Job alert - - Best Buy cuts 300 jobs at HQ

Best Buy cuts 300 jobs at HQ
Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal - The layoffs, which were announced to employees Monday, represent about 7 percent of the company's headquarters workforce. The news follows the announcement Thursday that Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) would look to cut about $300 million in general corporate

Jobs "Americans don t want"
Baltimore Chronicle - If we make it a felony to hire illegals, those who want their apples picked, their children nannied, and all the rest of it, will have to raise wages. But history tells us they won t go out of business and prices won t go sky high. W hen it was

Immigration splits public, Washington
Whittier Daily News - WASHINGTON - The gulf between those who want to deport illegal immigrants and those who want to grant them green cards widened Thursday as the Senate continued fierce debate on a guest-worker program, and hard-line House members vowed to reject

Gehl to cut 140 jobs in West Bend as it shutters product line
Stockhouse Canada - Gehl Co. said Monday that it plans to discontinue manufacturing and distribution of its agricultural implement lines, resulting in the permanent layoff of 140 workers following the winding down of production at the West Bend plant. The company's

NedCar to slash jobs in reorganization
The State - AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Mitsubishi Motor Corp.'s Dutch car-making unit NedCar is expected to slash "a few hundred jobs" in a reorganization aimed at cutting production costs, a spokeswoman said on Monday. A company statement said Mitsubishi ordered

House votes to include feds in student loan repayment program
GovExec.com - The House passed a bill Thursday that includes language making certain federal employees eligible to receive up to $5,000 each in student loan repayments from a fund set aside for that purpose. Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., introduced the measure as an

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Apple's Intel Move Still Riling Mac Developers
PC Magazine - On the eve of its 30th anniversary, Apple Computer is in the middle of a major transition moving its Mac hardware and operating system over to the Intel chip. But Apple isn't alone: this transition affects every developer of Mac software, including

JOBS CRISIS SPARKS POWER-SHIFT IN FRENCH GOVERNMENT
Tocqueville Connection - P ARIS, April 3, 2006 (AFP) - The crisis over France's botched youth jobs reform has prompted an important power-shift in the French government, with a discredited Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin eclipsed by his powerful rival Nicolas Sarkozy

'China Syndrome' Airs Saturday On Local 4
ClickOnDetroit.com - With one of the oldest cultures on the planet, China has beckoned travelers for ages with visits to the stunning achievement of the Great Wall, the ornate temples in the countryside, or the shopper's paradise of Hong Kong. But these days, many