PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Labor and Training is using a $30,000 U.S. Department of Labor grant to install specifically formatted computers in local libraries for free and convenient access to that state’s online unemployment insurance-claims filing system. more

For the past three years, Lifespan, the state’s largest health care-services provider, has stressed one thing to its employees: know your numbers. It has nothing to do with sales, output or operating costs, but refers to an attitude that the company states is part of its DNA: health. more

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island last month launched an effort aimed at allowing workers to acquire career-specific skills in a relatively short time frame for two high-growth fields, thanks in part to a federal grant. more

Our company is still negotiating the annual renewal of our health coverage. According to the insurer’s rate filings, we should probably expect an increase. more

Unemployment rates fell year over year in January in 227 of the United States’ 372 metropolitan areas, including the Providence-Fall River-Warwick metro, according to the latest non-seasonally adjusted data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. more

Outsourcing has become more common since the economic downturn, and Banneker Industries of North Smithfield is there and ready to help busy corporations with warehousing, fulfillment, assembly, distribution, inspections and myriad other supply-chain-management functions. more

Rhode Island and California posted preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rates of 9.8 percent in January, the highest in the nation and significantly higher than the U.S. figure of 7.9 percent. more

The U.S. Department of Labor is officially ending its suspension on new enrollments in the nation’s federal Job Corps program, but Sen. Jack Reed said that he remains “deeply concerned” that sequestration and financial mismanagement at the agency could mean fewer available slots for young people. more

When Joyce Fastino took over as the new owner of The Personnel People more than a decade ago, she brought with her a penny-wise Yankee attitude that might seem out of style to some of today’s entrepreneurs. more

Consideration of employees’ well-being just may be the best investment a company can make. more