Byline: Chris Cobbs Feb. 2--EA Tiburon, the Orlando studio known for its popular Madden NFL video-game series, said Wednesday it is eliminating about 35 jobs because of a lull in game sales. Even as the studio announced it was trimming just less than 5 percent of its 746-person work force, it also
Source: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: By DAVID JONES Business Correspondent DEESIDE Industrial Parkbased healthcare company Provalis is to sell its pharmaceutical business to Northern Irelandbased Galen Ltd for pounds 10.5m. Forty jobs will be lost in the move with redundancy notices going out to sales representatives and some
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Small to medium-sized building companies in the West Midlands are seeing work tailing off - the worst performance in the country. And jobs are set to go. Workloads were well below expectations during the last quarter of 2005 - the lowest of all nine Government Office regions in England, according
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: Julia Kollewe Eliza Tinsley, a West Midlands tool and garden equipment maker which traces its history back to 1851, yesterday lost its battle to stave off administration, putting 980 jobs at risk. Shares in Tinsley, which bears the name of the company founder, were suspended on the
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: Timothy J. Gibbons Feb. 2--Some of the photographs look like they came from the 1930s. Others show people working with up-to-the minute machinery. In both cases, the pictures -- part of an exhibit called Faces of the Port -- show the type of jobs held down by thousands of workers who keep
Source: The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: By NICK COLIGAN Political Reporter TEACHERS in Liverpool could be sacked after a council blunder left primary schools owing pounds 720,000. Liverpool education officials have apologised for miscalculating their budgets. Heads say jobs could go to make up the deficit and warned falling pupil
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: By Mike Ritchie CAREERS Scotland is a national organisation with a clear and simple purpose - to help the people of Scotland secure the jobs of tomorrow. It offers a range of career planning and information services to enable people of all ages to maximise their career potential. Last year,
Source: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: By ED CARTY MORE than 50 jobs are to be axed after a bicycle parts manufacturer yesterday announced it plans to close. SRAM Ireland said it will wind down over the next nine months. A total of 53 jobs will be lost at the Carrick-on-Suir factory in Co Tipperary, including 31 permanent and 22
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
UP to 500 jobs could be created at a former Black Country steel tubes factory following a massive refurbishment. The 12-acre former Newman Tipper Tubes complex in Western Way, Wednesbury, will be broken up into separate units. Plans for the transformation are being drawn up by Richard Norgrove,
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: By Ross Smith A senior Conservative last night pledged to take the Go For Jobs campaign to the top of his party. Party chairman Francis Maude met the North-East Chamber of Commerce yesterday on a visit to Newcastle to discuss problems of development near major roads. He said there was a
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: By Paul McMillan Young graduate Stephen Hind has successfully persuaded the professionals to take him on, thanks to the Chronicle. Stephen was in his final year at Leeds Metropolitan University studying for a BA (Hons) in public relations when he saw an advertisement in the Chronicle jobs
By hayley beattie WORKERS who returned after the Christmas break to find they had lost their jobs have been offered new positions at a nearby factory. Twenty five jobs at paint packaging company Servicetoken in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, were lost after directors Lynn Lunn and Michael Dodds put
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
The Daily Record Recruitment and Training Show runs between February 9 and 11. On Thursday the show is open from 2pm to 9pm, on Friday from 10am to 6pm and on Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Entry is free. For more information, visit www.scotcareers.co.uk CAPTION(S): EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW: A page
Source: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Meet halfway I am unhappy with my salary. I left school with A-levels and went to work at a small TV company as a PA and receptionist. I also help with research and run errands. I have now been made marketing assistant and have been staying late and missing lunch because of the workload. I reminded
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
CTE, Inc., the Community Action Agency for Greater Stamford and a local nonprofit employment and training provider, demonstrated recently that preparation is 90% of the battle in helping their clients get hired in an economy still lagging in new jobs. After participating in a job fair held by
Source: Fairfield County Business Journal
Posted: 2006-02-02
More Than 25,000 Applications for 325 Jobs; Highest Ever Received for a Wal-Mart Store EVERGREEN PARK, Ill., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fulfilling the growing needs of employment in Chicago-area communities, the new Wal-Mart in Evergreen Park will open its doors earlier than originally
Foreign Automakers Offset Job Losses in U.S. Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER Time: 11:00-12:00 PM LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: On Wednesdays our business report focuses on the workplace. Today, how many autoworkers are still going to factories? General Motors and Ford plan to shrink in the coming years to a size
In China, a Rare Return; Lunar New Year Allows Migrant Workers to Leave Jobs in Cities for Rural Homes Byline: Peter S. Goodman Washington Post Foreign Service Edition: FINAL Section: A Section TANQIU VILLAGE, China -- On almost every other day, Cai Weilan wakes up hundreds of miles away in a
Byline: By MARY MURTAGH A YEAR ago the Asian tsunami almost cost Steven Connolly his life. Twelve months on the disaster has cost him his savings and livelihood and could cost him his marriage. The 46-year-old from Liverpool made a new life for himself and his Sri Lankan-born wife Verena in the
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: GEORGE HESSELBERG ghesselberg@madison.com 608-252-6140 DELAVAN -- Pam Niemuth will soon be in charge of up to 1,000 refugees, some only 2 years old, all incapable of opening a can of food by themselves. Niemuth runs the Geneva Lakes Greyhound Track adoption center, and her leash on the
Source: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Over the past few years, prescription drug advertising has been a matter of great debate. From politicians to consumer advocates, all have been critical of the impact that drug advertising may be having on the affordability of these products to consumers, as well as its impact on overall U.S.
