Retirement Jobs | Retirement Jobs News for 02/26/2009



Sparx Group to Cut 50 Jobs, Executive Pay; Cancels Dividend (Bloomberg)
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Sparx Group Co. , Asias biggest hedge-fund manager, said it will cut about 50 jobs and reduce payments for executives to help improve the companys finances...

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...

Three ways to deal with a smaller nest egg - Marketwatch
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- It's not as if we need another survey to tell us what we already know. Given what's happened to our retirement accounts and home equity, none of us feel as wealthy as we did a year ago -- and that feeling is only backed up by ...

Cummins To Cut 985 Jobs Worldwide - Post-Journal
COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) - Engine-maker Cummins Inc. plans to cut 985 employees worldwide by the end of this week, including 460 in Indiana. The Columbus-based company said last month it would cut "at least 800" by the end of February. The new reduction ...

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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Dow Corning to cut 800 jobs worldwide (Greensboro News & Record)
WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) - 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 York-based Corning Inc., will eliminate the jobs during the first half of 2009 through a combination of voluntary retirement programs and ...

Norwalk, union officials work on retirement offer - Stamford Advocate
NORWALK -- Negotiations between the city and a union representing its blue collar workers resume today after the two sides couldn't hammer out a deal on the city's early retirement package. Tuesday was the deadline for agreeing to the retirement ...

Norwalk, union officials work on retirement offer (Norwalk Advocate)
NORWALK -- Negotiations between the city and a union representing its blue collar workers resume today after the two sides couldn't hammer out a deal on the city's early retirement package...

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...

Is a new Ford on its way to Avon Lake plant? - Chronicle-Telegram
AVON LAKE EUR” The Ohio Assembly Plant and other Ford Motor Co. plants around the country will benefit if the United Auto Workers agrees to a wide range of concessions on their contract. According to documents obtained by The Chronicle-Telegram, Ford ...

Poll: Fears growing about job loss, inability to pay bills and . - Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON (AP) EUR” As the economy continues to struggle, the public is growing increasingly concerned about losing jobs, not having enough money to pay the bills and seeing their retirement accounts shrink, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll ...

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...

Cummins to cut 460 Hoosier jobs - WTHR
Columbus - By the end of this week, 460 Indiana employees will be out of a job. The announcement comes from Engine-maker Cummins Incorporated based in Columbus. The cuts are part of the company's plans to eliminate 985 jobs worldwide by the end of ...

Hemet school board spares 106 jobs (The Press-Enterprise)
The Hemet school board was poised to authorize cutting 207 teaching and other certificated jobs as budget-trimming measures but instead voted Tuesday to spare 106 positions by taking advantage of some flexibility created by the newly adopted state budget. "It's huge and we couldn't be happier," said Superintendent Phil Pendley...

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...

Jobs still deeply involved, Apple tells shareholders (National Post)
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs remains deeply involved in company decisions despite ceding control over operations, executives told shareholders, while waving off questions about reports of a regulatory probe into disclosure...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

School Offers Retirement Incentive, Cuts Possible (East Aurora Advertiser)
The East Aurora School District is offering some of its more senior teachers a one-time retirement incentive this month, with the School Board and administration hoping to cut back expenditures and lay off fewer new teachers as it prepares for the 2009-2010 school year. Superintendent James Bodziak presented plans for the retirement incentive to the board at its Feb. 11 meeting...

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 ...

Busing Cuts in Leetonia - 27 First News
Hundreds of students in Leetonia will have to walk to school beginning on Monday, and parents are not too happy about it. The Leetonia School Board says it's a matter of finances. They simply do not have the money to keep busing students to school ...

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,...

Jindal's Simpletonian Speech - Paul Levinson - Open Salon
Orwellian, the repugs have always depended upon the US electorate not remembering last week much less the past 8 years. Now, it is a personal reality that faces them with lost retirement, jobs, and homes and is harder to deny. ...

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 ...

SOUND OFF: Published February 26 - Tonawanda News
The Sunday paper had a very interesting article about the proposed progressive income tax in New York state, the millionaires tax. Nobody likes more taxes, but the states wealthiest can certainly afford it more than me, a retired NT homeowner ...

