Tracy Davidson

Google is set to begin covering a cost that gay and lesbian employees must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits, according to a report in the New York Times.
The increased pay is largely to compensate these workers for an extra tax that heterosexual married couples do not pay. The increase will be [...]

Companies are starting to hire again, but many are turning their backs on older job seekers.
Statistics from the Labor Department show the employment outlook is improving for most workers. The unemployment rate for those in the 25 to 54-year-old age group has fallen from a record high of 9.2% in October to 8.7% in May.
But [...]

Once upon a time, there was job security in a government job.
That’s no longer the case. The layoff ax has hit public sector payrolls with force as states wrestle with massive budget shortfalls. Since August 2008, some 231,000 state and local government jobs have disappeared — 22,000 last month alone, according to federal data.
The majority [...]

Can’t find a job? Maybe it’s time to take your search on the road.
The U.S. trucking industry will need to hire about 200,000 drivers by the end of this year, and will need to add another 200,000 by the end of 2011, according to the state of logistics report from the Council of Supply Chain [...]

Job offers were the most plentiful for new graduates who had majored in business administration, computer science, accounting, engineering, or mathematics. But which jobs came with the highest starting salaries? These careers were at the top, according to the NACE:
Consulting services
Average salary offer: $55,703
Bring your expertise to the table by working as a consultant. These [...]

Drugmaker Pfizer Inc will cut 6,000 jobs, or 18 percent of its workforce, at its 78 manufacturing plants over the next five years as it pares back operations following last year’s purchase of smaller rival Wyeth.
The world’s biggest drugmaker plans to cease operations at eight plants in Ireland, Puerto Rico and the United States by [...]

Many of the jobs lost during the recession are not coming back.
Period.
For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss millions of people — like file clerks, ticket agents and autoworkers — who were displaced by technological advances and international trade.
The [...]

Graduation season is here. Which means student loan bills are close behind.
Students received an early reminder of their looming debt a few weeks ago, when a new law overhauled the federal lending program. Under the rejiggered system, the Education Department will provide all federal loans through college financial aid offices starting July 1.
Previously, families were [...]

The job situation is starting to look better for grownups. But college and high school kids could be in for a long, disappointing summer.
While Friday’s employment report showed employers adding 290,000, the biggest jump in four years, unemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds stands at nearly 20% heading into this summer. That’s almost doubled from 2007, [...]

On stage in front of a crowded room of job seekers at the McLean Bible Church, Bob Korzeniewski asks for volunteers to step up and recite the 30-second pitch they’ll use on prospective employers.
The role-playing is a familiar practice for job hunters, but the weekly sessions at the Career Network Ministry reach beyond timeworn employment [...]