Soc: Sven tips Hiddink for England job: report England coach SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON has reportedly hinted that GUUS HIDDINK will be his successor as England coach. The Sun newspaper reported that ERIKSSON was dining with his partner in a Stockholm restaurant when he told diners that the Socceroos and
Byline: Philip Thornton Economics Correspondent European footwear manufacturers warned yesterday up to 600,000 jobs were at risk unless Brussels acted to stem a flood of cheap imports from China. Anci, the trade body for shoemakers in Italy, one of the worst-affected countries, urged the European
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: David Gray DEFENCE Secretary John Reid claimed Rosyth Dockyard would be under threat if Scotland were independent. But an independent Scotland in the EU would have the same right to tender for work as Poland did for the Scottish Fisheries Protection vessels - with the added safeguard of
Source: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Dateline: NEW YORK Cosmetics company Revlon Inc. expects to report a modest increase in sales for 2005 and is undertaking an overhaul of its business in which it will eliminate about 165 jobs cuts _ or just under 2.5 percent of its global work force _ in an effort to reduce costs. The New York
French unemployment, a scourge that has haunted successive governments, is on a downward trend, slipping to its lowest level in almost three years at the end of last year.But as ministers welcomed the decline as a sign that recent labor-market measures were showing early results, economists pointed
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-02-02
JOBS are being created at a North Wales-based yacht dealership after a solid first year for the business. Majestic Yachts International based at Deganwy Quay Marina specialises in Fairline powerboats which are handbuilt in the UK and cost up to pounds 2.5m. Director Adrian Smith said the business,
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Fuji Photo Film, the biggest Japanese maker of photographic film, said Tuesday that it would eliminate 5,000 jobs and shift some production to China in a reorganization that it said was likely to reduce full-year profit by 77 percent. Net income will fall to 20 billion, or $171 million, in the year
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-02-02
Bush places focus on jobs, health care -- President tries to give GOP chance in midterm vote By RONALD BROWNSTEIN, SPECIAL FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Date: 02-01-2006, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edtion: Two Star B. ALSO IN. Two Star P WASHINGTON Chastened. Deferential. Modest. These are not
Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: Christopher Rowland Feb. 1--The two biggest healthcare unions in Massachusetts are waging a high-stakes battle over fewer than 50 nursing jobs at a cancer center being built at Boston Medical Center, prompting hospital officials to take the unusual step of asking federal officials for help.
Source: The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-02
The notion of a jobless recovery was widely debated in the United States during the 2004 presidential campaign, but these days the problem seems to have taken on a more global relevance.The latest data compiled by the International Labor Organization show solid growth in the global economy of
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-02-02
Fed: Kimberly-Clark will close NSW mill, 174 jobs shed SYDNEY, Feb 1 AAP - Nappy and paper-products manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Australia will shed 174 jobs in NSW when it shuts its south-west Sydney mill. The company, which produces Huggies nappies, Kleenex tissues and toilet paper, and Kotex
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-02-02
NSW:Aeroplane Jelly makers relocate to Vic, lose 34 NSW jobs Herb and spice manufacturer McCormick Foods Australia will shift production of the iconic Aeroplane Jelly brand from New South Wales to Victoria .. with the loss of 34 jobs at its Sydney plant. The move .. which is expected to create 15
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-02-02
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Dateline: LAKE FOREST, Ill. Hospital-products manufacturer Hospira Inc. said Wednesday it plans to close two plants in Ohio and Canada and phase out another in Illinois due to the high cost of manufacturing in those areas and excess capacity of certain product lines. Some 1,100 jobs will be
Kraft Foods is paying a price now that Americans are spending more at restaurants and less at the supermarket.Kraft, which makes brands like Oreo Cookies, Oscar Meyer, Velveeta and Jell-O, announced a second restructuring on Monday, one that would eliminate 8,000 jobs, or 8 percent of the total,
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-02-02
A new programme that matches sixth form students with a major employer in Darlington is set to be extended following the success of the partnership. BiB insurance and financial services group linked up with Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College to offer students a route into work straight after A
E is for equal opportunities officer THE aim of equal opportunities officers is to ensure no-one within an organisation experiences discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, age or religious belief. Their main focus is on tackling discrimination in recruitment
Jobs lost despite good business Edition: FIRST Section: Business The Midlands is the only UK region to have recorded three consecutive quarters of falling employment, despite business picking up at the end of 2005. According to the PKF SME Index - a quarterly survey of 800 SMEs operating in the
Byline: Thomas Content Feb. 1--Wisconsin ranks eighth in the nation in terms of potential job gains that could be linked to an expansion of renewable energy, a report released Tuesday said. The Wisconsin Apollo Alliance and the Renewable Energy Policy Product report said the state ranks fourth in
Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-02
Byline: Alan Plews Ian hits right note in his new career WHEN the decline of the North-east club entertainment scene threatened to pull the rug from under the livelihood of musician Ian Boseley, he knew he would have to change his tune and pursue a different career. Ian and his singer wife Angela