jobs and workplace

A hiring plan by Maryland's hospitals is worth a slight increase in their rates.

Armed with a special $5 million grant, the city is poised to launch a job-training program to help at least 700 young adults from struggling Baltimore neighborhoods find work as plumbing and electrical apprentices, automotive technicians and lab associates.

Here's how Gov. Larry Hogan blew the politics of making government more efficient.

Since 2008, the Federal Reserve has kept the federal funds rate — the banks' overnight borrowing rate — near zero. Now more confident about prospects for growth and inflation, policymakers are preparing to raise those short-term rates. Higher borrowing costs for banks can cause mortgage rates to jump, jobs to become scarcer and stock to tumble — but not always. Here are five things you need to know before the hike.

More than two dozen state corrections workers once targeted for layoffs will be able to keep their jobs, Gov. Larry Hogan's administration said Monday.

It's laudable that powerful and highly-paid administrators are showing heartfelt concern for the disadvantaged neighbors living at the doorsteps of their Baltimore hospitals. But offering low-paying entry level jobs, in isolation, may ultimately work against their goal of repairing inner city communities.

In announcing that she would not seek re-election, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Friday she's proud of her record.

Three years after Howard County's Alcoholic Beverage Hearing Board denied a liquor license application for a proposed business on the second story of the Wegmans store in Columbia, a new entrepreneur is hoping to win the board's approval for a venture in the same spot.

Today marks Labor Day, the national holiday dedicated to the achievements of the American worker. Most of us will celebrate the day at the beach or with a cookout or doing ironically exactly the opposite of what the day celebrates, the satisfaction of going to work and earning a living. But in this current day, celebrating a job seems more than appropriate. With economic uncertainty seemingly everywhere, having a job -- and maybe more concerning -- keeping a job isn't a given anymore.

AOL said Thursday morning it plans to buy Baltimore mobile advertising company Millennial Media for about $248 million in a deal that would create a single hub for the industry known as "ad tech" here.

Laurel High School is seeking employers to provide volunteer job opportunities to seniors at Laurel High School

To schedule an interview time, contact Jennifer Maffucci at 410-386-2521 or jmaffucci@ccg.carr.org no later than 4 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8.

Putting city residents to work on Baltimore's $1 billion school renovation project looks like a win-win situation

Baltimore City school officials are seeking to relax hiring rules to make applicants with nonviolent misdemeanor convictions — such as drug possession and burglary — eligible for jobs renovating school buildings.

After an unusual confrontation between top state officials and employees whose jobs they want to eliminate, the Board of Public Works decided Wednesday to send Gov. Larry Hogan's job cut plan back to the state's prison and parole agency for a second look.

In a combative appearance before the Baltimore City Council, Baltimore Schools CEO Gregory Thornton said Monday that the district is having difficulty retaining principals — but chided the city for not providing more money for its public schools.

The U.S. should follow the British model and establish its own boot camps for the unemployed, says Cal Thomas.

Maryland employers added more than 9,000 jobs in July, according to a new Department of Labor survey data released Friday.

Examining post-unrest violent crime in Baltimore

A company specializing in wheelchair accessible van conversions is moving to Westminster, and is expecting to hire an additional 400 positions within the next three years.

Hillary Clinton's college proposal is a vote-buying effort that will add one more entitlement to an economy that can't afford it.

More than 1,200 Baltimore government workers made more than $100,000 in salary and overtime pay in fiscal year 2015, salary data show.

Dozens of teachers wearing red to support their cause filled the Charles I. Ecker Boardroom Wednesday afternoon to send a message to the Carroll County Board of Education that they want a raise and competitive salaries.

The Baltimore Sun Media Group's free weekly newspaper b will cease publication at the end of the month, seven years after it launched targeting a younger audience.

The city's longest-serving agency head, with 13 years at the helm of the nation's fifth-largest Public Housing Authority, makes about $214,000 per year, according to an agency spokeswoman. But it's not the whole story.

