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S.C. House panel to discuss new requirements for workers to collect full pension benefits

...calculations on employees' highest five years of pay, rather than three, to prevent spikes due to final promotions or job changes within the public realm.The calculations would no longer include money paid for unused sick days and vacation at the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-02-06/sc-house-panel-discuss-n
Standstill in hiring puts D.C. on spot

...worst since September 2010. Total payrolls were unchanged, the first time since 1945 that the government reported a net job change of zero. The unemployment rate stayed at 9.1 percent.The news sent stocks plunging. The Dow Jones industrial average...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2011-09-03/standstill-hiring-puts-dc-
Augusta falls from list of most resilient economies

...of economic performance during the recession and recovery.The MetroMonitor list combines metro rankings based on employment change, unemployment rate, gross metropolitan product and home pricing.Augusta was listed on the second-strongest...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2011-09-15/augusta-fal
Salaries of MCG administrators soar in 5 years

...you need to compensate them appropriately for doing those jobs."Some of the large increases resulted from obvious job changes -- Andrew Newton went from being a senior legal adviser in 2005 to serving as MCG's general counsel, boosting his...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-05-02/salaries-mcg-administrators-s
Metro | Medical College of Georgia
Huggins, Coach K back in Final Four after droughts

...attack, been arrested for DUI, endured the stain of a zero-percent graduation rate and the tumult of two contentious job changes.On the other, there's Mike Krzyzewski, a coach making his 11th Final Four appearance who has more or less defined...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/college-basketball/2010-04-02/huggins-coach-
College basketball | Sports | College Sports
Sewing business owner finally found his niche

...Mr. Faircloth said. Mrs. Faircloth said her husband had found his niche. It was a sacrifice, though, because the job change meant a pay cut from $80 to $70 a week. "Quit school in 10th grade and got into stuff that I shouldn't have...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/your-business/2009-10-05/sewing-busin
Local Business | Your Business
1 in 3 are uninsured in Georgia, study says

...work now gathering this sort of detail. Ms. Jackson, who has been without coverage since 1993 after a divorce and a job change, considers it "a blessing" that she found a medical home at the Belle Terrace Health and Wellness Center, which charges...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/08/met_517661.shtml
Metro
Automakers rush to retool for high gas prices

...both companies, executives were alarmed. Eventually they made almost desperate decisions that will cost thousands of jobs, change the vehicles people drive and determine whether their businesses survive. "We need to get in front of it," Mike...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/07/06/bus_464486.shtml
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Overtime

...loan. According to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Newport News, the loan's terms specify that any employment change negatively impacting Vick's income constitutes a default on the loan. Vick is serving a 23-month prison sentence...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/05/09/oth_198183.shtml
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Nadia Butler: Business and technology trailblazer

...them opportunities to grow," Ms. Sims said. "She wants people to be happy and fulfilled, so if they want to make a job change within the company, she tries to accommodate that." Ms. Sims says that Ms. Butler works to develop jobs that suit...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/your-business/2008-02-04/nadia-butler
Local Business | Your Business