Sunday, March 10, 2013
Here is a recap of some of the stories on Wayne Patch this week.
Here is a recap of some of the stories that were on Wayne Patch this week. BAE Systems laid off employees from its Wayne site on Monday. The layoffs had been expected for months. BAE refused to disclose exactly how many employees lost their jobs. Ashland Specialty Ingredients, which develops and manufactures chemicals for consumer and commercial products, will move its offices from Alps Road to a new facility in Bridgewater this summer. Gas station attendants will be given back wages they are owed because they were not paid for overtime they worked. The Wayne Interfaith Network has relocated its food pantry to the Wayne YMCA. Personnel running the pantry began looking for another location in January. The food pantry had been located at …
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Company would not comment on how many people lost their jobs. Layoffs are the latest to hit Wayne in recent months.
BAE Systems laid off employees from its Wayne site on Monday. Company spokeswoman Kristin Gossel confirmed the layoffs Tuesday afternoon. Gossel would not comment on the exact number of people who lost their jobs. “We are not releasing the exact number of employees who were laid off,” Gossel said. BAE announced in January that some of the 800 employees at the Totowa Road location would be laid off. The move is part of the British defense contractor’s decision to cut 300 jobs from its workforce of 11,000. Two-thirds of the layoffs took place at the company’s Nashua, NH plant. Employees are eligible for a compensation package, which includes severance pay and health benefits. The Milky Way Education Center is planning on building a new …
Monday, January 28, 2013
Unknown how many of the 800 employees at the location will lose their jobs.
BAE Systems will lay off part of its 800-member workforce at its Wayne location later on this year. The move is part of the British defense contractor's decision to reduce its 11,000-employee workforce by 300 people. The company issued a statement announcing the layoffs Monday. Company spokeswoman Kristin Gossel said the layoffs would "impact the Wayne site" but didn't know exactly how many employees would lose their job. Two-thirds of the layoffs will take place at the company's Nashua, NH plant. About 800 people work at the Wayne location. Affected employees will be notified by March 4. They will be eligible for a compensation package, which includes severance pay and health benefits. The company said in the statement the layoffs are a "…
More jobs are leaving the township with BAE Systems announcing it will lay people off from its Wayne site.
With news that BAE Systems will lay people off at its Wayne location, that is more jobs that are leaving town. More than 300 people lost their jobs when the Hostess bakery closed down in November. Hostess filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012. Bayer HealthCare will close down its Wayne location sometime this year. The company is consolidating its East Coast businesses to Hanover Township. Smaller businesses are not exempt from the trend. The 83-year-old Van Peenen’s Dairy closed down in September. Five supervisory positions at the Wayne Public Library were eliminated in March 2011 due to budget cuts. What can be done to keep jobs in Wayne? Tax incentives? Development? Let us know by voting in the poll and by posting in the comments below…
Monday, July 23, 2012
Milky Way Education Center applying to move private school from Clifton to Wayne. School sued the township for the right to apply to move the school.
Testimony is scheduled to be heard on a controversial application to move a private school to Wayne at the Planning Board’s next meeting on Monday. The Milky Way Education Center is applying to the township to move The Pioneer Academy of Science from Clifton to the BAE Systems property on Totowa Road. School officials want to move the institution out of if 18,000 square-foot facility and into a new 160,000-square foot facility and triple its enrollment from 200 to 600 students. The town council approved legislation in February prohibiting dormitories being built in town expect in specifically zoned areas. The legislation would have prohibited the school from making the move. The township argued that Milky Way did not have the proper …
MrDoughnut
2:54 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013
Next time they tell you to retrain don't believe it the state has done nothing to stem the tide of cheap labor imported on H1B visas an thats why were still unemployed. The schools keep using the unemployed for grant money to feed their for profit business of shaking the tax payers down for another meal ticket for Wall St. more ›