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Walmart Inc. of Bentonville is hiring about 150,000 new U.S. store employees, most of them in full-time, permanent positions, ahead of the holiday sales rush, the company announced Wednesday. 'This [...]

FOR YEARS, CHRISTINE Kwapnoski dreamed of becoming manager of one of Wal-Mart's Sam's Club stores. Kwapnoski, who began working for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville in 1986 when she was [...]

Sears to move or lay off 1,400; HQ deal said near Sears Holdings Corp. said Tuesday that it has told about 1,400 Kmart employees that their jobs will be either [...]

Detroit's pension board adopts new travel policy The city of Detroit's pension board adopted a travel policy that continues to allow members to take an unlimited number of trips, The [...]

Handleman to stop Internet services The Troy-based Handleman Co. said Internet services no longer would be developed or supported by the music-distribution company. Launched in November 2001, Handleman's online division [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (Bentonville, Arkansas) is looking to resolve a class-action lawsuit brought against the company by one of its female employees, who is seeking to have the retailer's health plan cover prescription contraceptives. The lawsuit was filed in Atlanta, Georgia and was granted class-action status in August 2002. Wal-Mart employs around 1.4 million people across the US, of which the majority are women. If the lawsuit agianst the firm is successful, Wal-Mart would be responsible for reimbursing the cost of prescription contraceptives, and other costs, going back to September 5, 1999.

The people who pass through the doors of the Pikes Peak Workforce Center are your neighbors, and they are hurting. They hope for employment, and many do not much care [...]

E&Y-Andersen deal should be done at month's end A deal that doubles Ernst & Young L.L.P.'s Detroit and Ann Arbor offices and increases its presence in Toledo and Grand Rapids [...]

Citing a slowing economy and efforts to cut costs, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. last week notified about 100 employees at its corporate offices in Bentonville that their jobs no longer exist. [...]

WALMART.COM CEO Jeanne P. Jackson says the company plans to lay off nearly 10 percent of the Brisbane, Calif., firm's 240-employee work force. The layoffs are the first signs that [...]

With the high cost of absenteeism, it pays to create a workplace where people want to be. The morning after Christmas, a Pacific Yurts sales rep called his office asking [...]

Claiming that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot or will not handle its own workers' compensation claims properly, the Department of Labor and Industries in Washington state has revoked, the Bentonville retailer's [...]

Kmart Corp.'s restructuring effort has claimed 46 jobs at the company's Troy headquarters and could result in more cuts, the company said Thursday. The positions were eliminated in early November [...]

Local retail stores find seasonal help hard to come by Retail stores are finding it difficult to meet staffing demands for the holiday season. 'It has been a challenge,' said [...]

Target internship program hits the mark developing future managers Target store interns Jennifer Gray and Lauren Kramer know the clothing their store sells is trendy, quality merchandise that is a [...]

As society changes, companies are being forced to design training programs that are both cost- and time-effective and also keep employees up to date with technology. To help, the Small [...]

Look for 83 pink slips from Kmart when the retailer shuts down its store at the corner of state roads 436 and 434. That's how many employees will lose their [...]

Not too long ago, Haines City was known for its citrus trees and retirees. But times have changed and so has the business climate in this once sleepy town in [...]

Wal-Mart says it is asking some stores to schedule workers for fewer hours, although it says the directive is only being given to stores that are assigning more hours than [...]

Robert Greenwald, the producer and director of 'Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism,' told The New York Times last week about his newest project, a film that takes aim at [...]

IT'S A HIGHLIGHT OF THE Wal-Mart legend: Ten years after founding his revolutionary discount chain and two years after the relatively slow-starting company became a publicly traded entity, Bentonville merchant [...]

WHILE JOB CUTS HAVE ESCALATED the past few months, ending the unemployment rate higher, the news seemed to really hit home last week when Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and FedEx Freight [...]

I GUESS IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN sometime. Last week, for the first time I could remember, the greeter at Wal-Mart failed to greet me. No, this snub was not [...]

Ground breaking was July 11 in Marion for a 1.1-million-square-foot Dollar General Corp. distribution center that is expected to employ 500. The $70 million project will be on a 188-acre [...]

INDIANOLA -- Company officials at Dollar General have confirmed that a third shift has been added at the distribution center located in this Delta city. The new shift adds 130 [...]

THE MARYLAND GENERAL Assembly passed legislation last month that, although aimed directly at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., should be a red flag for every business in the country. The Fair Share [...]

The recent failure to land a big-time retailer in the northeast part of the city was discouraging--but because the prospect was Wal-Mart Stores Inc., it's hard to feel too bad [...]