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Benefits consultants: employer-mandate delay brings mixed reaction
Area businesses with 50 or more full-time employees now have an extra year to make sure they are ready to meet the national health-care reform law’s mandate to provide health insurance for employees. Employee-benefits consultants have been busy in the last few weeks making sure their employer clients understand what the delay involves. The Obama […]
Le Moyne College is the new home of a business-ethics program
DeWITT — Le Moyne College recently announced that it is the new home of a program focused on ethics in business. And the program cited the school’s work in creating the Jesuit Case Series, a group of business cases with “particular attention to issues of ethics, leadership, and sustainability,” in choosing Le Moyne to house
VIP Development buys CenterState CEO building
SYRACUSE — VIP Development Associates, Inc. (VIPDA) has announced its purchase of the building that houses the headquarters of CenterState CEO at 572 S. Salina
Heffron Media opens its first office
BALDWINSVILLE — For the first few months of operation, Brian Heffron handled his new business from his home in Baldwinsville. But now, Heffron Media, LLC has a new home, located in a small office in the Titcomb Center at 52 Oswego St. in Baldwinsville. The office opened on May 1. The firm specializes in graphic
SRC transfers bioforensics group to SU
SYRACUSE — Syracuse University (SU) has announced the signing of an agreement with SRC, Inc., a nonprofit research company, that transfers the assets and employees
Zonta Club of Syracuse inducts new board members
SYRACUSE — Zonta Club of Syracuse, a member of Zonta International, recently inducted new board members, the organization said in a news release. Zonta
New York’s initial jobless claims drop 12 percent
The number of people applying for new unemployment-insurance benefits in New York state in the week ended July 13, fell by 4,743, or 12 percent,
Berkshire Bank to acquire 11 Bank of America branches in Utica–Rome area
Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB) today announced that its banking subsidiary, Berkshire Bank, has agreed to acquire 20 retail bank branches in New York
The Travelers to cut 180 jobs in Syracuse field office
The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRV), a Hartford, Conn.–based insurance company that operates a field office in Syracuse, on July 23 announced plans to cut
CNY unemployment rates decline by one percent or more in June
Unemployment rates in the Syracuse, Binghamton, and Utica–Rome regions fell by at least one percentage point in June when compared to the same month in
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