ClearOne Advantage, a debt resolution company, said Tuesday that it plans to nearly double its workforce to 800 employees by year’s end. The Baltimore-based company works with people to consolidate their debt from credit cards, medical bills or other expenses, and negotiate down what’s owed for...
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...
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...
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...
After losing a contract, Omniplex World Services, a firm that provides background investigation services to the federal government, said it must terminate 344 people at its Hanover office by May so they can apply for work with the new contractor, a spokeswoman said. The company, a unit of Constellis,...
New England Motor Freight, a trucking firm that is liquidating its operations, closed three facilities in Maryland last month — in Baltimore, Hagerstown and Northeast — and laid off 233 workers statewide. The company filed notices for the closures with the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing...
Defense and space contractor Northrop Grumman plans to expand its manufacturing operations in Cecil County and add 175 new jobs in the next five years, officials announced Tuesday. The new jobs will expand the company’s operating sector in Elkton, which was known as Orbital ATK before being purchased...
The Maryland House of Delegates voted to give preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill that would increase the state's minimum wage gradually from $10.10 per hour to $15. Delegates debated the measure for a little less than an hour, with Republicans unsuccessfully attempting to amend the bill to...
The House of Delegates will begin debate Wednesday on a bill that would gradually increase Maryland's minimum wage from $10.10 an hour to $15. The bill, as revised by the House Economic Matters Committee, falls short of what unions and other advocates for workers hoped for because it would increase...
Maryland lawmakers are advancing a bill that gradually increases the minimum wage to $15 per hour — but does it at a slower rate that advocates had hoped for. Under the version of the bill approved Monday night by a key House of Delegates committee on a 17-7 vote, the minimum wage would increase...
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....
Maryland labor and health officials plan to award grant money to local organizations to develop programs that help people recovering from opioid use disorders prepare to get jobs and keep the positions. Funding for the Opioid Workforce Innovation Fund comes from a $1.9 million grant awarded last...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in the midst of a robust campaign to hire more border patrol officers, will host a free hiring workshop Feb. 19 at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshal Airport. U.S. Customs, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, needs additional officers...