Manpower Incorporated

This is one in an occasional series of stories about findings and recommendations in the Hagerstown and Washington County Economic Development Strategic Plan. Sunday’s story looks at information contained in the study about workforce development....

Washington County’s slow recovery from the recession is making employers cautious about whether to hire more workers, according to local job training and employment specialists. As a result, many of the businesses that are seeing some spurts in...

A longtime employee of a Hagerstown land surveying firm, Richard Rice was thinking of a career change back in 2001 when he happened on the website for Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics. The training and job possibilities sounded exciting, but Rice...

South Dakota employers said they plan to hire workers at a solid pace throughout the summer. The report by Manpower Inc. shows that 21 percent of businesses surveyed plan to add employees from July through September, while only 3 percent said they expect...

Lorilee Fernandez had no idea her 26 weeks of unemployment were in danger of expiring when she called the state to ask a routine question. "They said, 'Keep your ears and eyes open,' " she said, recalling tense days of worrying whether Congress would...

MILWAUKEE — Se está expandiendo geográficamente la confianza entre los empleadores estadounidenses, tal como indican los resultados desestacionalizados de la encuesta más reciente de Perspectivas de Contratación de Manpower que realiza...

The number-shaped balloons above the stage told the story — the 2010 United Way of Washington County campaign had risen above expectations. More than 100 business people, volunteers and partner agency representatives gathered Friday in the Valley...

Employees and the owner of a Los Angeles-based labor-recruiting company were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Honolulu for allegedly engaging in a human-trafficking conspiracy involving Thai immigrants who were forced to work on farms, the FBI...

A Westwood company is at the center of a federal indictment alleging a massive human-smuggling ring involving Thai workers. The indictment alleges that the defendants enticed the Thai immigrants to come to the United States with false promises of...

The job picture in Los Angeles for the third quarter of 2010 is one of the weakest in the nation, according to a report released Tuesday by Manpower Inc. About 11% of companies in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metro......

1. Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (Acute-care hospital) 2. St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network (Acute-care hospital) 3. Air Products & Chemicals (Industrial gases, chemicals and manufacturing) 4. U.S. Government (U.S. Government) 5. PPL...