STL JobWatch

STLJobWatch takes a break

Steve Giegerich — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:41:36 +0000

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 future is here: Employment meets the human genome

Steve Giegerich — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:33:43 +0000

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…

Graphic shows rise and fall of jobs in St. Louis region, Missouri

Steve Giegerich — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:13:31 +0000

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…

October brought job gains in Missouri, St. Louis - jobless rate at 9.3%

Steve Giegerich — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:54:26 +0000

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…

St. Louis recruiter finds no good deed still goes unpunished

Steve Giegerich — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:24:26 +0000

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…

Fed jobless extension not affected by earlier Mo. legislation

Steve Giegerich — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:40:41 +0000

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…

Obama will convene jobs summit in December

Steve Giegerich — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:22:57 +0000

With the federal stimulus package failing to produce hoped for gains and the national unemployment rate shooting past 10 percent, President Obama announced Thursday he will convene a White House summit next month to discuss the nation’s worsening job crisis.

“We are open…

Ratio of jobs to openings (6.1:1) still bleak

Steve Giegerich — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:32:21 +0000

Various federal and state agencies can throw out all the numbers and percentages they like — a 10.2 percent national and local unemployment rate, 15.1 million people out of work across the country, 130,000 of them in the St. Louis…

Dialogue welcome, but “brown shirt” label crosses the line

Steve Giegerich — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:24:15 +0000

A column published Friday detailed some of the efforts undertaken over the past ten years by the St. Louis chapter of Jobs with Justice, a national movement that advocates for fair wages and other work-related issues.

The column noted that Lara Granich,…

Job recovery hampered by slow small business growth

Steve Giegerich — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:51:10 +0000

Although my colleague David Nicklaus posted an item on Mound City Money after we heard Saint Louis University economist Jack Strauss expound on the relationship between small business and hiring at a forum last week, an op-ed piece in Tuesday’s New York Times — Help Small Businesses…