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 […]
Posted on March 3, 2010
Good news for job seekers: according to the Examiner.com, the United States Census Bureau has created many available jobs in Rhode Island (click here). The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring several recruiting assistants in Rhode Island. According to the Census Bureau, it is preferable that the applicant be bilingual in English and at least one […]
Posted on February 17, 2010
Starpoint Solutions, a staffing firm, is looking to hire 20 to 60 people for IT jobs in Rhode Island. Starpoint Solutions is based in New York and is looking to hire up to 70 people in Rhode Island, with 20 to 60 being in the IT arena. Five to 10 sales people and recruiters will […]
Posted on February 10, 2010
The first state-coordinated plan to develop a green economy recommends creating an energy strategy for RI, thereby sparking the creation of a plethora of green jobs in Rhode Island. According to ProJo.com, this will expand sources of funding for clean technology companies and setting up worker-training programs, in the hope that the new initiatives can contribute to an economic […]
