Byline: E.A. Torriero BATTLE CREEK, Mich. _ As nearly 300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees arrived here last week, local residents lined the roads to wave and shout words of greeting. A National Guard training center just outside this southern Michigan city turned into a latter-day Ellis Island. Red
Source: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Posted: 2006-02-23
A jobs fair at the Cebu City Sports Center has attracted thousands of local and overseas job seekers. The 20 jobs fairs nationwide, which started Feb. 21, are part of the year-long series of fairs hosted mainly by the countryas network of public employment service offices (PESOs) in cooperation
A pounds 2 million call centre in Stratford-upon-Avon that has created 100 jobs in the past two years has announced it is to add a further 50 posts. Credit management organisation BCW Group, which has its head office in Scotland, claims to be one of the fastest growing organisations in the Midlands.
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: By ELAINE KEOGH IRISH workers were dealt a devastating blow yesterday when it was announced an electronics plant will close with the loss of 350 jobs. Japanese company NEC Semiconductors said it is shutting its base in Ballivor, Co Meath. The news came as a shock to employees - many of them
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: Renita Fennick Feb. 22--HAZLE TWP. -- Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. is close to sealing a deal to build a cocoa processing plant in the Humboldt Industrial Park, a coveted $95 million investment that would create at least 200 full-time jobs. The Decatur, Ill.-based company
Source: The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Feb. 22--Whoever said the manufacturing economy was on its knees got it wrong. In Twin Falls, the manufacturing sector is rolling along just fine and gaining speed. The growth and success of Jayco Inc. and its new assembly plant in Twin Falls continues to be one of the brightest economic
Source: The Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
RU: Miller lands bank job By Steve Connolly BRISBANE, Feb 22 AAP - Queensland rugby union coach Jeff Miller will start a new career in banking when he finishes with the Reds at the end of the current Super 14 season. Miller, who is being replaced at the Reds by former Wallabies coach Eddie Jones,
Byline: Georgie Pilcher Feb 22, 2006 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Agricultural education in Victoria is provided by Melbourne University, La Trobe University and Marcus Oldham College. Officials at the schools report that demand for agriculture graduates is high. Nigel Crawley, of
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2006-02-23
M2 PRESSWIRE-12 January 2006-Research and Markets: The mail-order pharmacies market grows as large companies such as Microsoft and General Motors offer mandatory mail-order benefits to their employees.(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13012006 Dublin: Research and Markets
-- Proprietary automation/technology proven 23 times more accurate than retail benchmark -- Study supports national movement toward use of technology to improve patient safety FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Echoing the call of legislators and healthcare visionaries to
NEW YORK -- The drug store industry is being increasingly confronted with a major threat to its top and bottom lines--mandatory mail-order prescription drug programs. These programs, generally imposed by pharmacy benefits management companies, not only impact the sales of prescription drugs, the
PHILADELPHIA -- Pharmacy benefits management companies (PBMs) have traditionally assured their clients that they have a choice as it pertains to the way prescriptions are dispensed to their members but that choice usually comes down to an option of one, mail order, according to Bob Zimmerman,
CHICAGO, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly one-in-five government workers are dissatisfied with their current jobs and 17 percent say they plan to change jobs this year, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey. Workers cite increased workload, lack of effective leadership and dissatisfaction
Workers who are losing their jobs from a troubled firm are being thrown an employment lifeline. The 85 workers at Hill Industries, based in Caerphilly, who were told last week they were due to be made redundant in October, are to get help from the WDA in an effort to find new jobs. The WDA is to
Source: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: Monica Guzman Feb. 2--Houston police have searched nationally to fill their thinning ranks, traveling as far as Detroit and Pittsburgh in hope of luring experienced officers to the Bayou City. But it turns out the most eager applicants are right next door. Fifty-three Harris County
UNIDENTIFIED COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE: Okay, good morning everyone. The next company will be Celgene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company based in Summit, New Jersey, focused on the development and commercialization of products for oncology and inflammatory diseases. They just got Revlimid
