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But so far, the indicator has hardly moved unemployment down, and stayed close to or beyond an alarming recession-level 9 percent for 29 months.

The online retailing giant has submitted a proposal for opening six distribution centers employing about 7,000 Californians. But in exchange, Amazon has requested to be reprieved from the new Internet sales tax law until 2014.

Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of CAI, a human resource management firm that helps organizations maximize employee engagement while minimizing employer liability, has announced the release of the results from the 2011 Wage & Salary Survey. The comprehensive and in-depth survey of more than 485 unique organizations and more than 535 facilities throughout the state of North Carolina reflects consistent and steady increases in annual salary budgets across organizations. CAI’s annual Wage & Salary Survey is the most all-inclusive and wide-spread salary survey conducted of North Carolina employers.

Brady, a company that provides high-efficiency HVAC systems and comprehensive building solutions for commercial and industrial facilities across North Carolina, welcomes Devan Siler as a reliability technician.

As part of its support strategy for client businesses, HR consulting specialist Emplicity is spreading the word about voluntary contributions as a viable unemployment tax planning strategy for lessening the tax burden. Emplicity is a leading HR outsourcing services company specializing in employee management for small and medium-sized businesses.

Passage Home, a nonprofit agency fighting poverty and homelessness in Wake County, has announced that it received a $233,688 donation from the Sunshine Lady Foundation. This donation will go toward the “Harriet’s House” program, a Passage Home venture that helps previously incarcerated women with children re-enter society.

Sally Webb, CSEP, CEO of The Special Event Company, a strategic event and meeting management company, has announced that the firm has been named to the Top 300 Small Businesses in the South by Business Leader magazine. Based on financial performance, including revenue growth, business achievement and community involvement, the Top 300 Small Businesses award recognizes the leading organizations headquartered in the Southern states. The award reception was held at Brier Creek Country Club, where the top 10 small businesses of the South were unveiled.

Despite the retrenchment in summer programs' recruitment nationwide, offices of major firms in Washington are about to hire the same number of associates as 2011, for summer 2012.

The salary of a full time employee permanently residing in Alabama was $42,943 as of July 2010, and the total strength the state government has was more than 37,000 employees before the layoff.

A recently released report by Technavio reveals that the Global Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.1 percent.

According to the Employment Department of Oregon, total nonfarm employment decreased by 3,650 jobs in Benton County, when a decrease of 2,540 jobs would be expected.

Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of CAI, a human resource management firm that helps organizations maximize employee engagement while minimizing employer liability, has announced the company’s September 2011 schedule of training and development seminars. All sessions will be held at CAI’s Greensboro location at 7817 National Service Road, Suite 509, unless otherwise noted.

Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of CAI, a human resource management firm that helps organizations maximize employee engagement while minimizing employer liability, has announced the company’s September 2011 schedule of training and development seminars. All courses will be held at CAI’s Raleigh location at 2900 Highwoods Blvd., unless otherwise noted.

Not just this, but Bank of America is bearing the pain of struggling under the weight of bad mortgage assets. This is one of the major reasons, of the various factors, to cut 3,500 jobs, after 2,500 reductions year to date.

McGinn announced the Weatherize Every Building program in April of last year. The goals were generating 2,000 living-wage jobs in Seattle and 2,000 existing buildings would be improved with energy efficiency equipment in poorer neighborhoods

AlphaStaff Group, Inc. (“AlphaStaff”), one of the nation’s largest professional employer organizations (PEO), unveiled its fully-upgraded and enhanced website. The announcement was made by John Gibson, CEO.

Law schools are hoping to give their students an edge in the struggle by forcing the big firms to recruit in August, months earlier than in previous years.

The US Labor Department said that the labor market is gradually improving with the decline in the application for unemployment aid.

According to Kronos Inc., there were 37,388 in June in the retail sector while the figures of July are slightly high with 40,070 hires.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 13.9 million Americans unemployed and looking for work, down from about 14.1 million the previous month.

This employment-data and economic-analysis consulting firm's study shows that Texas has the seventh-largest lawyer surplus having only 2,155 lawyer job openings but 3,052 people passing the bar exam annually.

In a nutshell, the statistical information provided by the NALP is that the average salary for law school graduates chopped by 13% from $72,000 to $63,000. The employment rate for the class of 2010 on the whole was 87.6%, down 4% from 2007.

For streamlining itself, 195 HSBC retail banking branches in the United States will be sold to First Niagara Bank for just about US$1 billion. Most of these branches are in upstate New York, while six are in Connecticut.

GM will be adding around 1,200 new jobs and bring back 1,300 laid-off workers. The new workers will be paid about $14 per hour, which is half the rate of the returning workers.

Demand for clinical research professionals is expected to escalate over the next five years, says RNCOS in its latest research study.