SA: Mitsubishi to cut more jobs =2 Mitsubishi workers affected by the 250 job cuts will have access to a government assistance fund created for Holden workers, South Australian Premier Mike Rann said. The government provided a $2.5 million package for Holden workers when a third shift at the
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-01-21
SA: Mitsubishi confirms job cuts, lower production By Tim Dornin ADELAIDE, Jan 20 AAP - Embattled car maker Mitsubishi is to cut 250 jobs at its Adelaide vehicle assembly plant as rising petrol prices bite into the large car market. President and chief executive officer Rob McEniry said the company
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Byline: By Chris Morley INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT UP TO 100 workers who lost their jobs in the collapse of Longbridge are to be given the chance of a skills passport to another job. A new programme is being launched by the Birmingham-based Automotive Academy to make redundant workers more
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-01-21
DIXONS and Currys owner DSG International said yesterday it planned to cut office-based posts as part of a drive for savings of around pounds 20m. The company said it would look to achieve the reduction through normal staff turnover, rather than redundancies. Newspaper reports put the number of
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Dixons and Currys owner DSG International said yesterday it planned to cut back on office-based posts as part of a drive for savings of around pounds 20m. The company, which employs more than 40,000 in the UK and Europe, said it would look to achieve the reduction in its back-office staff through
Source: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Canada-based Bombardier recently announced that it would move 150 manufacturing jobs to a plant in Mexico in 2007. The following year, another 150 jobs will be moved to Mexico from its facility in Valcourt, Quebec. Bombardier officials cited a strong Canadian dollar and Asian competition forced the
Dateline: CHICAGO Hollinger International Inc., owner of the Chicago Sun-Times said it will cut 10 percent of its staff, or about 300 jobs, in an effort to streamline operations. The New York-based company said Thursday most of the cuts to be made within the Sun-Times News Group would come through
Dateline: CHICAGO The company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times said Thursday it will cut 10 percent of its staff, or about 300 jobs, in an effort to streamline operations. Hollinger International Inc. said most of the cuts to be made within the Sun-Times News Group would come through a "voluntary
Dateline: DETROIT In a survey released this week, Ford Motor Co. ranked last among major automakers in the use of its North American plant capacity. It was the latest blow for the 103-year-old automaker, which closed out 2005 with its tenth straight year of U.S. market share losses. The company
Byline: Gary Parkinson Unions questioned yesterday the motives for the latest job losses set to hit the British confectionery industry. Leaf UK plans to shut its factory at Southport, Mer-seyside, where Chewits sweets are made, with the loss of up to 124 jobs. Those jobs will be shipped to eastern
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Job losses as components factory shuts Edition: FIRST Section: Business A Midland car components factory is to close with the loss of 175 jobs after being hit by the collapse last year of MG Rover. GKN Sinter Metals in Lichfield, Staffordshire, will shut by the middle of the year as part of a
Byline: Karen Mclauchlan Ten thousand jobs for the region is the ambitious target set by an enterprising campaign being launched on Teesside today. Stockton-based business start-up organisation InBiz is unveiling its Project 10k which aims to see 7,500 new companies - creating thousands of jobs -
CONSTRUCTION labourers from Merseyside say they are struggling to find jobs in Liverpool despite the city undergoing its biggest transformation since the Second World War. Scores of skilled bricklayers, plumbers, joiners and steelfixers say they are failing to land jobs on Liverpool building sites,
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Byline: Dave Flessner Jan. 20--After losing her job and apartment last month, Aisha Shahid thought her fortunes had turned around when she was offered a $1,600-a-week job at a celebrity night club about to open in Atlanta. But the dream job offered to Ms. Shahid and dozens of other Chattanoogans
Dateline: ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. Hall of Fame receiver James Lofton interviewed for the Buffalo Bills coaching job Thursday. The former Bills player and current San Diego Chargers receivers coach is the fourth candidate to meet with team owner Ralph Wilson and general manager Marv Levy in their search
Ex-state treasurer lands job with securities firm Ryan Beck By RICHARD NEWMAN, STAFF WRITER Date: 01-20-2006, Friday Section: BUSINESS Edtion: All Editions Former state Treasurer John E. McCormac has taken a senior position in the municipal bond department at the Florham Park-based securities firm
Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Byline: By LIAM HORAN AROUND 120 staff could be back at C&D Foods within two weeks after a factory fire left 500 people jobless, it emerged yesterday. The news came after a meeting between union officials and bosses of the company owned by former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. Siptu official Seamus
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Byline: By Jonathan Walker POLITICAL EDITOR MORE than 100,000 calls from West Midland jobless people seeking benefit payments and advice on finding work have gone unanswered because of a malfunctioning computer system, ministers admitted. A state-of-the-art call answering system, designed to make
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Byline: Nick Jackson For most people temping is hardly a career, more a useful platform for fledgling high flyers or as a way to build up funds to escape to something better. But the variety, flexibility, and the freedom to think about something apart from your job outside office hours can make
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Byline: Stella M. Hopkins Jan. 20--Charlotte employment agency founder Michelle Fish interviewed a woman this week who is worried about losing her computer graphics job to cheaper workers overseas. She wants to break into health care, Fish, head of IntegraRX Solutions, said of the job-seeker.
Source: The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina ) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Official is out of job as posts are combined -- Prospect Park mayor cites taxpayer relief as reason By PAUL BRUBAKER, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD Date: 01-19-2006, Thursday Section: LOCAL Edtion: Two Star P PROSPECT PARK - The Borough Council has removed the borough administrator and combined the job
Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Posted: 2006-01-21
Byline: Erin Holmes Daily Herald Staff Writer Two new faces - a financial expert now overseeing the budgets in a Carpentersville school system and a bilingual educator currently employed in Schaumburg - officially have joined the staff of Des Plaines Elementary District 62. The board Tuesday named
Source: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Posted: 2006-01-21
OPERATOR: Welcome to the Monsanto first quarter 2006 results conference call. [OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS] As a reminder this conference call is being recorded Wednesday, January 4, 2006. I would now like to turn the conference call over to Ms. Scarlett Foster, who is the Vice President of Investor
(The Crimson White) (U-WIRE) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- While some students only bunker down in libraries until late at night at crunch time, Lindsay Kelley gladly stays at Rodgers Library during the wee hours of the morning -- usually midnight to 2 a.m. She has to -- she works there. Kelley, a sophomore
CHICAGO, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- One-in-five sales workers are not happy in their current positions and 33 percent say they plan to change jobs by the end of the year, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey. Workers cite dissatisfaction with pay, increased workload and the lack of career
Headline: Plans approved to help Gaza evacuees find jobs Byline: YIGAL GRAYEFF Edition; Daily Section: News Page: 04 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 -- The ministerial committee for disengagement has approved proposals to help the Gaza and Northern Samaria evacuees find jobs. The Ministry of Industry,