Retirement Jobs | Retirement Jobs News for 02/24/2009



Retirement Investors Sit Tight as Flaws in 401(k) Plans Exposed (Bloomberg)
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- It may take more than the worst bear market in 77 years to rattle U.S. retirement-plan investors...

Retirement Investors Sit Tight as Flaws in 401(k) Plans Exposed (Bloomberg)
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- It may take more than the worst bear market in 77 years to rattle U.S. retirement-plan investors...

Oakland Tribune - New assessor-recorder-county clerk named
February 18, 2009 -- The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors has named Ken Blakemore to be the county's assessor-recorder-county clerk. The position has been...

More Job Search Resources for Baby Boomers | Go To Retirement
Retirement Jobs has job listings and search resources and advice for 50+ workers. It also has a premium (pay) membership that is supposed to provide extra advice for job seekers. AARP links to Retirement Jobs content from its site. ...

Topeka Capital-Journal, The - Letters to the editor
February 15, 2009 -- Disturbing vote Working women who voted for Lynn Jenkins should be sorry they did so in light of her vote against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play...

Dow Corning will eliminate 800 jobs (Detroit News)
Dow Corning Corp. Tuesday announced it would cut 800 jobs worldwide -- roughly 8% of its 10,000-member work force -- in response to a tough economy that's eroded demand for its signature silicones and other chemical products...

Former Lawmakers Struggle to Find New Jobs (Fox News)
A handful of incumbents who lost last fall have yet to land new full-time jobs...

Expenditure panel moots higher retirement age (The Hindu)
Thiruvananthapuram: The Second Kerala Expenditure Review Committee has recommended raising the retirement age of State government employees in a phased manner from 55 to 58 and finally to 60. The committee, set up under the Kerala Fiscal Responsibility Act, in its first report tabled in the Assembly on Monday, suggested that the upper age limit for entry into State government service be reduced ...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Shepherding -- a sacred duty
February 17, 2009 -- After some two decades in uniform, U.S. Army Chaplain Keith Shurtleff plans to retire in the next year or so. There's much this lifelong Church...

Charleston is one of the 10 Best Cities for Job-Seeking Retirees .
Some of the best cities to find retirement jobs support several industries that tend to hold up well in turbulent economies. Huntsville, Ala., for example, has a mix of government jobs at the Redstone Arsenal and NASA's Marshall Space ...

Retirement Jobs Open For Those Seeking Work | Retirement
Fortunately, there are many different types of retirement jobs open for those who have voluntarily ended their previous career, and the need for experienced help is always increasing. Regardless of the reason, typically any one who ...

Dow Corning will eliminate 800 jobs (Detroit News)
Dow Corning Corp. Tuesday announced it would cut 800 jobs worldwide -- roughly 8% of its 10,000-member work force -- in response to a tough economy that's eroded demand for its signature silicones and other chemical products...

More seeking police jobs in N. Idaho, Spokane - Seattle Post Intelligencer

More seeking police jobs in N. Idaho, Spokane
Seattle Post Intelligencer
"The timing was right," he said, noting benefits and retirement plans are a plus. He recently passed the physical tests to qualify for the job. A new officer with the Spokane or Coeur d'Alene police starts at about $20.50 an hour with benefits and .
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Retirement Jobs.Com:One Stop Resource For Boomers
Are you over the age of 50 and looking for a job? With the struggling economy, you may have exhaused all your means in finding future employment. Did you ever think to look on-line? If not, maybe you should. ...

Ford to cut more jobs, slash pay (Connecticut Post)
DETROIT (AP) -- Hourly workers at Ford Motor Co. will get yet another round of buyout and early retirement offers, and the company's top two executives will take 30 percent pay cuts as Ford tries to..

Retirement Jobs
Has your retirement fund tanked and you need to go back to work? Or, do you want to retire from your current job, but want to do something completely...

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Evening Chronicle: True cost of scandal; COMMENT
February 14, 2009 -- THE human cost of the Northern Rock crisis continues to mount more than a year after it was nationalised. Hundreds of people have lost their jobs...

