FULTON — Almost 300 workers who lost their jobs when the Birds Eye plant in Fulton shuttered Dec. 16 will be able to apply for federal-government money for training, job search and income support, relocation allowances, and other assistance.

EAST SYRACUSE — A 25-year employee of East Syracuse Chevrolet has assumed ownership of the business, the automobile dealership announced today.

Gino Barbuto, who started working as a service adviser at East Syracuse Chevrolet in 1986, is now the company’s dealer-operator.

NEW HARTFORD — PAR Technology Corp. (NYSE: PAR) is selling its PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS) subsidiary to ORBCOMM Inc., a global satellite data-communications company based in Fort Lee, N.J.

Increased government scrutiny of the misclassification of workers, the outcome of the payroll-tax extension debate, and the Supreme Court’s decision on the federal health-care reform law are among the top 12 potential regulatory issues small businesses may face in 2012.

That’s according to Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX), a Rochester–area based provider of payroll, human-resources, and employee-benefits outsourcing services to small- and medium-sized businesses.

ITHACA - Working out a lot didn’t work out for one state social worker in Tompkins County whose habit of exercising on state time landed him in legal trouble.

Jeffrey Bieder, a former licensed master social worker with the State Office for People with Development Disabilities, pleaded guilty on Dec. 21 to first-degree falsifying business records before Tompkins County Court Judge John C. Rowley.

SYRACUSE — A payroll-processing corporation with upstate New York roots, Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) has a 33-year history in Syracuse.

 

An extensive training program is the key to Paychex’s success, says Mark Ho

Retail manager Sonia DeSilva finds”‚it increasingly frustrating to manage her youngest employees. She complains that the "Millennials" who work for her store "continually show up late for work, ask to leave early, always turn down overtime requ