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Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's second largest oil service company which is responsible for most of the world's largest fracking operations. [6] It employs approximately 55,000 people through its hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions in more than 70 countries.
Since the start of the recession, 8.8 million jobs have been lost, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [10] In the U.S., jobs paying between $14 and $21 per hour made up about 60% those lost during the recession, but such mid-wage jobs have comprised only about 27% of jobs gained during the recovery through mid-2012.
Jamie Leigh Jones (born 1985) [1] is a former employee of KBR, an American engineering, construction and private military contracting company. During her employment, KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton from 1962 to 2007. [2] [3] She is notable for accusing then fellow KBR employees of drugging and gang-raping her on July 28, 2005, at Camp Hope ...
Of those job losses, 700,000 stem from layoffs at just 25 companies, according to 24/7 Wall Street's analysis of data from employment consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Certain ...
More good news on the job front. The Labor Department announced today that the number of people filing for unemployment benefits fell, just slightly, but it's the first time that has happened in ...
Tom Roberts was laid off in April 2009, six weeks after he told his supervisor that he needed to have brain surgery. Paying the bills with a now-exhausted balance of vacation and sick days ...
The Detroit News published a story in 2005 on how the Big Three U.S. automakers paid more than 12,000 idled employees their full salary and benefits in "jobs bank" programs. The program was established in the 1984 UAW labor contracts with the Big Three to protect workers' salaries and discourage layoffs, as part of the automakers' contracts ...
Long-awaited layoffs arrived at Time Inc. Tuesday, and those near the top were not spared. At Fortune, three of the four remaining assistant managing editors have been pink-slipped. John Brodie ...