Byline: By OONAGH BLACKMAN, Political Editor EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly has just three days to save her job in the school sex offenders row, a Labour MP said yesterday. Backbencher Ian Gibson said: I think by the middle of the week she had better have some good answers to some of the questions
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
Back before he started single-handedly defending the U.S.-Mexican border, CNN personality Lou Dobbs was obsessed with an altogether different frontier: space. Perhaps more accurately, Dobbs got momentarily wobbly at the sight of workaday schlubs on far lower rungs of the journalistic ladder
Byline: By Graeme King A call for redundancies at cooker manufacturer Electrolux in County Durham has been well oversubscribed, thanks to a 30-year-old agreement. The Swedish company announced last November it was seeking 50 voluntary redundancies from its 520 Spennymoor shopfloor workers ( but it
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
A sex worker who was sacked from her job on an adult chatline has won her complaint of unfair dismissal in a case believed to be the first of its kind. Irene Everitt was dismissed by Datapro Services after being accused of gross professional misconduct, including trying to persuade fellow operators
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
Byline: By Paul McMillan Swans boss plans to recycle ships Swans boss Jaap Kroese today said he had secured a licence to break ships on the Tyne, saving hundreds of jobs. The Wallsend yard boss said he has had confirmation from the Environment Agency that he will receive a licence. The official
Mainland legislator assumes islands job ; Ben Dudley, soon to be evicted by term limits, talks about balancing duties. Byline: MARK PETERS Staff Writer Edition: Final Section: Local & State Ben Dudley soon will have a different commute. Instead of driving to Augusta, the state representative
Byline: Claudia Mel Jan. 17--An appellate court has ruled in favor of Hartnell College in the protracted battle between the college and its former nursing director, Lydia Hampton Stewart. The 6th Appellate District Court in December reversed a ruling by a Monterey County court that ordered Hartnell
Source: Monterey County Herald (Monterey, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-18
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Byline: Michele Reaves Staff writer An Ohio zoo has tapped Anne Baker, director of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, as one of two finalists for its executive director position. Toledo Zoo officials are considering Baker and Donald E. Moore III, a former Rosamond Gifford Zoo curator, for the job. Moore is
Source: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Posted: 2006-01-18
Byline: Barbara Rose Jan. 12--Workers who make a living inside gritty industrial plants would seem unlikely champions for pharmacists, with their white coats and nearly six-figure salaries. But there they stood Wednesday--steelworkers in short-brimmed caps alongside pharmacists wearing ties and
Source: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-18
LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- Sophia Hernandez likes to keep busy. At age 22 she is balancing life as a part-time college student with working full-time as a SIMS (Strategic Inventory Management System) coordinator at one of the three Walgreen Co. stores in this city on the New Mexico/Texas border. Only a
Byline: By Graeme King The boss of a Tyneside chemical plant where 45 jobs are to go says the cheaper cost of production in China has caused the downfall of his facility. Dr Graham Cleland, plant manager at Rohm and Haas in Jarrow, South Tyneside, said the acrylic Ion Exchange Resin (IER) plant was
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
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WASHINGTON, Jan 17, 2006 (U.S. Newswire via COMTEX) -- The Labor Department has awarded a $99,000 non-competitive grant to help veterans uprooted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita find jobs. Homeless veterans face special challenges in rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the two hurricanes,
Armstrong Burton jobs and turnover on the rise Edition: FIRST Section: Business West Midland group Armstrong Burton has announced a jobs boost along with record turnover. Staff numbers are up 40 per cent over the past year - from 21 in 2004 to 52 now. Turnover has risen from pounds 1.8 million for
THE historic warships exhibition in Wirral is closing down. The 11-strong staff at the Warship Preservation Trust will lose their jobs next month after the decision to place the organisation into liquidation. It means one of the last surviving German U-boats will be forced to leave the Mersey. The
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
The Silicon Valley region has added new jobs over a calendar year for the first time since 2002, providing evidence that an economic resurgence is under way in the region, according to a new report.While the number of new jobs added in 2005 2,000 was modest, the data in the report released Sunday
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-01-18
A total of 25 tourism ministers and their representatives from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and neighboring countries a 15 nations in all a will converge in Davao City today for the opening of the 2006 ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) in an effort to boost tourism and
Del Laboratories cuts 330 jobs with closings Byline: DOW JONES/AP Edition: Third Edition Section: Business Memo: EMPLOYMENT Del Laboratories Inc. will lay off about 330 employees, or nearly 21 percent of its work force, because it is ending operations at two warehouses and converting a factory to a
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Posted: 2006-01-18
West Midland group Armstrong Burton has announced a jobs boost along with record turnover. Staff numbers are up 40 per cent over the past year - from 21 in 2004 to 52 now. Turnover has risen from pounds 1.8 million for 2004 to pounds 3.2 million last year, a jump of 77 per cent. The Sutton
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
MERSEYSIDE has been dealt another jobs blow after Wirral food maker BakeMark announced 74 redundancies. The Bromborough-based firm will reduce its 600-strong workforce, spread between two sites on Merseyside and in Manchester, through voluntary redundancies, said managing director Marco Bertacca.
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
Byline: BY DEBORAH JAMES Daily Post Staff HOME Office workers are considering industrial action after the department announced its accounts branch was being moved out of Liverpool, because the government could not find enough high calibre accountants in the city. Union workers last night branded
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
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Byline: By Rebekah Ashby More than 200 North-East factory workers are facing the dole queue today after their company went into administration last night ( for the third time in four years. Administrators for South Shields-based Circatex Group ( which formerly traded as Circatex Limited,
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
Seeking to turn around a dismal market for youth employment, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday proposed easing restrictions on hiring and firing workers and offered incentives to employers to give more jobs to young people.Villepin said the measures would help inject dynamism into the
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-01-18
THIRTY one workers who M were kept in the dark over impending job losses at a Stafford firm are set K to receive a total of at least pounds 52,000 between them. Birmingham Employment Tribunal approval protective pay awards, the equivalent of 45 days wages, for all 31 who lost their jobs at A1 Mec
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
NEARLY 20 jobs will be created in a pounds 1.5m investment by CD Bramall Truck North West to set up a full sales and after-sales service for van and truck manufacturer Iveco. The new servicing and repair facility will be based in Bridle Road, Bootle and builds on the mobile Iveco sales team that CD
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
Jan. 17--How does the current job market stack up against its predecessors in earlier times of economic growth? Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach explored this subject in a recent report, The End of Labor. The current recovery started 49 months ago, in November 2001. The expansions Mr.
Source: The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-18
Employees at an award- winning company turned up for work to be told they had lost their jobs. All 17 staff at Red Shark Technologies in Berwick, Northumberland, were told on Friday that the company had suspended trading. They say bosses at the firm, a supplier of printer ink cartridges online,
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
FOOD manufacturer BakeMark is cutting 74 jobs from its 600-strong workforce in Merseyside and Manchester. The company, which makes bakery ingredients and frozen bakery products, said the redundancies were part of a streamlining to focus on five core areas. Managing director Marco Bertacca said the
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-18
CHICAGO, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Help Wanted may become a bigger part of window signage for retailers as 35 percent of retail workers say they plan to shop for a new job in 2006, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey. Workers cite pay, workload and career development as the leading factors