Mature Worker News Flash

• Where jobs go, people are sure to follow (The Daily News of Newburyport)
  A recently released study by the bipartisan Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth sounds an ominous note regarding the state's ability to generate economic activity and thus remain an attractive place for working families.
• Florida-based Spherion Corporation Joins AARP National Employer Team (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  AARP announced today it is collaborating with Florida-based Spherion Corporation to expand its National Employer Team, which helps connect individuals aged 50 and over with job opportunities.
• Center to help former Avondale workers closing (The Daily Home)
  SYLACAUGA — The Avondale Re-Employment Center will be closing its doors permanently at the end of the day on Dec. 19. According to Gwen Taylor with the center, approximately 3,000 individuals have signed in to take advantage of the services offered.
• Roche Offers the FDA Additional MIRCERA(R) Data (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  Roche today announced that it has submitted additional data to the FDA to support its Biologic License Application for MIRCERA®. These data offered are intended to provide as comprehensive an understanding of MIRCERA as is possible to assist the FDA in completing the review process.
• Film reviews! Read all about The Pursuit of Happyness, the latest movie from Will Smith (London Free Press)
  Concerns are mounting over the future of Dana Corp.'s St. Marys plant and workers there will rally to try save the manufacturer, the Canadian Auto Workers said yesterday.
• Roche Offers the FDA Additional MIRCERA(R) Data (RedNova)
  NUTLEY, N.J., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche today announced that it has submitted additional data to the FDA to support its Biologic License Application (BLA) for MIRCERA(R).
• Xeloda(R) Plus Avastin(R) Combination May Produce Clinical Benefit in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  An interim analysis of the XCALIBr trial suggested that first-line therapy with oral Xeloda® in combination with Avastin® may offer clinical benefit in metastatic breast cancer patients who have no prior history of treatment.
• Ark. court tosses provision to end retirement, disability overlap (Pine Bluff Commercial)
  LITTLE ROCK - A ruling by the Arkansas Court of Appeals says a state provision to prevent the overlap of worker compensation and retirement benefits is unconstitutional.
• Where jobs go, people are sure to follow (Gloucester Daily Times)
  A recently-released study by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC) sounds an ominous note regarding the state's ability to generate economic activity and thus remain an attractive place for working families.
• Gray Power: Myths abound about older workers’ talent (The Shelby County Reporter)
  Many companies have misconceptions concerning older workers. There are many myths and reservations about hiring and/or retaining older workers. Employers do have fears about older workers and believe that older workers will be a determent to the organization.
• Business coverage! Get the latest business news from London and surrounding area (London Free Press)
  STRATHROY -- More than 120 workers at a manufacturing plant here are on the picket line, fighting for seniority in their collective agreement.
• Top up retirement accounts of older workers as Workfare becomes permanent: NTUC (Channel NewsAsia)
  SINGAPORE: The labour movement has called on the government to consider topping up the retirement accounts of older workers while not forgetting the middle-income workers when reviewing the Workfare scheme to make it a permanent feature of Singapore's social safety net.
• Budget report will urge reversal of some Tory cuts (Canada.com)
  Finance Minister James Flaherty is shown in the House of Commons during Question Period Tuesday, December 5,2006.
• The happiness factor (The Cincinnati Post)
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - For almost 39 years Richard Feole has worked as a technician at Walco Electric, a company whose business it is to keep other businesses running by fixing their industrial equipment.
• MultiVu Video Feed: Wanted: Radical Redesign Of Nation's Retirement Plans (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  America's youngest workers are eager to embrace a new approach to the design of the nation's retirement programs, believing "automatic" plan features like the auto-enrollment provision in the recently enacted Pension Protection Act would produce better financial results and lead to more-secure retirements, according to a new survey by Prudential Financial.

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