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Shaw’s layoffs will affect NH

Layoffs at Shaw’s Supermarkets will affect New Hampshire stores, but the supermarket chain is not saying which stores or how many employees in the state will be let go.

The New England chain announced that 4 percent of its retail workers will lose their jobs April 10 at stores in Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.

New Haven Register

NEW HAVEN — Marquise Gary-Bailey had a good run in sales and telemarketing, but a recession that claimed nearly 15 million jobs did not spare him.
So, he sought help from a program that helped him find work 10 years ago: STRIVE/New Haven.

Hartford Business Journal

Business bankruptcy filings reached a 30-year high in Connecticut in 2009, another sign of the economic downturn’s deep impact on the state.

There were 467 Connecticut companies that filed for bankruptcy last year, up nearly 20 percent from 2008 when 392 businesses filed, according to data from the American Bankruptcy Institute. It was the largest number of companies that filed for bankruptcy in Connecticut since 1982.

USA Today

The Manchester-Nashua area of New Hampshire is often cited by magazines as one of the best and cheapest places to live in the nation. With no state sales and income tax, and only about 50 miles from Massachusetts, it’s home to many Boston workers.

Hartford Courant

Connecticut’s unemployment ticked up to 9.1 percent in February, reaching a new high for the recession, a report released this afternoon shows. The increase, from 9 percent in January, comes as signs pointed to improvement in the national jobless picture.

Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. – U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be in Connecticut to talk about summer youth employment programs and honor the work of a Hartford-area jobs training and placement service.

theday.com

Waterford – Dominion is notifying up to 75 employees today that they will be laid off at Millstone Power Station as part of the parent company’s plan to operate more efficiently.

The company based in Virginia owns Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, which runs Millstone. The company first announced the prospect of layoffs in February, after fewer than 150 people participated in a buyout, or voluntary separation program first offered in January.

New Haven Register

“ANYPLACE outside of Connecticut is low-cost,” according to Gregory Hayes, the chief financial officer of United Technologies Corp., the state’s largest private employer with 26,000 workers.

Hartford Courant

Gov. M. Jodi Rell today said she sympathizes with United Technologies Corp. executives’ frustration with Connecticut as a place to do business and criticized the legislature for contemplating new or increased taxes as it tries to deal with a $500 million hole in this year’s state budget.

Hartford Courant

Connecticut’s biggest private employer is determined to move more of its operations outside its home state and other “high-cost” locations, a top executive said today at a conference in New York.