(Northeastern News) (U-WIRE) BOSTON -- Sooner or later, the time would come. The time to leave behind the wasted days of TV watching, Madden playing and not going to parties and enter the real world. As my co-op at a local newspaper winds down, this realization has slowly come to me. While I may
M2 PRESSWIRE-9 December 2005-ILO-London: Globalization failing to create new, quality jobs or reduce poverty; ILO report sees wide gaps in wages, productivity gains(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09122005 GENEVA (ILO News) - Global economic growth is increasingly failing to translate into
ENGINEERING group AEA Technology said it would make 100 staff at its rail division redundant to save pounds 3.5m a year - on top of the 200 job losses that were made between April and September. AEA reported interim pre-tax profits of pounds 3m compared with losses of pounds 3.6m a year earlier
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Jobs are being cut at a County Durham clothing factory just two days before Christmas. The Peterlee manufacturing business of Coats Barbour is being closed down by its parent company Coats plc after the customer base for its zips moved out of the North-east to take advantage of cheap foreign
Byline: Alan Plews A construction company is moving to South-west Durham and creating scores of jobs as it helps to rebuild communities devastated by the Boxing Day tsunami disaster. More than 80 jobs will be provided when Worldwide Environmental Technologies Holdings moves its base from Tanfield
Byline: Murray Hill-Bly YOUR story about the job losses at Royal Liver and the intended transfer of jobs to a smaller subsidiary company, IFA based in Leeds, would appear to be bad news for Liverpool jobs (ECHO, December 7). The division of the Royal Liver to a new company in Leeds suggests the
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-09
In a recent court case a driver travelling at 117mph was taken to court and fined. It was said that if this worker lost his licence he would lose his job. What are the courts coming to, anyone with even a modicum of grey matter knows to travel over the limit, especially over 100mph, would usually
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2005-12-09
SENIOR Midland Conservatives will today learn whether they will keep their jobs, as new Tory leader David Cameron began naming his Shadow Cabinet. David Davis, who unsuccessfully challenged Mr Cameron for the leadership, continues as Shadow Home Secretary, while former leader William Hague returns
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Byline: Dan Wallach Dec. 8--The Southeast Texas Workforce Development Board this week discussed the loss of more than 300 jobs as a result of the temporary closure of the Al Price State Juvenile Correctional Facility, which suffered heavy damage from Hurricane Rita. The Texas Youth Commission laid
Source: The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-09
HEALTH MATTERS : We need admin help to do our jobs, says stroke nurse Edition: FIRST Section: News A Birmingham nurse has warned waiting lists could grow and patient care may be compromised if health workers are not freed from the growing mountain of paperwork and administration. A three-month
ZOA MARTINEZ already knew she had the entrepreneurial spirit as a teenager. A gifted artist, she made money doing calligraphy projects for every club at her Miami high school. I would get a couple of dollars for each [project], she says. From a young age, I was already working. She eventually
In 1987, Cheryl Churchill lost her job for criticizing her employer. Churchill was a public employee holding a probationary nursing position in the obstetrics department of McDonough Hospital in Macomb, Illinois. Alleging that the termination violated her First Amendment rights, she sued the
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, Sep 7, 2005 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- MT Ultimate Healthcare Corp. (OTCBB:MTHC), a leading provider of healthcare staffing, specialty allied health, homecare and infusion nursing, announced today that it has executed a nursing service contract with Apria Health Group
Source: Canadian Corporate News
Posted: 2005-12-09
Welsh public sector workers get more out of their jobs than their private-sector counterparts, claims new research. The research, conducted on behalf of new public sector web site Inside Public, showed that in Wales eight out of 10 public sector workers (81%) find their jobs rewarding compared to
Source: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Byline: Brier Dudley Dec. 8--Tech workers in the U.S. may fear their future lies in India, after hearing that Bill Gates was in New Delhi on Wednesday announcing plans for 3,000 new Microsoft jobs on the subcontinent. But the company is still adding more jobs overall in the U.S. and mostly at its
Source: The Seattle Times (Seattle, Washington) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Dateline: NEW DELHI Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday that his company plans to add 3,000 jobs in India over the next three to four years, a news agency reported. "We have 4,000 professionals in India today, we will increase it to 7,000 over the next three to four years," Bill
