Posted on June 2, 2010
CitiGroup has announced nationwide terminations, including a bevy of finance jobs in Rhode Island. For more information, click here. According to Reuters, Citigroup said on Tuesday that it would shut about 18 percent of CitiFinancial’s 1,833 U.S. branches and stop making loans at another 182 branches. The decision to close or stop making loans at […]
Posted on May 27, 2010
According to the Associated Press, Electric Boat has announced it will create almost 500 jobs, many of which will be electrician jobs in Rhode Island. Officials with submarine maker Electric Boat say the company will add 450 jobs at its Rhode Island facility over the next five years, and spend more than $55 million on […]
Posted on May 16, 2010
A $10 million federally job program that was intended to boost the Providence economy has not created any Rhode Island jobs to date (click here). The program was unveiled three months ago by Providence Mayor David Cicilline. Jobs Now is reportedly still under review by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children […]
Posted on May 12, 2010
The 93 teachers, staff, and administrators fired from Central Falls School District are reapplying for their lost teaching jobs in Rhode Island, according to Examiner.com. In February 2010, the Central Falls Superintendent of Schools, Frances Gallo, came forward with a solution when the teacher’s union rejected her conditions on reforming the city’s failing high school: fire all […]
Posted on May 2, 2010
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is projected to save thousands of jobs in Rhode Island (click here). The Act has been responsible for creating or saving 11,000 jobs in Rhode Island since its signing in February 2009, the Obama administration said Friday. According to PBN.com, that would be 2.4 percent of the 452,500 non-farm […]
Posted on April 19, 2010
Clariant Corp., a pigment plant, has announced that they are relocating sales and technical jobs in Rhode Island to its North American headquarters in Charlotte by the end of the third quarter. According to PlasticsNews.com, Coventry was a pigments plant until it was shut at the end of 2008. Remaining staff there supported Clairants pigments and […]
Posted on April 13, 2010
Kent Hospital has laid off all 46 licensed practical nurses and announced that it would outsource its rehabilitation services, as the Warwick hospital grappled with declining patient volume, a move that will decrease available Rhode Island healthcare jobs (click here). According to ProJo.com, both changes had been in the works for some time, however. Kent plans […]
Posted on April 7, 2010
The state of Rhode Island has embarked on massive study to develop off-shore wind farms, a move that will spur on the creation of many green jobs in Rhode Island. New York Times reports that Rhode Island has forged ahead with its own plans to convert some of the states power source to wind. They aim to outpace […]
Posted on March 25, 2010
Brown University is cutting 60 Rhode Island teaching jobs by June to help close a $30 million projected budget gap for the next fiscal year after endowment losses. But the jobs are non-faculty related. Browns roughly 3,000 non-faculty staff members were informed of the job cuts in an e-mail sent Monday. The individuals who will lose […]
Posted on March 8, 2010
Rhode Islands unemployment rate remained unchanged in January, holding steady at Decembers revised 12.7 percent, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training said Friday in its monthly jobs report.The state gained 800 jobs while the number of employed residents jumped by 2,000 in January, but those gains were offset by a larger number of unemployed […]