YOUR VIEW: Mayor's hires cost city too much - South Coast Today
Police say UMD hacker snagged women's nude Facebook photos Departments detail doomsday cuts Residents plea for new cable company How safe are SouthCoast restaurants? Passing of 'a real champion' For second time since Saturday, New Bedford's Fire ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) Delivers GOP Response to President Obama - Washington Post
Good evening. Im Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana. Tonight, we witnessed a great moment in the history of our Republic. In the very chamber where Congress once voted to abolish slavery, our first African-American President stepped forward to ...

Former Lawmakers Struggle to Find New Jobs (Fox News)
A handful of incumbents who lost last fall have yet to land new full-time jobs...

Unpaid furloughs a trend for US white-collar jobs - Reuters

Unpaid furloughs a trend for US white-collar jobs
Reuters
"Between this and the stock market, it is quite a bump in the pathway toward saving for retirement." At the Gannett newspaper chain, which publishes USA Today as well as dozens of other dailies across the country, journalists are also ambivalent about .
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Retirement Investors Sit Tight as Flaws in 401(k) Plans Exposed - Bloomberg
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- It may take more than the worst bear market in 77 years to rattle U.S. retirement-plan investors. Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab Corp. and other 401(k) account managers say most clients rode out the worst months of the ...

Dow Corning says it will cut 800 jobs worldwide (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Dow Corning Corp. says it will cut 800 jobs, or about 8 percent of its 10,000-member global work force, because of the poor economy...

Teachers offered early retirement - The Banner-Graphic

Teachers offered early retirement
The Banner-Graphic, IN
Green and the board members were sure to stress that they are doing everything they can to avoid any job cuts in the classroom. "We're working our tails off the save jobs," board member Jack Berry said. "I've seen what RIF letters do to teachers, .
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Obama set for balancing act - Al Jazeera
Back when he lived in the White House around the turn of the last century, Theodore Roosevelt, the former US president, liked to refer to the presidency as a "bully pulpit". For Barack Obama, the pulpit does not get much more bully than on Tuesday ...

Daily Record, The (Baltimore) - Maryland Court of Special Appeals: Thomas v. State Retirement &
February 17, 2009 -- Administrative Law Special disability benefits BOTTOM LINE: Circuit court properly affirmed Administrative Law Judge's denial of state...

Early retirement plan for county dropped (Vernon County Broadcaster)
An early retirement incentive plan for Vernon County employees was quashed last week after no profit could be found in it...

PRESS RELEASE: Alstom Signs a New Agreement for Jobs and Skills Planning (Nasdaq)
Alstom (Paris:ALO) has signed a new agreement with three French trade unions ( CFDT, CFE-CGC, and CFTC) concerning planning for jobs, skills and retirement age...

Why People Never Grow Old with Retirement Jobs
In fact, surveys show that almost 58 % of those who are at an early retirement stage and are engaged in retirement jobs had contended that the reason why they still want to work is that they still want to serve their community. ...

The sky is falling. - Huffingtonpost.com
For the average Working Joe or Jane in America, it is anyway. Unemployment is at 7.6 percent and rising. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that there are 4.1 job seekers now for every opening. The mortgage delinquency rate set another record ...

PRESS RELEASE: Alstom Signs a New Agreement for Jobs and Skills Planning (Nasdaq)
Alstom (Paris:ALO) has signed a new agreement with three French trade unions ( CFDT, CFE-CGC, and CFTC) concerning planning for jobs, skills and retirement age...

Dow Corning says it will cut 800 jobs worldwide (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Dow Corning Corp. says it will cut 800 jobs, or about 8 percent of its 10,000-member global work force, because of the poor economy...

Teachers offered early retirement (Greencastle Banner-Graphic)
As the Greencastle Community School Corporation continues to look at budget cuts for the 2009-10 school year, it has struck a deal with its teachers on an early retirement incentive that could bring...

