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Video replay: NJBIZ 2020 Fastest 50 Growing Cos.
Couldn't celebrate this year's annual NJBIZ event with us on Dec. 16? Click through to watch the virtual awards ceremony.
Read More »The economic power of green: PennEast wants to build a ‘pipeline to the past’ but NJ should focus on renewable energy
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.
Read More »Time (and a half) for a change
The U.S. Labor Department updates its salaried worker overtime rules for the first time in 15 years.
Read More »Warning shot
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.
Read More »Making it in New Jersey (video)
New Jersey manufacturers are struggling to find enough skilled employees even though the industry here pays an average salary of $90,000 annually.
Read More »Working on the supply-chain gang
Companies, like Newark-based apparel and accessories manufacturer Unionwear, focus on moving components quickly.
Read More »Holding their own
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.
Read More »Salt of the earth
How a family health crisis sent Kimarie Santiago down a path to small business success.
Read More »Making strides
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.
Read More »September 30, 2019 Edition of NJBIZ
A hands-on approach
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.”
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