Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. will pay $245,000 and change how it handles pregnancy accommodation requests to resolve a federal lawsuit alleging that it refused to accommodate a pregnant worker at its Tar Heel, North Carolina, pork processing facility and then fired her, the U.S.
Unemployment rates fell in every one of North Carolina's 100 counties in September, both from August and from a year earlier, the N.C. Department of Commerce reported Wednesday, Oct. 28. The county and metro rates are not seasonally adjusted, and the September figures are preliminary.
Italian diagnostic imaging company Bracco plans to invest $230 million in a sterile manufacturing plant in Sanford, North Carolina, its first U.S. facility for producing injectable contrast media, the company and Gov. Josh Stein announced Tuesday, Oct. 27. The project is expected to create 200 jobs.
The Clearing House Payments Company, which operates core U.S. payment networks for banks, plans to open a new office in Charlotte and add 200 jobs in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced Tuesday, Oct. 27. The company said it will invest $11.5 million in the expansion.
US Conec Ltd., a Hickory, North Carolina, maker of high-density optical interconnects, plans to add 224 jobs in Catawba County as part of an expansion valued at more than $149.7 million, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced Thursday, Oct. 22.
Corning Incorporated will invest $585 million to expand its optical fiber manufacturing campus in Wilmington, North Carolina, and plans to add 414 jobs there over the next five years, Wilmington Business Development announced Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Pella Corp. will close its window and door plant in Reidsville, N.C., and lay off 133 workers, according to a notice the company filed with the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The closure became public Tuesday, Oct. 20, when WFDD reported the filing.
Pfizer has told employees at its Rocky Mount and Sanford manufacturing sites in North Carolina that jobs will be cut, but the company has not said how many positions are affected, when the cuts take effect or which departments are involved, ABC11 reported Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Only about 4% of bachelor's degree graduates from the University of North Carolina System work in manufacturing two years after finishing school, but for a handful of engineering and industrial programs the share is many times higher, according to an analysis the North Carolina Department of Commerc
North Carolina's Rural Infrastructure Authority approved nine grants totaling $2,236,000 for local governments, Gov. Josh Stein announced last Thursday, Oct. 15. The state says the projects carry commitments for 219 jobs.
Corvid Technologies, an employee-owned defense contractor based in Mooresville, North Carolina, plans to add 423 jobs and invest $95 million to expand its campus there, Gov. Josh Stein announced Tuesday, Oct. 13.
A community college welding program in rural northeastern North Carolina aims to enroll 300 students over two years and help 270 graduates get welding jobs. Those numbers are goals, not results. Gov. Josh Stein visited Roanoke-Chowan Community College in Hertford County on Tuesday, Oct.
