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Landscape architecture firm Gates, Leighton & Associates is merging with Engineering firm Beta Group Inc. after roughly 20 years of collaboration.
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By PBN Staff
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Employers in the U.S. hired fewer workers than forecast in June, showing the labor market is making scant progress toward reducing joblessness.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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Companies in the U.S. added more workers than forecast in June, which may ease concern the labor market is deteriorating, a private payrolls report showed.
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By Lorraine Woellert |
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CVS Caremark won platinum recognition in the National Business Group’s 2012 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles awards.
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By Dana Reilly |
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The city of Warwick has reached new, three-year contracts with the city’s fire and police unions, Mayor Scott Avedisian announced Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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Providence is at the top of the latest Hispanic Metropolitan Unemployment list for the second year in a row.
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By Dana Reilly |
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The R.I. Department of Labor and Training has announced the 2012 maximum weekly benefit rate for unemployment insurance and temporary disability insurance claimants who will start their benefit year on or after July 1.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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Personal income in Rhode Island rose 0.8 percent from $46.3 billion during the fourth 2011 to $46.7 billion during the first quarter 2012, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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By PBN Staff
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About 74 percent of Americans say they plan to work past age 65, according to a May study by economists Jay Bryson and Sarah Watt of Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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By Shobhana Chandra |
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Year over year in May, construction employment declined in 164 out of 337 metro areas, including the Providence-Fall River-Warwick metro, according to data released Tuesday by the Associated General Contractors of America.
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By PBN Staff
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