GM to Add 483 Jobs at Former Saturn Engine Plant General Motors plans to spend $483 million to upgrade a former Saturn engine plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., to build more four-cylinder Ecotec engines, the Detroit-based automaker…
Increased hiring of temps and in industries such as retail and tourism has barely offset the far larger job cuts in print media and telecom, according to the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
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A suit filed by three women accusing Goldman Sachs of sex discrimination underscores a surprising trend: Despite growing equality in the business world, financial services has become an increasingly male-dominated industry.
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The sector specializing in short-term and freelance jobs has taken on a split personality of sorts. Demand for contractors is ticking upward, but pay rates are going the other way.
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Initial jobless claims fell to a two-month low of 450,000, confounding analyst expectations.
Jobless claims dipped 3,000 in the week ending Sept. 11, the Department of Labor said. The revised figure for the previous week was 453,000.
Analysts polled by Reuters forecast claims rising to 460,000.
“The labor market is slowly getting back on track,” Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at…
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Jobless Claims Fall to Two-Month Low originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:37:00.