--The recent escape of two inmates from the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center and another by an OCRDC inmate from a Columbia hospital have officials wondering what can be done to retain experienced personnel at the facility. Willie Bamberg, director of the Orangeburg-Calhoun RDC,
Source: The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, South Carolina) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-06
A policeman who posed as a kissogram using force handcuffs has lost a fight to regain his job, it was confirmed yesterday. PC Frank Barr, 42, from Salisbury, was sacked from the Wiltshire Constabulary in September following an internal disciplinary hearing.
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2005-12-06
Byline: Patrice Hill Dec. 3--The job market snapped back last month with the addition of 215,000 jobs after a lull caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Labor Department reported yesterday. While the number of new jobs was about average for a month in the United States with the unemployment rate at 5
Source: The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-06
Senator Jose Jinggoyaa Ejercito Estrada called yesterday for a Senate public hearing on the alleged exorbitant fees being collected from employers who joined the job fair sponsored recently by the Office of the Press Secretary (OPS). Press Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye had canceled the Dec. 3-4 job
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- CVS Corp. pharmacy technician Amanda Szopinski has become the first former Job Corps student to graduate from pharmacy school. The 23-year-old Szopinski attended the pharmacy technician training program at the Job Corps center in Cassadaga, N.Y., in 2002, and then became a