Byline: Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News A new consumer watchdog group is targeting what it calls an unfair tilt in the scales of civil justice toward the insurance industry and other big-business interests. I want it to be balanced, said Patty Skolnik, 57, who founded Colorado Citizens for
American Express to Cut More Jobs; 5,500-Plus to Be Laid Off, Mostly in Travel Unit, as Reduced Bookings Take Toll Byline: Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: Financial American Express Co., the financial services giant that is also the largest U.S. travel agency,
SHARON, Pa., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced the investment of $265,000 to help a leading software solutions company expand its headquarters and create 60 new, high-paying technology jobs within three years in the city of Sharon. Everyday, our economic development
CUNA MUTUAL CUTS 90 MORE JOBS ; 55 WORKERS WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS IN MADISON Byline: BEN FISCHER bfischer@madison.com 608-252-6123 Edition: ALL Section: BUSINESS Another 55 workers at CUNA Mutual Group in Madison learned Thursday that they will lose their jobs as the credit union insurer continues
Source: Wisconsin State Journal
Posted: 2006-02-15
14 jobs to go when the Belgrade closes ; REFURBISHMENT: Posts to be reinstated when theatre reopens, saybosses Byline: Sam Webb Edition: First Section: Business AT LEAST 14 jobs are to go at the Belgrade Theatre when it closes for a pounds 12 million refurbishment. The full-time jobs, all of them
Over the past five years, Adecco, the temporary employment agency, has found working in Germany tedious. These days, though, it is noticing a sea change that may inject flexibility into a rigid labor market and make Adecco a lot of money as European economies edge out of a long slump.Several years
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-02-15
Byline: Thomas Nelson The recent jobs picture has been an uncomfortably familiar pattern of bad numbers: an extended series of corporate job cuts, a jobless recovery, the outsourcing of more jobs overseas and, most worrisome, the steady rise of national unemployment rolls. Month after month, the
Byline: Richard Craver Feb. 21--BB&T Corp. is considering cutting some back-office jobs as it evaluates potential offshore operations, but officials said yesterday that its work force in Winston-Salem likely would not be impacted. John Allison, the chairman and chief executive of BB&T, said during
Source: Winston-Salem Journal (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-15
Byline: Jim Davis THE FRESNO BEE For the second year in a row, Fresno County officials face cutting hundreds of jobs, including dozens of probation officers, who check on felons, and social workers, who protect abused and neglected children. The county proposes eliminating 425 positions in its
Source: The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)
Posted: 2006-02-15
Hiring of Foreign Workers Frustrates Native Job-Seekers Byline: Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: Financial At a time when few technology companies are hiring and many have laid off hundreds of thousands of workers, the government issued tens of thousands of
Unemployment Down to 5.6%; Job Loss Slows Byline: Neil Irwin Washington Post Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: Financial The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 5.6 percent in January even as the nation shed more jobs, the Labor Department said yesterday. Combined with other new data,
Ford to Cut 35,000 Jobs To Shore Up Finances; Lincoln Continental Production to End Byline: Frank Swoboda Washington Post Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: A Section Ford Motor Co. announced Friday that it will reduce its workforce by 10 percent, close five plants and eliminate four well-known
Ford to Cut 35,000 Jobs, 4 Car Lines Byline: Frank Swoboda Washington Post Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: A Section Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it will reduce its workforce by 10 percent, close five plants and eliminate four well-known models, including the venerable Lincoln
Recruiters Hit With A Reversal Of Fortune; Hiring Freezes Force Some to Switch Jobs Byline: Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: Financial Of all the lost souls to join the ranks of the high-tech unemployed this year, recruiters may have it the worst. People who once