PennEast wants to build a “pipeline to the past” but New Jersey should focus on renewable energy, Richard Lawton, executive director of the New Jersey Sustainable Business Council, writes in the 10/2 issue of NJBIZ.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hundreds of thousands of people are hospitalized and thousands or tens of thousands of people die from flu-related causes every year.

The U.S. Labor Department updates its salaried worker overtime rules for the first time in 15 years.

New Jersey manufacturers are struggling to find enough skilled employees even though the industry here pays an average salary of $90,000 annually.

Companies, like Newark-based apparel and accessories manufacturer Unionwear, focus on moving components quickly.

Since 2000, manufacturing employment plunged by nearly 5 million, or more than 28 percent, as the number of manufacturing establishments dropped by more than 78,000, a 22 percent decline.

How a family health crisis sent Kimarie Santiago down a path to small business success.

The Oct. 8 Women of Color Leadership and Empowerment conference – sponsored by Color Magazine, NJBIZ and Hackensack Meridian health – underscores diversity efforts at the health care system.

A North Jersey veteran in his late 20s who was working without much growth potential wanted make a career change into the growing advanced manufacturing segment. “The problem was, he didn’t have any manufacturing background,” recounted Patti Moran of NJMEP. “Fortunately, after reading about some apprenticeship programs, he was motivated enough to contact the U.S. Department of Labor, which referred him to us. In September we placed him in a salaried apprenticeship program.”

Reboli is a Professor of Medicine and the Dean of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden. She is the Chief Academic Officer with ultimate responsibility for all areas of the school. Previously, she was founding vice dean responsible for oversight of the LCME accreditation process, undergraduate and graduate medical education, faculty affairs and faculty development, and developing affiliations ...

While the former Asbury Park schools superintendent’s confirmation as Education Commissioner hit a political roadblock early last year, lawmakers ultimately approved Repollet for the post. It goes without saying that Repollet has his work cut out for him. He will be one of the key figures for hashing out a replacement graduation requirement for the high school classes of 2020 ...