Approximately 30 people were in line when the River City complex’ employment center doors opened at precisely 8 a.m. in Carondelet.

The $370 million casino complex aims to have 1,000 people on its payroll by the time the first phase of…

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Pinnacle Entertainment will throw open the doors of an employment center at 8 a.m. Thursday for applicants hoping to land a job at the River City, the $370 million South County casino the company is slated to open next Spring.

The casino operator…

Joblessness in the St. Louis metropolitan region — which hit double digits in September for the first time in more than a quarter century — has again topped 10 percent as nearly 130,000 area residents continue to look for work.

Seasonally-adjusted by…

Economic forecasting meets Sir Isaac Newton in the 50-state employment growth outlook released this week by IHS Global Insight. Those of you who stayed awake during elementary physics will recall how Newton posited that for every action there is an equal and…

The guy who tracks the job scene jobs for the Post-Dispatch is taking a few days off from his. The blog will return the week of Nov. 22.

– Steve Giegerich

The federal government is about to add more fine print to the ubiquitous Employment Equal Opportunity Commission posters found in every office, factory, restaurant and shop in the country.

The posters will advise of a new law — effective Nov. 21 — barring employers…

The STLtoday.com graphic design team of Brian Williamson and Erica Smith have developed an interactive map tracking employment trends in the St. Louis region.

Drawn from state, local and federal jobs data, the map provides snapshot of area employment. It reflects…

Missouri’s jobless numbers dropped two tenths of a point in October, a dip officials say supports a forecast that cited the state as one 11 across the nation demonstrating positive signs of emerging from the recession.

At 9.3 percent, Missouri’s seasonally adjusted…

As anyone who follows the comments on blogs and stories posted on stltoday.com will attest, there are a lot of angry people out there. But this caught St. Louis area executive  recruiter Bill Mueller by surprise.

The most common complaint aimed at people…

Several readers have asked if there is a connection between last week’s U.S. Senate enactment of a bill that will extend unemployment benefits by 20 weeks and the February  decision by the Missouri General Assembly to turn down federal stimulus jobs funds.

The…