Retirement Life Matters: Retirement Work
. create your own retirement income security. Posted by CathyS at 9:58 AM. Labels: boomers retirement, jobs in retirement, retired jobs, retirement inc., retirement income security, retirement teacher, the boomers, the new retirement ...

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...

Dow Corning to cut 800 jobs worldwide - Bizjournals.com

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Dow Corning to cut 800 jobs worldwide
Bizjournals.com, NC
Jarrod Erpelding, a spokesman for Dow Corning, said the company does not yet have details on where the job cuts will take place. The company plans to make the cuts through voluntary retirement programs and layoffs. EURœThis is a difficult but necessary .
Dow Corning to cut 800 jobs Madison Courier
Unknown how many of Dow Corning's 800 cut jobs will come from Bay . The Saginaw News - MLive.com
Dow cutting 800 jobs, but HSC plant safe Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
DetNews.com - International Herald Tribune
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Senate Committee Takes Aim at Target-Dates - Planadviser.com

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Senate Committee Takes Aim at Target-Dates
Planadviser.com, CT
In conjunction with this hearing, CEPR released a new report on how the housing crash is affecting boomers retirement prospects. Ignacio Salazar, from SER- Jobs for Progress, testified about some of the challenges that older workers face in todays .
Legislation would make it easier for agencies to rehire federal . GovExec.com
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Cummins to cut 985 jobs by end of week (The Indianapolis Star)
Engine-maker Cummins said Tuesday it plans to cut 985 employees worldwide by the end of this week. It had said last month it would cut "at least 800." The reduction includes 225 salaried and 235 hourly workers in Indiana. 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...

Middle class task force meets Fri in Philadelphia - The Associated Press

Middle class task force meets Fri in Philadelphia
The Associated Press
. standards for middle-class families, who didn't fare well before the current economic downturn set in and who are now feeling pinched along with millions of other consumers as they lose jobs and watch retirement and college savings disappear. .
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Finding Green Jobs For Working Families (CBS News)
Green jobs, where are they and how to get them, will be the focus when President Barack Obama's task force on middle-class working families formally begins its work...

Guilford county eliminates 32 jobs (News 14 Carolina)
GREENSBORO €EURœ Guilford County officials said 32 county jobs will be eliminated by March 10, but 22 of those positions were vacant, which means 10 county employees will be laid off...

Hemet school board spares 106 jobs - Press-Enterprise

Hemet school board spares 106 jobs
Press-Enterprise, CA
The remainder of jobs slated for elimination would disappear through attrition and retirement, Perez said. The Hemet Unified School District trustees saved 104 out of 129 elementary teaching jobs by using $6.5 million in state money earmarked for a .
San Jacinto, Hemet school districts weigh budget cuts Trading Markets (press release)
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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 ...

Court: City brought on heart attack DPW secretary said elimination . - The Salem News

Court: City brought on heart attack DPW secretary said elimination .
The Salem News, MA
The heart attack left her physically unable to do her job, she claimed. The question over the nine years the case has been before judges and retirement officials has been the same EUR” can the heart attack be considered a job-related injury? .
Court backs pension for city worker stricken after layoff Boston Herald
Court Rules Layoff Brought On Heart Attack Boston Channel.com
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Guilford county eliminates 32 jobs - News14.com

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Guilford county eliminates 32 jobs
News14.com, NC
"The 10 people that are affected by the layoff, we're looking at trying to relocate them in county government, hoping additional jobs within our structure and some of them will be eligible also for early retirement," Guilford County Commission Chair .
Guilford County Cuts 32 Jobs To Save $2 Million WFMY News 2
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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...

Cummins to cut 985 jobs by end of week (The Indianapolis Star)
Engine-maker Cummins said Tuesday it plans to cut 985 employees worldwide by the end of this week. It had said last month it would cut "at least 800." The reduction includes 225 salaried and 235 hourly workers in Indiana. 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...

Jobs still deeply involved, Apple tells shareholders (National Post)
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs remains deeply involved in company decisions despite ceding control over operations, executives told shareholders, while waving off questions about reports of a regulatory probe into disclosure...

