The PR firm’s local office made the cuts because revenue projections are “modestly less” than it previously anticipated.
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Medical device manufacturer Medtronic has cut about 65 percent of the 2,000 positions it intends to eliminate and beat it’s fourth-quarter earnings expectations.
Delta Air Lines plans to expand its work force at its reservation call center in Chisholm, which currently houses about 500 full-time employees.
The Minnesota House already approved and the Senate is poised to vote Thursday on the bill, which would provide as much as half a year in additional unemployment benefits to idled workers during labor disputes.
One Twin Cities orchestra has called off its remaining concerts this season, while another resumed performances and picked a new, albeit familiar, leader.
The cuts affect about 4 percent of employees in Medtronic’s spinal business; none of the layoffs impact the company’s Minnesota work force.
Boise’s job cuts are the latest in a series of blows to Minnesota’s wood products industry.
Next month, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard will visit with shoppers at the Mall of America, answer questions about career possibilities in the state, and encourage Minnesotans to consider relocating to South Dakota.
Musicians agreed to salary cuts, and the orchestra will be reduced in size; players are now calling for the appointment of a new leader for the orchestra’s management organization, one that would replace its interim president.
The restaurant chain’s first-quarter profits fell to $62,000 from $817,000 during the same period in 2012.
Software developer Calabrio moved its headquarters from Plymouth to a 30,000-square-foot office in downtown Minneapolis.
The company notified state officials that it plans to relocate much of its New Hope operations, a move that will affect about 150 local employees.
TCF Financial CEO Bill Cooper recently told analysts that the company cut 700 branch employees in order to increase efficiency.
St. Cloud-based scrapbooking company Creative Memories filed for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and plans to lay off 163 employees.
The job losses likely stem from unseasonable weather; meanwhile, a declining number of Minnesotans seeking jobs helped lower the state’s unemployment rate by 0.1 percent.
Metro Transit is seeking to hire more than 100 bus drivers to replace those who will become train operators for the new Central Corridor light-rail system.
Atomic Data expects 2013 revenue to reach between $16 million and $18 million in light of the acquisition, which also added five employees to its roster.
After rejecting essentially the same offer four times, 55 percent of voting union members on Saturday voted to ratify the contract and end a drawn-out, contentious labor dispute.