Federal lawmakers from Maryland and West Virginia have demanded a meeting with the owner of the Luke Mill, a Western Maryland paper factory shutting down this month. A Verso Corp. spokeswoman said CEO Les Lederer “expects to have a conversation” with the members of Congress and officials are working...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is facing pressure to sign bills that would create a state board to monitor drug prices and to increase the state’s requirements for using renewable energy. Hogan, a Republican, has already signed 552 bills and resolutions that were passed by state lawmakers, and has about...
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...
Some workers at a Target in Pikesville announced a strike and called for a boycott of the store Monday, citing “abusive treatment” by management, including “intimidation, spying and retaliation.” Some employees’ hours have been cut significantly without explanation, and in their absence, merchandise...
Smithfield Foods Inc. plans to open a distribution center in Cecil County this fall that will employ 240 people. The Smithfield, Va.-based hog producer and pork processor will open a 420,000-square-foot facility in the Principio Business Park in North East, Smithfield and state officials announced...
Maryland lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a law that gradually increases the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour, from the current rate of $10.10. Here are details of how the law will work. Wait, I thought the governor vetoed the bill? You’re right. Gov. Larry Hogan did veto the bill...
Downtown Baltimore had a decent year in 2018 — not great, but not bad — according to an annual scorecard be released Tuesday morning by the Downtown Partnership. Office vacancies rose a little, retail spending dropped a lot, but new office and apartment towers opened where there were once parking...
A natural, plant-based skin care line plans to move its corporate, manufacturing and research and development operations to space near Baltimore-Washington International Airport from San Antonio, according to the company and St. Johns Properties, which leased the property. Shankara produces and...
Maryland lost 5,800 jobs in February, according to jobs data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, though the state’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent. The rate has remained steady since December but was down from 4.2 in February last year....
Employees of Amazon’s newest Baltimore-area warehouse work alongside a fleet of robots to store, select, pack and ship hundreds of thousands of orders each day to send to consumers’ doorsteps. On Tuesday, the e-commerce giant marked the official opening of the state-of-the-art fulfillment center...
Fearless has expanded its office in downtown Baltimore to create space for new employees as the software firm continues to grow. Housed in the Spark coworking space in Baltimore’s Power Plant Live complex, Fearless employs more than 65 people. The company said Tuesday its workforce could grow by...
Broadly.com, an Oakland, California-based communications platform for small businesses, has opened its first East Coast office in Baltimore and plans to hire 50 people. The tech start-up cited access to top-tier universities, technology leaders and access to the wider Washington, D.C., area as...
A year ago, Maryland’s crab industry teetered on the precipice, with nearly half of its picking houses unable to secure enough visas for the migrant laborers their businesses rely on. The crab houses suffered, forced to sell whole crabs for far less than picked meat — and some reported revenue...
Maryland and other states have reached settlements with four national fast food franchisers to end the use of agreements that stop workers from moving from one franchise to another within the same chain. Maryland reached the settlement to end so-called “no poach” agreements with Dunkin’ Brands,...
After serving 18 years for attempted murder, Tyrone Arrington wanted to find a job and make his daughter — a toddler when he was convicted — proud. But the Baltimore man, who apprenticed as a meat cutter in prison, had reason to worry. “Talking to people that went home prior to me, everybody kept...
Walmart’s Maryland workers will share nearly $2 million in cash bonuses, thanks to a strong end-of-year performance for the mass discounter, the company said. Bonuses for its 18,200 employees in Maryland are part of nearly $207 million the retailer doled out in March 7 paychecks to 912,000 U.S....
Maryland’s economy continued to add jobs steadily in January, enough to push the state’s unemployment rate to the lowest it’s been in about 11 years. The 3.7 percent unemployment rate was lower than the national rate of 4 percent, allaying fears about the harm from a weeks-long partial government...
General Motors will idle its White Marsh plant by May 4, displacing the facility's 296 workers. The automaker disclosed the date of the shutdown, first announced in November, in a layoff notice filed with the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. The notice said the company would...