MILLER: Morale, productivity affected by benefits frustration
Have employees reached the tipping point where rising health care costs have forced them to think seriously about jumping ship?
Have employees reached the tipping point where rising health care costs have forced them to think seriously about jumping ship?
The May jobless rate in Indiana was unchanged from April, although the state added 7,700 private-sector jobs last month, with gains in sectors including trade, transportation, utilities, and private educational and health services.
Rushville-based Barada Associates Inc. specializes in helping business clients make good hiring decisions—services that have become more popular as companies find themselves inundated with eager applicants looking for work.
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week to the highest level in three months, another sign that the job market remains depressed.
Seventeen employees sign letter to the organization’s board of directors complaining that Indiana Black Expo President and CEO Tanya Bell has created a hostile work environment.
Worker productivity declined at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the April-to-June quarter after posting large gains throughout
2009, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
The bleeding seems to have stopped where job loss is concerned, but it’s not time to pat ourselves on the back.
A couple of Hoosier entrepreneurs think they can take their career information web site national.
Indiana unemployment figure hits double digits in April for the first time since September, showing how volatile the job market
remains.
The number of jobs in Indiana rose by 16,600, marking the largest month-to-month increase since September 2005, the Department
of Workforce Development said.
The Indiana Department of Workforce Development last year identified $3.9 million in unemployment fraud.
The state’s jobless rate has been either 9.8 percent or 9.7 percent the past four months.
New claims for unemployment benefits fell more than anticipated last week—partially due to changes in the calculations—as
layoffs ease and hiring slowly recovers.
New claims for unemployment benefits jumped unexpectedly last week, mostly because state agencies processed a backlog of
claims caused by snowstorms the previous week.
Programs will bolster job opportunities for some 1,700 Indiana workers in sectors including health care and advanced manufacturing.
Employing relatives or pals can be a godsend or a nightmare for small firms. And anecdotal evidence suggests it could be even
rougher on women business owners than it is on men.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of new jobless claims rose to 480,000 last week, up 7,000 from the previous
week.
Indiana government has lost more than 1,500 workers in the past year, and that’s a good thing, Gov. Mitch Daniels says.
California-based WindStream Technologies Inc. plans to locate a development and production facility at Purdue Research Park
of Southeast Indiana, creating more than 260 jobs by 2012.
California-based life science firm Beckman Coulter Inc. is moving its precision plastics injection molding operation
to the Park 100 business park on Indianapolis’ northwest side, making what it calls a multimillion-dollar investment in the
operation.