LAKELAND - Publix Super Markets Inc. is implementing a 50 cent-per-hour reduction in hourly pay scales for new employees in roughly one out of every 10 stores, the Orlando Business Journal reports.
HERSHEY, Pa. - Nearly 3,000 Hershey Foods Corp. workers walked off the job at two factories Friday, protesting a company offer that would increase their health insurance contributions, The Associated Press reports.
WEST YORKSHIRE, U.K. - Asda is launching a recruitment campaign to increase the proportion of its over-50 employees from about 16 percent to one-in-five, The Financial Times reports.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Productivity Solutions Inc. (PSI) and Knowlan's Super Markets Inc. announced that Knowlan's has installed the PSI ACM 750 Self Checkout unit in two of its Festival Foods stores in Minnesota.
LONDON - British supermarket group J. Sainsbury Plc said today it plans to create more than 10,000 new jobs during 2002 as part of its three-year program to refurbish every Sainsbury's store in Britain, Reuters reports.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Tyson Foods Inc. on Thursday pleaded not guilty to all charges that it conspired to violate U.S. immigration law by smuggling illegal immigrants into the country to work in its plants, Reuters reports.
LAKELAND, Fla. - On Wednesday Publix Super Markets' Miami distribution facility associates voted no to the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Safeway Inc. announced today the promotion of Bruce Everette to corporate executive vice president. Everette will have corporate responsibility for executing a range of business strategies and initiatives across Safeway's 10 retail divisions.
