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Job creation in Connecticut picked up speed in March as COVID-19 vaccinations accelerated. Here are the sectors that posted gains. Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant © Kassi Jackson/The Hartford Courant/Hartford Courant/TNS Education and health care posted the biggest gains in Connecticut in March, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. Here, students are dropped off on the first day back to school at Lawrence Elementary School in Middletown last September. Employers added 5,400 jobs in March, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday, with job growth accelera...

Top Workplaces 2021 is a chance for businesses and organizations to show how they navigated their way through COVID-19. The deadline to enter has been extended. Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant © Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant/Hartford Courant/TNS CNC Software, Inc. CEO and President Meghan West. CNC Software is a previous winner in the Top Workplaces recognition program. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, and with an end in sight as vaccines are distributed, the Hartford Courant’s Top Workplaces recognition program offers a fresh chance for more organizations and busin...

Sluggish economic growth during the pandemic held back hiring as employers dropped jobs and the unemployment rate remained nearly unchanged at 8.1% in January, the state reported Friday. The decline of 100 jobs was slight, but it marked the third consecutive monthly loss after six straight months of gains, the state Department of Labor reported Friday. “Connecticut employment sprinted out of ...

Sikorsky added 1,000 workers in 2020. The company’s new president promises more jobs this year at the Stratford helicopter manufacturer. Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant The new president of Sikorsky Aircraft is settling in just after the helicopter manufacturer doubled its pace of hiring in 2020 and he’s promising to keep it up this year. Paul Lemmo, who took the top job Jan. 4, is leading Sikorsky, a subsidiary of defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp., as it rides a wave of strong, though not rising, military spending in response to threats in Asia. The Stratford manufactu...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Pentagon planners are looking to replace Sikorsky’s Black Hawk, middle-aged and slower than the next generation of helicopters [Hartford Courant] The Black Hawk, the workhorse in wartime and in natural disasters, is facing a challenge familiar to those in middle age as a new and faster helicopter swoops in to take its place. Its manufacturer, Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., is working with Boeing to develop a utility helicopter that flies at double the speed and twice as far as the Black Hawk. In a competition for a Pentagon contract, they ar...