The National Nurses United union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board charging Johns Hopkins Hospital officials with retaliating against two nurses involved in an organizing effort there. The nurses allege Hopkins was hostile toward them for their work to form the union....
Students pursuing an associate degree in nursing from Wor-Wic Community College in Salisbury can now enroll simultaneously in the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s bachelor of science degree program under a dual admission agreement, the schools announced Wednesday. The Eastern Shore community...
The top Baltimore-area employers for small companies in 2018. >> Top large employers >> Top midsize employers
The top Baltimore-area employers for midsize companies in 2018. >> Top large employers >> Top small employers
The top Baltimore-area employers for large companies in 2018. >> Top small employers >> Top midsize employers
If you've recently graduated college then congratulations are in order-you've reached a significant life milestone and should be proud of your accomplishment! That said, just because you've achieved this goal doesn't mean your work is done. For many people, graduating from college is the starting...
Sometimes we get so focused on our current jobs that we forget to focus on "the big professional picture," which includes our entire career arc-from start to finish. The truth is, we should always think about our professional lives as a journey rather than a single destination and have a plan for...
Dealing with sometimes demanding, sometimes ornery, sometimes outright hostile customers may be the biggest challenge any retail employee must face. Retail places all employees in a veritable public relations position because the way employees handle customers reflects on the business as a whole....
We all know that promotions are wonderful and momentous occasions on our individual career journeys-but are they always the right move for us? The answer might not be as clear cut as you think. Sure, promotions typically come with new challenges and opportunities (and usually more prestige and...
The term "team player" is so often used as an essential professional attribute that it's become a well-worn cliché-but that doesn't make it any less of a valuable skill to have if you want to be successful at work, regardless of your occupation or industry. Being able to work well with others and...
A lot has changed in the auto sales business since Lou Cohen opened a small used car lot on Liberty Heights Avenue in Baltimore in 1961. Cohen, now president and CEO of BMW of Towson, was fresh out of the Army when he took his his first job with another dealer before branching out to sell, and...
People have been selling goods and services on credit since ancient times, and it’s long been common outside the United States for businesses to take out insurance to protect themselves when customers fail to pay. But recently U.S. businesses have shown renewed interest in buying such policies,...
Neal Fiorelli spent the first part of his professional life in insurance and banking as something of an odd-shaped cog in a strict corporate wheel. So when his job moved from Baltimore to Buffalo, he decided not to follow. But he didn’t stop pondering his experiences. One main theme stuck in his...
Ed Saul wakes up each morning, puts on a pot of coffee and lets out his dog. From his Carroll County home, he then logs onto a system that tracks every stage of production, down to the minute, at the Domino Sugar refinery nearly 30 miles away in Baltimore. The 72-year-old distribution manager is...
As a seventh-grader, Mick Arnold tagged along one summer as his father visited customers of his packaging business. One asked the boy what he wanted to do when he grew up. “I said I’d like to do what my dad does. I’d like to be involved in packaging,” Arnold, now 47 and president of the fourth-generation...
Verizon will hold a job information event Jan. 24 at its Hanover call center as it looks to hire 60 for its customer service team there. The telecommunications giant will conduct three 90-minute sessions starting at 9 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. for interested candidates to learn about career opportunities...
The office supply giant Staples plans to close its fulfillment center in Hanover, eliminating many of the 61 local positions, as it consolidates its regional warehouses, according to information from company and state officials. The company reported this week to the state Department of Labor, Licensing...
The Baltimore County law firms Morgan Carlo Downs and Ward & Herzog merged Jan. 1 to create Downs Ward Bender Hauptmann & Herzog. The merged firm, based in Hunt Valley, is expected to enable faster growth for women-owned partnership, which practices throughout Maryland as well as in Washington...
About six months after a new CEO took the helm of the state’s largest health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the nonprofit confirmed that it has launched a reorganization. The company would not make Brian D. Pieninck, its president and CEO as of July, or any other executive available for...
Maryland’s unemployment rate dropped to 4 percent in November, from 4.1 percent the month before, reflecting a solid labor market that economists say could help the state withstand the budget uncertainty in Washington. Unemployment is also lower than a year ago, but still not as low as the national...
Six bus drivers are suing the Maryland Transit Administration in federal court, claiming they have been denied overtime pay since October 2015. The drivers say their class-action suit, initially filed in in Baltimore City Circuit Court late last month, could apply to as many as 200 current drivers....
Transdev Services, which operated the Charm City Circulator until October, paid $160,000 this week to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company and its predecessor, Veolia Transportation Services, underpaid five paratransit drivers, who took Medicaid recipients to appointments in Baltimore under...
FedEx Supply Chain is holding a job fair Monday and Tuesday in Towson in hopes of signing on 500 people for full-time seasonal jobs — in York, Pa. Perhaps reflecting low-unemployment and tight competition, the shipping company said it will bus workers to the facility in York, pay $16.40 an hour...
The Baltimore Police Department’s new online job application is helping the agency blow past its monthly recruitment goals, but the number of new hires continues to lag official targets and last year’s performance, a recent report shows. From January through May, 526 people submitted applications...
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to express disappointment in General Motors for “closing plants” in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland while sparing facilities in Mexico and Canada. The Detroit automaker — which U.S. taxpayers saved from collapsing with a $51 billion bailout a decade...
Stanley Black & Decker announced a $250 million cost reduction program in late October that could affect the toolmaker’s workforce in Maryland. The company cited “external headwinds” that included new tariffs and other costs. “As we shift to 2019, we are now preparing for the carryover effect of...
The state’s unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in October, down a tenth of a percent from the previous month’s rate and 0.2 percent from a year before, numbers that are historically low but remain above the national average. The national unemployment rate was 3.7 percent for October, down about...
Journalists at Baltimore Sun Media Group community newspapers, including the Capital Gazette and Carroll County Times, have moved to form a union and asked parent company Tribune Publishing to voluntarily recognize the unit. The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, which represents the Chesapeake...
The National Labor Relations Board has found further evidence Johns Hopkins officials are restricting the rights of nurses trying to unionize. This is the third time the labor board has found merit to such allegations since the National Nurses Organizing Committee filed a complaint in June, after...
Saks Fifth Avenue plans to close its Aberdeen distribution center early next year and lay off about 150 workers. The warehouse at 500 Hickory Drive will shut down in phases between March and August, the company said in a notice filed with the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation....