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ADP report: Job growth accelerated in December
WASHINGTON -- The pace of hiring accelerated in the final month of last year, boosted by solid gains in construction, professional services and trade and transportation, according to a closely followed private survey. The report released Thursday by...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Moody's Corporation, Labor Markets, Employment Opportunities, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
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Fewer courts, less justice
The recently announced major restructuring of the civil courts of the Los Angeles Superior Court has not evoked much of a response. But the significant changes to come should be cause for distress to anyone concerned about open and equal access to justice...
Tags: Trials, Job Layoffs, Finance, Environmental Issues, Judges
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The middle class languishes as the super-rich thrive
The good news for the U.S. economy as we enter 2013 is that the election's over. The bad news is that the election's over. What's good about it is that both parties in Washington can shed their preoccupation with the campaign theatrics that dominated...
Tags: Personal Income, Mitt Romney, Elections, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress
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Barry-Wehmiller has a funny way of valuing its employees
You'd be hard pressed to find a company that talks more about its "people-centric" management culture than Barry-Wehmiller, a privately owned manufacturer of industrial equipment. Barry-Wehmiller, which has $1.5 billion in annual sales, says it's all...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Arts and Culture, St. John's Health Center, Cultural Development, Corporate Officers
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Citigroup to cut 11,000 jobs and take $1-billion charge
WASHINGTON -- Citigroup Inc. will cut 11,000 jobs and take a $1-billion pre-tax charge to its fourth-quarter earnings as it tries to reduce costs and reposition itself under new corporate leadership. The job cuts -- including closing 44 U.S. consumer...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Citigroup Incorporated, Career and Workplace, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Pakistan
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New jobless claims up 17,000 last week, but remain relatively low
WASHINGTON -- More people filed initial jobless claims last week, the first increase in five weeks, as the labor market appeared to have shaken off the effects of Hurricane Sandy. There were 361,000 new claims for unemployment benefits in the week...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Unemployment Benefits, Economic Indicator, Land Price, Labor Markets
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Poor management, not union intransigence, killed Hostess
Let's get a few things clear. Hostess didn't fail for any of the reasons you've been fed. It didn't fail because Americans demanded more healthful food than its Twinkies and Ho-Hos snack cakes. It didn't fail because its unions wanted it to die. It...
Tags: Finance, New Products, Marketing, Companies and Corporations, Grupo Bimbo
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Popular YouTube gaming channel Machinima lays off about 20
Popular YouTube video-game lifestyle channel Machinima is laying off about 10% of its staff as part of a reorganization. The company issued a statement Friday saying it is adjusting staffing to position the company to capitalize on its global growth....
Tags: Job Layoffs, The X-Files (tv program), Entertainment, Gaming, YouTube
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California manufacturing jobs fall through the cracks
The shutdown of a 102-year-old California manufacturing company points to a major flaw in California's industrial development policy: We don't have one. The company is Pneumatic Scale Angelus, which turned out top-of-the-line machines for sealing lids...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Tax Credits, Economic Policy, United Steelworkers, Labor Markets
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Iranian human rights attorney temporarily released from prison
TEHRAN -- Iranian attorney and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was freed for three days from a Tehran prison after more than two years behind bars. "She is suffering from digestive system disorder, her mom is recently deceased, so she needs to be...
Tags: Tehran (Iran), Prisons, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights
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Costa Mesa rescinds 70 layoff notices sent under outsourcing plan
L.A. NOWThe city of Costa Mesa officially rescinded 70 layoff notices Tuesday, after the City Council voted earlier this month to rescind the notices issued to employees whose jobs were at risk under a controversial outsourcing plan proposed in 2011, a news... -
L.A. Council delays layoffs for six months -- again
L.A. NOWThe L.A. City Council has once again found a way to forestall layoffs, voting to avoid nearly 100 job cuts scheduled for Dec. 31....
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