NATIONAL Gold hits 24-year high, settling at $514.30 Gold prices rose Wednesday on fund buying, hitting a 24-year high. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, December gold futures, or spot gold, rose $4.10 to finish at $514.30. Spot gold has not traded at that level since 1981. Gold finished higher
Congressional Testimony 02-15-2005 Statement Of The Honorable R. James Nicholson Secretary, Veterans AffairsCommittee on Senate Veterans Affairs February 15, 2005 Mr. Chairman andmembers of the Committee, good morning. I am deeply honored that the Presidenthas given me the opportunity to serve as
By Jim McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 15--Representatives of small business, farmers, labor unions and the uninsured yesterday voiced their growing frustration over ever-rising health care costs to Republican state lawmakers. Health care costs are harming
Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Posted: 2005-12-09
Dec. 8--TOKYO -- Audio equipment manufacturer Pioneer Corp. said Thursday it will eliminate 2,600 jobs, or about 8 percent of its global workforce, and scale back its plasma display panel television business as part of a corporate restructuring plan. The company anticipates its group net loss for
Source: Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Byline: Fleur Anderson Dec 08, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Employment figures for November 2005 were unexpectedly good, but not all analysts are impressed. Over 48,000 Australians took up full-time jobs during the month, although part-time jobs fell by 20,100. The
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2005-12-09
LOGISTICS giant Wincanton is busy recruiting up to 2,000 people to work at 11 warehouse operations. The company runs the warehousing and distribution for a wide range of food and drink manufacturers and retail companies, including DIY giant Focus, whose warehouse in Tamworth, Staffs, has just
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Byline: Josh Gordon Dec 08, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian women seem to be doing better in the job market, but overall employment growth may be slowing. Australian Treasurer Peter Costello has used November 2005 figures showing an increase of just 28,000 jobs to insist that more
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2005-12-09
Byline: Michelle Rushton JUDITH HOLBREY has enjoyed a healthy career, having started off as a nurse cadet and moved her way up through the ranks to become chief executive of the Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust. She started her career straight from school as a nurse cadet at her local technical
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-09
JOBS will go at Liverpoolbased friendly society Royal Liver Assurance early next year following the restructuring of its financial advisory divisions. Chief executive Steve Burnett insisted there would not be a significant number of redundancies but could not rule out compulsory losses. Royal
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Dec. 8--NEW YORK -- Ford Motor Co. is mulling a restructuring plan that calls for closing at least 10 assembly and component plants and eliminating 25,000 to 30,000 hourly jobs in North America within five years, the Detroit News said Wednesday in its online edition. Citing sources familiar with
Source: Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Byline: Shelley Widhalm, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Tom Hamilton had no qualms about hanging 30 feet in the air strapped in a basket used for rescuing people from buildings - though at one time he was afraid of heights. Firefighters and emergency medical service technicians from the Purcellville and
Byline: Tom Daykin Dec. 8--A federal program that subsidizes new business development in poor neighborhoods is expanding in Milwaukee, a move that Mayor Tom Barrett says will help create more jobs within the central city. The expansion of the Renewal Community program is bittersweet news, Barrett
Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-09
Byline: Mark Jones Dec 08, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Business Software Association of Australia (BSAA) is a non-profit organisation with backing from IT groups. The Australian arm of the international software lobby group has revealed that reducing piracy by
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2005-12-09
WASHINGTON, Dec 8, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The number of Americans who have lost jobs from a string of devastating hurricanes which hit US Gulf Coast areas in the summer increased to 599,700 last week, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. The department said that jobless claims related to
M2 PRESSWIRE-8 December 2005-UK Government: Publication of DWP Research Report 302: evaluation of the job outcome target pilots: findings from the qualitative study(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08122005 New research published today by the Department for Work and Pensions examines the
A construction company is creating 10 jobs after securing more than pounds 3m worth of contracts. Metek Building Systems, a division of North-East construction company the MMP Group, will take on the extra staff early next year after clinching the deals to produce light steel frame for modular
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2005-12-09