OPERATOR: Good morning. My name is Luwana and I will be your conference operator today. At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Centene fourth quarter 2005 earnings results conference. [OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS] Ms. Wilson you may begin your conference. LISA WILSON, SVP IR, CENTENE
OPERATOR: Welcome to the WellPoint conference call. At this time all lines are in a listen-only mode. Later there will be a question-and-answer session; instructions will be given at that time. (OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS). As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the
In D.C., a Caring Response to Katrina Edition: FINAL Section: Editorial On Sept. 6 the American Red Cross sent a team to Dulles Airport to welcome about 300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees who were destined for the D.C. Armory [front page, Sept. 7]. I was the physician leader for the Red Cross team. The
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND Contractors (ABC) and the military placement agency Orion International recently launched www.veterans buildamerica.org, a new interactive site that links military veterans with available positions in the construction trades. We realize that the transition from military life
Life really did begin again at 40 for Tania Harvey. Out of work for a number of years she is now the proud owner of a food hygiene certificate, has begun an adult education course, begins a computing course at the end of the month - and is happily married again. After leaving school at 15 with no
Byline: Kristen A. Graham Feb. 22--With the very real possibility of having to cut programs and lay off teachers by the dozen, the Cherry Hill school board has never had a budget quite this grim. The nine-member board had its first public discussion of a tentative $163.5 million budget last night.
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Soc: Popovic backs Hiddink for England job LONDON, Feb 22 PA - Socceroos and Crystal Palace defender Tony Popovic believes Australian boss Guus Hiddink would do a fine job as England manager. Popovic insists the English Football Association could do much worse than to make Hiddink - who is also in
Byline: Grant Smith Feb. 22--ON THE WEB: Public Service Commission: www.psc.state. wv.us; Longview: www.genpower .net/longview/; Citizens for Alternatives to Longview Power: www.nolongview.com. More than 100 people packed the WVU Erickson Alumni Center on Tuesday morning to voice opinions on the
Source: The Dominion Post (Morgantown, WV) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
H is for Heritage manager Heritage managers are responsible for conservation and all aspects of public access to heritage sites from landscapes to ancient monuments, historic buildings from all periods and museums. Managers are increasingly required to be multi-skilled and to operate within
Metro area added few jobs in 2005 -- Labor Dept. report shows region trailing national growth rate By RICHARD NEWMAN, STAFF WRITER Date: 02-22-2006, Wednesday Section: BUSINESS Edtion: All Editions The number of jobs in the New York metropolitan area grew in 2005, but only a tad, the federal
Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Posted: 2006-02-23
WASHINGTON, Oct 24, 2005 (U.S. Newswire via COMTEX) -- American Shareholders Association (ASA) today criticized the California Public Utilities Commission for suggesting they will impose conditions on telecommunications merger approvals by forcing a divesture of certain assets and possibly imposing
Byline: Jennifer Mann Jun. 24--Interstate Bakeries Corp. said Thursday that it would keep open all six bakeries in its Southern California territory but consolidate routes, depots and thrift stores, eliminating 350 jobs. It was the fifth consolidation announcement since late April, marking the
Source: The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: Wayne Heilman May 5--A year after announcing plans to move a claims center employing 350 to Colorado Springs, the California State Automobile Association said it will hire up to 150 more employees here within a year. That will increase staffing at the center to the 500-person level the AAA
Source: The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 14--It was a match made for IPO-land. The Chinese entrepreneur was looking for money. The American venture capitalist was looking for a start-up with the potential to be the hottest job-search company in China.
Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: Chris Serres; Staff Writer Sung Won Sohn, a widely quoted Wells Fargo & Co. economist known for his offbeat analysis and contrarian predictions, is leaving after 30 years to run his own bank. Sohn, a native of Seoul, South Korea, will be president and chief executive officer of Hanmi
Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: 2006-02-23
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A four-lane highway linking Romania westward to Hungary and the rest of Central Europe and eastward to the Black Sea will be built with the assistance of a $180 million loan guarantee from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) to support U.S.
