In what it termed a “restructuring of its supply-chain operations,” Ferguson-based Emerson Electric last week informed 330 employees in its transportation division that they will be out of a job by year’s end.

The announcement went out Friday to truckers and…

A hotel industry group is warning that an “inequitable” proposal to slash Missouri’s tourism marketing budget by $7 million may trigger the loss of lodging worker jobs across the state.

The Missouri Hotel Lodging Association estimates the cutbacks could cost 2,500 hotel workers their jobs.…

After a year marked by lay-offs and uncertainty in the steel industry, employees of the U.S. Steel Granite City Works are long overdue for some relief from economic distress if not the heat and humidity of August in and around St.…

Russ Signorino, the local media’s go-to expert on regional employment and other economic issues, is himself out of a job.

The United Way of Greater St. Louis confirmed Monday that Signorino’s position in the agency’s research division, where he served as a vice president,…

The Sara Lee Corporation confirmed Monday the loss of 273 jobs that provide information technology and financial services to the international food, home and personal care conglomerate from a facility in Earth City.

In late 2008, Sara Lee announced a three-year…

The Associated Press is reporting that the number of Americans filing initial claims for unemployment last week was lower than expected.

It’s “a sign that companies are cutting fewer workers,” the AP writes.

Citing U.S. Labor Department data, the AP said 623,000 seasonally-adjusted claims…

One day after the start of what threatens to be a permanent shutdown of the Chrysler’s Ram pick-up truck assembly plant in Fenton, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that the 1,000 workers affected by the closure are eligible for…

All who have witnessed the trauma of others losing their jobs knows exactly what Chris Gurley was going through Friday.

An engineer by trade, a year ago Gurley took the leap from the corporate grind to owner and proprietor of the…

There are Websites devoted to the autopsies of dead celebrities, natural calamaties and exotic car crashes. So, given the current economic climate, it stands to reason there is now a Website dedicated to the disaster du jour.

howigotlaidoff.com invites displaced workers to send they…

When I bumped into Tony Ellerson Sr. six weeks ago he was cautiously optimistic that networking, on-line and in person, would land him a new job. Attending the kick-off of the Go! Network at the St. Patrick’s Center in downtown St. Louis on Feb.…