Tyco Electronics Corp. said Thursday it will close its Spartanburg County plant by the end of the year, eliminating about 300 local jobs.
Professionals seeking part-time opportunities generally look in vain for meaningful, well-paid positions. Jobs advertised as flexible tend to be scut work, entry level or work-at-home scams.
The parent company of subprime lender Ameriquest Mortgage Co. said Thursday it was slashing its work force and consolidating operations in its retail call centers and wholesale loan production offices.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm told Free Press columnist Tom Walsh this week that German companies she was visiting had plans that would create 462 jobs in Michigan. Here's a sampling of readers' reactions posted at freep.com:
Eight days of intensive efforts by public and private officials led to a deal that is expected to create 500 jobs in Rochester over the next six years.
TIAA-CREF, the leading provider of retirement savings products and services in the academic, medical and cultural fields, announced today that Lewisville, Texas will be the site for its National Contact Center expansion, bringing 350 new local jobs to the Lewisville and Dallas area over the next two years.
The tourists are coming. That is the consensus of the opinions offered by local tourism officials, the very people whose jobs include attracting visitors to the Coulee Region. Those folks, by the way, arent very worried about the cost of gasoline.