MORE than 450 jobs could be created on a site with some of the best views in North Wales. The former Hotpoint plant at Llandudno Junction was reclaimed and landscaped by the Welsh Development Agency to form The Point. WDA bosses say it is a key site for future economic development in the region.
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Byline: Jon Fox, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Dec. 20--WILKES-BARRE TWP. -- Flanked by his wife and children, state Rep. Kevin Blaum said his retirement from politics could lead to a position teaching at the Wyoming Valley private school attended by both his daughters. If you wanted to know
Source: The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Byline: By KIERAN McDAID ALMOST 50 jobs are to be created at a new medical product manufacturing plant, Enterprise Minister Micheal Martin announced yesterday. BeoCare Ltd, in Killarney, Co Kerry, will develop and manufacture high value medical products with the creation of 48 jobs over the next
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Byline: By Daniel Cochlin A whistleblower who defied his bosses to warn about poisons and chemicals ( including asbestos and cyanide ( at a tourist attraction was sacked and lost his home, a tribunal heard yesterday. Peter Collins was head warden at Trow Quarry, South Shields, until last May, but
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Byline: ROB MERRICK HATEVER happened to the great exodus of Civil Service jobs out of London to Liverpool and elsewhere, as promised by Gordon Brown? It is now 17 months since the Chancellor announced that government departments had identified a total of 20,030 posts to be relocated to the regions.
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-20
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Despite strong economic growth from higher prices for oil and other commodities, high unemployment remains endemic in Africa and poverty will not be arrested until millions of new jobs are created each year, said a new UN report released Monday.
BLUE Arrow Recruitment Agency is urging local job seekers with catering experience to sign up and cash in on the eating out boom in Birmingham. Due to the increasing popularity of eating and drinking out, there is a high demand for temporary and permanent staff in the catering industry. For vacancy
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Byline: Melissa Campbell Dec. 19--The number of jobs in Anchorage reached nearly 147,000 in 2005, giving the city its 17th year of uninterrupted employment growth, a state economist told business leaders. The news gets better: halfway into fiscal year 2006, Anchorage is on track to continue its
Source: Alaska Journal of Commerce (Anchorage, Alaska) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-20
OPERATOR: Welcome to the NCR Investor Relations conference call. [OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS]. Now I will turn the meeting over to Mr. Gregg Swearingen, Vice President of Investor Relations. Sir, you may begin. GREGG SWEARINGEN, VP IR, NCR CORPORATION: Thank you, Lori. Good morning, and thanks for
A gap-year industry placement initiative is appealing to businesses in the West Midlands to take part in its scheme, which gives students vital work experience during a one-year contract. The national not-for-profit Year In Industry - YINI - scheme finds paid, degree-relevant work placements for
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2005-12-20
EDUCATION MATTERS : Gap year placement appeal to companies Edition: FIRST Section: News A gap-year industry placement initiative is appealing to businesses in the West Midlands to take part in its scheme, which gives students vital work experience during a one-year contract. The national
Byline: Ken Stammen Dec. 16--Reduced Medicaid spending could cost Ohio 24,000 jobs, including 3,459 in Franklin County, a study has found. The study, released yesterday, was conducted by researchers at Ohio State University on behalf of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, a nonpartisan
Source: The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Byline: Dan Alaimo, Wendy Toth, Darla Mercado Strictly by the numbers, nonfood sales are limping into 2006. While not true for every retailer and every category, statistics reported by the major data companies Information Resources Inc., Chicago, and ACNielsen, Schaumburg, Ill., have shown a
Byline: Diwata Fonte The Fresno Bee VISALIA -- Houses take shape miles from their final destinations at a new production plant in Visalia. Workers hammer together frameworks for roofs, floors and -- in a month -- walls, with the help of blinking laser images projected onto a table. A house will be
Source: The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Byline: Dan Mihalopoulos, Todd Lighty and Laurie Cohen, Chicago Tribune Dec. 18--Mayor Richard Daley defended former top aide Victor Reyes as a great public servant when asked Saturday about newly unsealed court records linking Reyes to the City Hall hiring scandal. In court documents whose details
Source: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-20
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Dateline: WELLINGTON, New Zealand Air New Zealand said Monday it will outsource heavy maintenance of its wide body jet engines next year but will hold off on an earlier plan to shift an additional 500 engineering jobs. In a statement, the national carrier said about 110 jobs would be lost in the
Vic:TAC workers to strike over job cuts MELBOURNE, Dec 19 AAP - Workers from the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) will strike for 24 hours from 8am (AEDT) today after a Victorian government decision to scrap 70 jobs. Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) from the TAC will
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2005-12-20
Job-related deaths rising for Hispanics By ELIZABETH LLORENTE, STAFF WRITER Date: 12-19-2005, Monday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions Juan Garcia was only 19 and making repairs to the ceiling of MHI Inc. in Teterboro last year when he came into contact with a 480-volt electrical wire. He suffered
Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Posted: 2005-12-20
JOBS WILL GO AT LDV ; New owners to cut 200 staff Byline: BOB HAYWOOD Edition: 1 STAR Section: News SCORES of jobs will be lost at Birmingham van-makers LDV despite a last-gasp rescue deal, the Sunday Mercury can reveal. The new American owners will be looking to cut the 1,200-strong workforce by
Edgar Ortega reported from New York and Ann Saphir from Chicago.* Willie Grant, a fixture at the New York Stock Exchange since 1961, was enjoying a day off last week when he got a call from his employer. Grant, 84, is now out of a job.Grant checked coats, as well as the smocks that identify
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2005-12-20