Volkswagen is temporarily furloughing its production and maintenance workers at its Chattanooga assembly plant starting Saturday amid the coronavirus pandemic. While the emergency furloughs are expected to last no more than four weeks and are unpaid, …
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The coronavirus isolation has meant the end for the Salvation Army’s Thrift Store. “Our family store has effectively shut down permanently as of this Monday,” said Lt. Bradley Mumford, who came to his post almost a year ago. “It really was due to a decline in …
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Amazon has hired an additional 1,000 employees in the Grand Rapids area to keep up with the surging number of online orders from people hunkered down in their homes. The new employees will be added atop the more than 1,000 …
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — GEICO is giving back to their members to help customers during the coronavirus pandemic. GEICO’s CEO, Todd Combs, sent a letter to members Wednesday announcing “The GEICO Giveback,” which provides a 15% credit to …
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Nearly 70% of the 580 employees working in Wisconsin for Foxconn and its subsidiaries at the end of 2019 started their current positions in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a BizTimes review of data the company submitted to state officials.
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