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Hiring remains difficult across a broad range of jobs in the tight labor market, despite the fact that the additional payments to jobless Mainers have stopped.
Read Article Nonfarm payroll jobs in Maine increased by 3,000 to 614,900 in June, according to a report issued Friday by the Maine Department of Labor. Despite this increase, the state’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.8 percent for the fifth consecutive month. Most of the jobs added in June were in public and private education. According to Glenn Mills, labor economist at the Maine Center for Workforce Research and Information, there is always a decline in education jobs in June, but because the data is seasonally adjusted, a smaller decline than usual is reflected as an increase in th...
Members of state worker’s union rally for livable wage ahead of contract renewal Those who did not attend the Sunday rally had to work a "second job" to pay their bills, according to the speakers at the event. Share Maine Service Employees Association member Jonathan French addresses fellow state employees Sunday on the steps of the Statehouse during a rally in Augusta. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA — “Thank you’s are nice, but they don’t pay the bills,” said Dean Staffieri, president of the Maine Service Employees Association. He was just one of dozens of participants w...
Read Article Phil Smith recently took a job at The Dump Guy because he wasn’t getting enough hours at his previous position. He received a hiring bonus and the job includes benefits, all which help because he has three kids. Staff photo by Derek Davis Murray Perce can sum up the Maine labor market in two words. “Opportunities abound,” he said, glancing over a gym full of employers gathered at the Boothbay Harbor YMCA for the first in-person job fair hosted by the Maine Department of Labor since early 2019. Perce was looking for something new after leaving his job as a health and safet...