Norwalk, union officials work on retirement offer (Norwalk Advocate)
NORWALK -- Negotiations between the city and a union representing its blue collar workers resume today after the two sides couldn't hammer out a deal on the city's early retirement package...

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 to cut 800 jobs worldwide (Greensboro News & Record)
WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) - 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 York-based Corning Inc., will eliminate the jobs during the first half of 2009 through a combination of voluntary retirement programs and ...

Getting a Job After Retirement
Part time retirement jobs are by far the most popular form of work for retirees. Part time can mean anything from one day to five days per week, often with reduced hours. Some retirees chose to work for just two or three hours several ...

Change city retirement match - Lincoln Journal Star
City Councilman Ken Svoboda is working on a proposal to reduce the 2-to-1 match the city provides for civilian city employee retirement contributions. The proposal is an idea whose time has come. There are few employers in the private sector that ...

Sparx Group to Cut 50 Jobs, Executive Pay; Cancels Dividend (Bloomberg)
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Sparx Group Co. , Asias biggest hedge-fund manager, said it will cut about 50 jobs and reduce payments for executives to help improve the companys finances...

Norwalk, union officials work on retirement offer - Norwalk Advocate

Norwalk, union officials work on retirement offer
Norwalk Advocate, ct
Once approved by the union, the workers eligible for early retirement will have until March 13 to accept the offer. Moccia said the city is trying to soften the blow of the job losses by offering the early retirement package. He said some city workers' .
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Finding Post- Retirement Jobs and Business Opportunities
Manchester Branch Tuesday, Mar. 3, 2:00 pm Registration required. Call 732-657-7600 or register online.. Learn how to supplement your fixed income after you retire. In todays economy, many seniors need to remain active in the workforce ...

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...

Guilford county eliminates 32 jobs (News 14 Carolina)
GREENSBORO €EURœ Guilford County officials said 32 county jobs will be eliminated by March 10, but 22 of those positions were vacant, which means 10 county employees will be laid off...

Green jobs will be the subject when middle-class task force meets . - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Car exec: Obama task force meets with Chrysler Obama tells nation: 'We are not quitters' Michelle Obama: First dog arriving in April Obama: 'We will rebuild, we will recover' Obama promises to strengthen US-Japan relations WASHINGTON - Green jobs ...

Cummins to cut 460 Hoosier jobs - WTHR

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Cummins to cut 460 Hoosier jobs
WTHR, IN
Earlier this month, Cummins offered early retirement packages to up to 350 workers. After only 120 accepted early retirement, the company decided to cut another 115 jobs. Cummins has cut more than 1800 jobs worldwide in the past three months due to the .
More Cuts at Cummins NewsTalk 1010 WCSI
Cummins Announces Job Reduction Numbers Inside INdiana Business (press release)
1220 leaving Cummins The Republic.com (subscription)
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Hemet school board spares 106 jobs (The Press-Enterprise)
The Hemet school board was poised to authorize cutting 207 teaching and other certificated jobs as budget-trimming measures but instead voted Tuesday to spare 106 positions by taking advantage of some flexibility created by the newly adopted state budget. "It's huge and we couldn't be happier," said Superintendent Phil Pendley...

Finding Green Jobs For Working Families (CBS News)
Green jobs, where are they and how to get them, will be the focus when President Barack Obama's task force on middle-class working families formally begins its work...

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...

A funny sort of depression - San Francisco Chronicle

A funny sort of depression
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
For the vast majority of Americans with jobs, the fall in prices for almost everything from food to cars has, in real dollars, meant an actual increase in purchasing power. The loss in value of home equity is serious for those who need to relocate for .
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School Offers Retirement Incentive, Cuts Possible (East Aurora Advertiser)
The East Aurora School District is offering some of its more senior teachers a one-time retirement incentive this month, with the School Board and administration hoping to cut back expenditures and lay off fewer new teachers as it prepares for the 2009-2010 school year. Superintendent James Bodziak presented plans for the retirement incentive to the board at its Feb. 11 meeting...

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...

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...



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