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MARTA, Dollar General to hold job fairs Saturday
Is there a MARTA bus driver’s seat in your future? The Atlanta transit agency will hold a job fair Saturday in hopes of attracting candidates for full-time bus operator positions. Pay starts at $13.68 an hour with a top rate of $19.54 an hour. MARTA operates 531 full-size buses on ...
Primerica opens new Gwinnett headquarters
Primerica, a financial services company, opened its now Duluth headquarters Friday, a three-story building on Primerica Parkway. The 365,000-square-foot building with connecting wings will house 1,600 employees and it has the capacity to house 200 additional workers. The building has 58 conference rooms; a theater and adjoining TV studio; a ...
Georgia Tech, Udacity, AT&T team up for new Tech degree
Georgia Tech, Udacity.com and AT&T are teaming up to offer what they call the first accredited online master of science degree in computer science. The program, which will be offered beginning fall 2014, will be taught via Udacity.com, a higher education instruction website that offers free classes in computer science, ...
Microsoft suing Ebix over software licensing
Microsoft is suing an Atlanta-based provider of software to insurers, claiming copyright infringement and breach of contract in licensing Microsoft products.In the suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Microsoft claims Ebix has reproduced software without authorization under a 2010 licensing agreement. It also claims Ebix refuses to ...
MARTA looking to hire bus drivers
Is there a MARTA bus steering wheel in your future? The Atlanta transit agency will hold a job fair Saturday in hopes of attracting candidates for full-time bus operator positions. Pay starts at $13.68 an hour with a top rate of $19.54 an hour. MARTA operates 531 full-size buses on ...
Best-paying jobs are in the medical field
You’d think chief executive officers would have the highest-paying jobs given the buzz their annual compensation packages attract each year, but when it comes to average annual pay, CEOs take a back seat to anesthesiologists. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates survey, anesthesiologists rank ...
The best- and worst-paying jobs around
You’d think that chief executive officers would have the highest-paying jobs given the buzz their annual compensation packages generates each year, but when it comes to average annual pay, CEOs take a back seat to anesthesiologists.
State Farm: Georgia 9th in dog bite paid claims
State Farm said Wednesday it paid out more than $108 million in dog-bite claims last year, with Georgia ranking No. 9 among states reporting the highest number of paid claims. The insurer’s total payout accounted for 22 percent of the $489 million in claims paid by insurers across the country, ...
Novelis reshuffles top execs for global regions
Novelis, an Atlanta-based provider of aluminum rolling and recycling services, announced several top executive changes affecting its global organization. The company named new leadership for its North America, South America and Europe divisions, and a new chief for global strategy and commercial activities. The company, which reported fiscal 2013 revenue ...
For many lottery winners, losing is just as big
Billions have been won but billions also have been lost on houses, cars, investments and, of course, family and friends after winning the lottery.
Rise in payroll tax takes bite out of household budgets
Metro Atlantans found it harder to live within their means in the first quarter, partly because Uncle Sam left them with less money in their paycheck. Higher Social Security payroll taxes that went into effect in January gave many consumers less money to cover regular household bills and to sock ...
Dollar General plans 7 job fairs Saturday
Dollar General will hold seven job fairs this Saturday in metro Atlanta to help fill 10,000 positions this month nationally. The job fairs will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in McDonough, Tucker, Conyers, Villa Rica, Lithia Springs, Jonesboro and Newnan. Dollar General has 56 stores in metro ...
Dollar General holding 7 metro Atlanta job fairs Sat.
Dollar General will hold seven job fairs this Saturday in metro Atlanta to help fill 10,000 positions this month nationally.
Millennials prefer health care, tech jobs
Members of the millennial generation focused on college and careers believe their best chance at success is in health care and technology, according to new survey of high school and college students, and young professionals.The National Society of High School Scholars, an Atlanta-based organization, asked more than 9,000 of its ...
Order bars Cartersville tax preparer’s services
A Cartersville tax preparer has been permanently barred from preparing returns for others after a federal judge signed a civil injunction against him, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.Larry Heath, who operated Heath’s Income Tax, Heath & Hames Income Tax and Heath’s Income Tax II, agreed with the court order ...
Fischbein in Suwanee acquired by NY investors
Suwanee-based Fischbein, a supplier of packaging machinery and material handling equipment, has been acquired by Odyssey Investment Partners, the NY ompany announced Monday.Fischbein was sold by a group of investors led by MSouth Equity Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed.Fischbein has 11 manufacturing and sales/distribution facilities in the U.S., Europe ...
Health care jobs top millennials' wish list
If the millennial generation had its way, landing a job at a health care company would be at the top of their career choices, with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta among the most popular destinations, according to a new survey.
RockTenn closing Milwaukee plant
RockTenn notified Wisconsin state officials this week the Norcross-based company will close a corrugated box plant in Milwaukee. The July 5 closure will affect 69 jobs.Most of the business handled by the plant will be moved to other RockTenn facilities in the Milwaukee area, spokeswoman Robin Keegan said.The company acquired ...
Aflac hires U.S. portfolio manager
Columbus-based Aflac, a global insurance provider, recently hired a former portfolio manager at an affiliate of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to be chief investment officer for the U.S. Before joining Aflac, Teresa McTague served as portfolio manager at General Re-New England Asset Management, where she was responsible for managing and ...
Carter’s plans 1st dividend, stock buyback
The Carter’s board of directors has authorized the babies and children clothing company’s first quarterly dividend, and it plans to repurchase up to $300 million in shares.The announcement sent Atlanta-based Carter’s shares up $3, or 4.5 percent, Friday for a $69.79 close.A quarterly cash dividend of 16 cents a share, ...
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