-- Monday after Thanksgiving weekend busiest day of year at medco.com(R) -- -- Medco captures seven eHealthcare Leadership Awards -- FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waiting before dawn outside department stores to scoop up bargains and dealing with too many leftovers are all
Byline: By STEVE HAWKES UNWINS is to disappear from the High Street after bankers last night called time on the off-licence and axed 1,400 staff. Hundreds of full-time workers will miss out on their December pay packet - due just four days after Christmas. Administrator KPMG said there was simply
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
(Cardinal Points) (U-WIRE) PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- "Looking for a job is a full time job." This is the daunting but true unofficial motto of the Career Development Center at Plattsburgh State University College. December graduates are realizing this as the semester ends and they are thrown into the
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE: SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS HOLDS A HEARING ON DRUG DISCOUNT PROGRAM OVERSIGHT DECEMBER 15, 2005 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ED WHITFIELD (R-KY) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CLIFF STEARNS (R-FL) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES "CHIP" PICKERING
Source: Washington Transcript Service
Posted: 2005-12-22
Campaigns for the office of President of the United States begin immediately after a president is elected. The contest becomes a nonstop affair during the final year leading to the election, and 2004 was no different. In many ways the competition between the two candidates played out along familiar
Chandler Regional Hospital, Chandler, Ariz., 138 beds, is seeking a materials manager. E-mail resume to jperna@chw.edu The Catholic Healthcare Initiatives national office in Tacoma, Wash., is seeking a purchasing assistant to provide support for buyers and contract administrators. Contact Tracie
50 FOR HISTORY Byline: Rubis, Leon; Fox, Adrienne; Pomeroy, Ann; Leonard, Bill; Et al Volume: 50 Number: 13 ISSN: 10473149 Publication Date: 12-01-2005 Page: 10 Type: Periodical Language: English Human resource management is an incredibly multidisciplinary endeavor, affected in ways large and small
Byline: Randi F. Marshall Dec. 16--Earlier this week, a New York City insurance company contacted Spherion Corp., a staffing agency, looking for 25 accounting and finance employees to be based throughout the region. Now, Spherion is out to find skilled, knowledgeable workers to fill those slots.
Source: Newsday (Melville, New York) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-22
Byline: Melanie Evans In 2003, hospitals scored a victory in the battle to contain their single largest expense: labor. Continued improvements in productivity cut the number of workers needed to triage, treat and bill patients to its lowest point since 1980. So why do hospital executives nationwide
Byline: Kris Axtman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW ORLEANS -- Jerry La Fleur and her husband moved away from New Orleans a year and a half ago, but quickly felt the pull to return home. Then hurricane Katrina hit, and they knew they had to go back. So they began searching online
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Posted: 2005-12-22
Byline: John Ellis The Fresno Bee Jeffrey W. Eisinger, a Fresno lawyer who works for the Small Business Administration, could lose his job for alleged violations of the Hatch Act, a law that governs political activity by federal employees. On Nov. 17, administrative law judge Joseph Gontram of the
Source: The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)
Posted: 2005-12-22
STEVE INSKEEP Morning Edition (NPR) 05-10-2005 Analysis: Federal judge orders FBI to do a better job searching for information on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombingHost: STEVE INSKEEPTime: 10:00-11:00 AMSTEVE INSKEEP, host: A federal judge has ordered the FBI to do a better job searching its files for
Byline: BY HUGO DUNCAN Daily Post Correspondent AN OFF-LICENCE chain with 350 stores was closed last night with the loss of 1,800 jobs. Administrators at KPMG, appointed to 168-year-old Unwins, said the firm had made excessive losses after tough competition was compounded by its inability to secure
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
Byline: Rob Varnon Dec. 21--The president of Ansonia Copper & Brass said Tuesday that he expects to cut this month fewer than 40 jobs from its work force of 263. President Ray McGee made the remarks after the state Department of Labor announced all 263 workers would be eligible to receive
Source: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Connecticut) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-22
1,800 jobs go at Unwins Edition: FIRST Section: Business Around 1,800 staff at collapsed off-licence chain Unwins were put out of work after administrators closed its remaining stores. KPMG said 400 staff were made redundant on Monday and 1,400 lost their jobs yesterday after last-ditch talks to
Amer Sports, the Finnish maker of Atomic skis and Wilson tennis racquets, said Tuesday it plans to cut as many 400 jobs at its Salomon unit to lower costs. The company aims to save more than 40 million, or $48 million, annually by the end of 2008 through the overhaul, the company said. Most of the
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2005-12-22
Byline: By MIRROR REPORTER TOP civil service jobs worth more than EUR70,000 a year are on offer - but only to those willing to move outside Dublin. The posts will be in 28 locations across Ireland including Portarlington, Co Laois, Longford and Clonakilty, Co Cork. It is part of a drive to get more
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
Around 1,800 staff at collapsed off-licence chain Unwins were put out of work after administrators closed its remaining stores. KPMG said 400 staff were made redundant on Monday and 1,400 lost their jobs yesterday after last-ditch talks to save the 168year-old firm broke down. Joint administrator
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
AROUND 1,800 staff at collapsed off-licence chain Unwins have been put out of work after administrators closed its remaining stores. KPMG said 400 staff were made redundant on Monday and 1,400 lost their jobs yesterday after last-ditch talks to save the 168-year-old firm earlier broke down
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
Byline: BY SOPHIE FREEMAN Business Staff THE Rolls-Royce factory in Merseyside is set to benefit from a highly lucrative South American deal. The company has secured a pounds 40m contract to supply and service off-shore drilling equipment for the Brazilian national oil firm Petrobas - and all the
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
Around 1,800 staff at collapsed off-licence chain Unwins were put out of work yesterday after administrators closed its remaining stores. KPMG said 400 staff were made redundant on Monday and 1,400 lost their jobs yesterday after last-ditch talks to save the 168-year-old firm earlier broke down.
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
Byline: ISABEL OAKESHOTT DEPARTING ministers, diplomats and senior civil servants can make fortunes by taking up jobs in the private sector. Last year, four former ministers consulted the independent advisory committee on business appointments, while 70 senior ex-civil servants had job applications
Source: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-22
There is a burgeoning literature on unilateral action (see, e.g., Cooper 2002; Howell 2003; Mayer 2001). This literature frequently assumes that once orders are written, they are implemented without difficulty. As students of the policy process know, however, implementation post-enactment can be