Newspaper Guild: Journal to cut 100 jobs - Providence Business News

Providence Business News

Newspaper Guild: Journal to cut 100 jobs
Providence Business News, RI
. and limit job losses. At the start of the year, the company eliminated its 2 percent base contribution to employee 401(k) retirement accounts, and EURthe new change means the company will no longer pay any retirement contributions,EUR the union added. .
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Early retirement plan for county dropped (Vernon County Broadcaster)
An early retirement incentive plan for Vernon County employees was quashed last week after no profit could be found in it...

Smokeless workplaces, helping job seekers - The Associated Press

Smokeless workplaces, helping job seekers
The Associated Press
A survey earlier this month asked US adults what issues most concerned them, and 38 percent said the state of their job, while 23 percent cited stock market performance, 20 percent said the cost of health care and 12 percent said saving for retirement. .
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Dow Corning cuts 800 jobs - ConnectMidMichigan.com

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Dow Corning cuts 800 jobs
ConnectMidMichigan.com, Michigan
Involving approximately eight percent of the companys workforce, the actions will primarily occur during the first half of the year across all geographic regions, and will be accomplished through a combination of voluntary retirement programs and .
Dow Corning says it will cut 800 jobs worldwide International Herald Tribune
Breaking: Dow Corning to eliminate 800 jobs MLive.com
Dow Corning to cut 8 percent of workforce ABC12.com
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Investors Sit Tight as Flaws in 401(k) Plans Exposed - Bloomberg

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Investors Sit Tight as Flaws in 401(k) Plans Exposed
Bloomberg
. they switch jobs. In those cases, he said, they frequently make poor decisions, adding to stock holdings in rising stock markets and bailing out of stocks during market slumps. The structure of retirement plans in part explains their stability. .
A bright light in a dismal landscape Boston Globe
House Committee Advised not To Scare Participants Planadviser.com
Take Time to Understand the Potential of a 401(k) Bill of Rights Utah Business
CharlotteObserver.com - OUPblog
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Expenditure panel moots higher retirement age (The Hindu)
Thiruvananthapuram: The Second Kerala Expenditure Review Committee has recommended raising the retirement age of State government employees in a phased manner from 55 to 58 and finally to 60. The committee, set up under the Kerala Fiscal Responsibility Act, in its first report tabled in the Assembly on Monday, suggested that the upper age limit for entry into State government service be reduced ...

Unpaid furloughs a trend for US white-collar jobs - Forbes
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - U.S. newspapers have done it. California police have too. Governments in California, New Jersey and Ohio say it will save the budget. Forcing workers to take unpaid time off is a new version of the American layoff. The ...

Dow Corning says it will cut 800 jobs worldwide - International Herald Tribune
WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Michigan : Dow Corning Corp. says it will cut 800 jobs, or about 8 percent of its 10,000-member global work force, because of the poor economy. The company, a joint venture between Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. and Corning, New ...

Cummins to cut 985 jobs by week's end - Chicago Tribune

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Cummins to cut 985 jobs by week's end
Chicago Tribune, United States
Earlier this month, Cummins offered early retirement packages to up to 350 workers, but after only 120 accepted early retirement, the company decided to cut another 115 jobs. Cummins has cut about 1820 jobs worldwide in the past three months due to the .
1220 leaving Cummins The Republic.com (subscription)
Cummins Announces Job Reduction Numbers Inside INdiana Business (press release)
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Signs of the Times: Beach holidays down-lean times for sharks - Forbes
(Reuters) - The global recession manifests itself in big and small ways, most gloomy, some quirky and often reflecting the inventive human spirit. Here is a look at some signs of the times. * Even sharks feel the bite. Shark attacks on humans dropped ...

Retirement Jobs - Tips for Seniors Seeking Employment
At least one in four older Americans are either postponing their retirement or seeking to return to the workforce, while 4 in 10 employers have designed programs to encourage late-career workers to stay past their traditional retirement ...

Teachers offered early retirement (Greencastle Banner-Graphic)
As the Greencastle Community School Corporation continues to look at budget cuts for the 2009-10 school year, it has struck a deal with its teachers on an early retirement incentive that could bring...