With summer quickly coming to an end, public school officials across the Baltimore region have been scrambling to fill more than 400 vacant teacher positions.

The internship program at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore is unlike most traditional programs; it gives students practical, hands-on experience in a workplace through job sharing. This is an innovative way to do business and help youth prepare to enter the workforce. Programs like this, if scaled up, could help boost the economy of the city by keeping jobs here and giving students the tools and experience they need to truly flourish.

Requiring large public companies to disclose the ration between their CEO's pay and the median worker is not just about shaming executives, there are real, economic consequences to income inequality.

A group of appellate judges recently decided to take up theology while writing a legal opinion. As might be expected, they got into trouble.

Amazon said Thursday that it has hired more than 2,500 people for full-time positions in Baltimore, a count that well exceeds initial estimates and comes amid a broader hiring boom at the company.

The annual salaries of Baltimore employees for Fiscal Year 2015 were released this week. Here's a look at the top 10.

Cierra Geiger, 16, manned the cash register at Undersea Outfitters on Tuesday, a dive shop in Westminster where she has spent her summer providing customer service, filling dive tanks and unloading equipment at the small business.

As the number of poor children in Maryland rises, lawmakers need to focus on policies that support parents' ability to improve the lives of their kids

Advocates say some forms of discrimination still persist a quarter century after landmark civil rights legislation guaranteed equal access for people with disabilities.

Anthem is buying rival Cigna in a deal valued at $54.2 billion that will create the nation's largest health insurer by enrollment, covering about 53 million patients in the U.S.

Maryland employers shed 6,200 jobs in June — one of the largest monthly declines in the country, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

After finishing her tenure as a 30-year teacher at Hampstead Elementary School, Teresa McCulloh takes the reins of the Carroll County Education Association, a union representing teachers, guidance counselors and registered nurses in the county.

As the Carroll County Board of Education prepares for upcoming contract negotiations with the county teacher's union Carroll County Education Association this fall, both organizations say securing competitive salaries and reducing workloads for teachers will be a top priority.

One of the key figures behind Kansas City Chiefs outside linebacker Justin Houston's blockbuster $101 million six-year contract is former Morgan State strong safety and Deer Park Middle school coach and teacher Greg Barnett.

The U.S. economy would grow by 2 percent if labor force participation among men of color was equal to that of white men, according to a report released Tuesday by the Obama administration that is intended to highlight White House efforts to reach out to young minority men.

Employee compensation was at the heart of a discussion between the Carroll County Board of Commissioners and the county Board of Education, who met Thursday to discuss a long term funding plan for the public school system.

The Baltimore region is justifiably proud of strong companies in cutting edge fields like cybersecurity and biotech, with a workforce powered by our world-class universities and colleges. High-tech, higher education-driven industries are our future, but we also must double down on the training and transportation connections needed to create and fill what are called "middle-skill" jobs.

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin and some of the leaders of the city's top philanthropic and faith organizations said Monday that the lack of job opportunities for impoverished communities in Baltimore is a key obstruction to the city's recovery after the riots in April.

Hunt Valley-based armored car company Dunbar Armored plans to lay off 100 employees next month, according to a notice filed Tuesday with the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.

Government-mandated paid sick leave received a healthy boost from the Montgomery County Council this week

Calling for a renewed effort to eliminate poverty, federal lawmakers met in Baltimore on Tuesday to discuss underlying issues they said contributed to the death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent riots: racism, lack of economic opportunity and disparities in education.

Recently, the Democratic members of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, working in partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus, issued a report on the economic challenges facing African Americans today. It found that vast disparities remain. We plan to explore these startling inequities at a Congressional Black Caucus and Joint Economic Committee forum to be held Tuesday morning at the University of Baltimore.

Maryland's labor market improved for the second month in a row in May, with employers adding 13,500 jobs as the number of people entering the workforce swelled, according to new estimates released Friday.