Byline: Ann E. Marimow Aug. 26--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California could save millions of dollars purchasing low-cost prescription drugs from Canada, under legislation approved Wednesday in the Assembly. Democrats and Republicans championed the measure designed to encourage the state to buy cheaper
Source: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer AP Worldstream 08-19-2004 Dateline: LOS ANGELESLongshore union and port shipping officials sifted through 300,000 applications Thursday submitted as part of a special lottery for 3,000 lucrative temporary dockworker jobs at the largest port complex in the United
Byline: Jim Zebora Aug. 18--Nearly 50 information technology workers at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Hyperion Solutions Corp., which employs about 600 people in Stamford, saw their jobs disappear last month when the company instituted a global resource optimization in its software development
Source: The Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
AP Worldstream 08-18-2004 Dateline: LOS ANGELESHundreds of thousands of applicants are competing for 3,000 temporary jobs at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, hoping for lucrative wages in an otherwise weak labor market.The jobs, which pay $20 to $28 an hour, were created to handle a record
Byline: Loretta Kalb Jul. 19--As evidence mounts that cellular phone use in cars can be hazardous, employers are being forced to weigh the prospect of lost productivity versus the potential for accidents and resulting legal liability. The California Association of Employers is recommending that
Source: The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California ) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-02-23
New factory set to take us global ; AUTO FIRM: pounds 600,000 investment brings jobs spin-off Byline: Stephen Hallmark Edition: First Section: Business AN AUTOMOTIVE firm has pumped hundreds of thousands of pounds into opening a new factory in Warwick. DCM Products has spent pounds 600,000 on its
Byline: By Chris Morley THE axe could fall on more than 130 Be Wise and QS discount shops as soon next week, putting more than 1,400 jobs in peril. Administrators now running the failed Solihull-founded company confirmed that the 130 stores were on a hit list of branches not considered essential
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: By Stephen Hallmark AN AUTOMOTIVE firm has pumped hundreds of thousands of pounds into opening a new factory in Warwick. DCM Products has spent pounds 600,000 on its new facility at Tachbrook Park. Nine new jobs have been created but bosses are hopeful the figure will rise later this year
Jobs boost as Asda plans store extension Edition: First Section: Business JOBS are set to be created at a Coventry superstore thanks to a multi-million pound expansion. The Asda store in Brade Drive, Walsgrave, is planning to build a 15,000 sq ft extension and is expected double the non-food range
STEPHEN WRIGHT brought some impressive numbers to the judging table -30 years at Conduit Farm in Oxfordshire, 1,300 mares foaled in that time, and six about to foal any minute - hence the need for a quick exit from lunch yesterday. He also brought compassion and dedication to a job that demands
Source: The Racing Post (London, England)
Posted: 2006-02-23
MIDLAND: Firefighter who lost his leg is back on the job Edition: FIRST Section: News A firefighter who lost a leg in a motorcycle crash has returned to active duty with a false limb. Simon Hawkins, aged 31, will carry on driving, climbing ladders, fighting fires and saving people from blazes after
DIGEST: Call centre jobs Edition: FIRST Section: Business A pounds 2 million call centre in Stratford-upon-Avon that has created 100 jobs in the past two years has announced it is to add a further 50 posts. Credit management organisation BCW Group, which has its head office in Scotland, claims to
SA: Labor attacks Liberal plans to cut jobs ADELAIDE, Feb 22 AAP - Liberal plans to axe 4,000 public service jobs in South Australia would cost $300 million and take police off the streets, says state Treasurer Kevin Foley. The Liberal plan was outlined in brief yesterday as the opposition moved to
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: Hugh Templeton THOUGH treated disgracefully, Department of Work and Pensions staff facing job cuts would elicit more sympathy if they dealt with applicants in a respectful manner. Someone I know was told their form, submitted five weeks ago, had been incorrectly processed and they might
Source: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Posted: 2006-02-23
Byline: Jon Newberry Post staff reporter New and expanding businesses invested more than $475 million in Northern Kentucky during the 16 months that ended Dec. 31, bringing with it commitments for 3,147 new area jobs. The 43 companies responsible for that growth were recognized this morning at a
Source: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
Posted: 2006-02-23