Retirement Jobs: Good News for Older Workers!
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Recession-Related Money Worries are Worse Than Reality - U.S. News & World Report

Recession-Related Money Worries are Worse Than Reality
U.S. News & World Report, DC
EURBut tens of millions who still have their jobs and have suffered little or no loss of retirement savings worry that a deepening recession will eventually cost them income or even their jobs.EUR A new survey indicates that the majority of Americans are .
Fewer Americans saving for retirement, survey says InvestmentNews
Survey Reveals Adverse Impacts Of, And Even Greater Concern About . All American Patriots (press release)
Avoid financial flameout: Nationwide effort urges consumers to . New Haven Register (subscription)
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Independent, The (London) - Should we have stopped Roosevelt after two terms?
February 14, 2009 -- Comment Only the media make the argument that there should be time limits on holding power, and that's because someone losing and a changing of...

Sunday Mirror - Your motoring: Bob ditches his job with GM
February 15, 2009 -- Hot on the heels of BMW design guru Chris Bangles decision to call it a day, yet another high profile name from the world of motoring has decided...

Expert tips for finding retirement jobs | RetirementRevised
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and so it goes with retirement in 2009. The brutal stock market decline and frozen real estate market have wrecked the retirement plans of many Americans, who now find themselves back ...

Wishing the private sector had this benefi - Herald Tribune
Something's wrong here. It's not just that Florida's retirement program allows government workers to double-dip for the last five years of their employment. It's who's doing it and how. When someone like Manatee County Clerk of Courts Richard "Chips ...

Oakland Tribune - Ask Amy: Humor might deflect Neanderthal
February 17, 2009 -- DEAR AMY: My husband has been retired for a number of years, and I hold a full-time job. We share household chores and are comfortable with our...

Market Wire - Caterpillar Moving Forward With $240 Million in New Plant Construction in the South, an Industrial Info News Alert
February 16, 2009 -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources(Sugar Land, Texas) -- In these tough economic times, CaterpillarIncorporated (NYSE:CAT) (Peoria,...

Dow Corning says it will cut 800 jobs worldwide (WCAX-TV Vermont)
Associated Press - February 24, 2009 9:55 PM ET WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Dow Corning Corp. says it will cut 800 jobs, or about 8% of its 10,000-member global work force, because of the...

Senior Jobs Are Best When Grown At Home | Retirement Income Report
Do you know why senior jobs are now becoming a synonym for retirement jobs? Heres a few scary reasons whyEUR 1.The rock solid, dependable retirement pension from many companies worked at for decades is now shrinking down to a dot at the ...

Dow Corning says it will cut 800 jobs worldwide (WCAX-TV Vermont)
Associated Press - February 24, 2009 9:55 PM ET WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Dow Corning Corp. says it will cut 800 jobs, or about 8% of its 10,000-member global work force, because of the...

Ford to cut more jobs, slash pay (Connecticut Post)
DETROIT (AP) -- Hourly workers at Ford Motor Co. will get yet another round of buyout and early retirement offers, and the company's top two executives will take 30 percent pay cuts as Ford tries to..

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - To fuel economy, remove barriers to education
February 16, 2009 -- Though public officials tell us we're not as bad off as other states, it is little comfort if you are one of those 31,016 Utahns projected to lose...

Retailers report dismal 4th qtr, gird for future - Herald-Standard
NEW YORK - Retailers marched out a series of cheerless results Tuesday for their most important season of the year, the fourth quarter, when consumers seem to have put off buying almost anything they had a choice about. From Macy's to Target and ...

Manchester Library Hosts Seminar On post-Retirement Jobs - The Manchester Times

Manchester Library Hosts Seminar On post-Retirement Jobs
The Manchester Times, NJ
Emphasis will be placed on using a post retirement job or business opportunity to follow one's dreams and self-employment opportunities will be included. This program is open to the adult public free of charge. Please call 732-657-7600 or go online to .
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