Economy

The move applies to all Reliant locations, which span across Worcester County and the MetroWest area. The move comes in the wake of staffing shortages at the group, a problem augmented across the healthcare industry by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The state's Department of Unemployment Assistance will be in touch with Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Unemployment Insurance claimants in the coming days to detail state and federal relief options that the Baker administration said Thursday would resolve about $1.6 billion or roughly 71 percent of overpayments.

The City of Worcester on Monday released its employee earnings for 2021, which showed full-time female employees make 29% less on average than their male counterparts, while employees of color make 10-18% less than white employees.

The building, currently known as the Project Center, is to be renamed to the Laurie A. Leshin Global Project Center, according to the Thursday announcement from WPI.

The Greater Worcester metropolitan area unemployment rate fell 0.6 percentage points in February to 4.4, according to a Wednesday press release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Workers at the Starbucks on East Central Street in Worcester announced their intent to unionize in a letter to Howard Schultz, interim president and CEO of the Seattle-based coffee shop chain.

The 6-cent drop follows President Joe Biden’s decision to release 1 million barrels of oil per day for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Masis Staffing Solutions, a talent management procurement firm headquartered in Worcester, has acquired the New Jersey and Tennessee light industrial operations from DAVIS Cos. of Marlborough.

Advocates for employee-owned businesses in Massachusetts are pushing lawmakers to advance a suite of policy proposals that they say would provide those organizations with access to capital, technical assistance, and give workers at conventional corporations greater governance power.

From a lack of affordable housing to the cost of child care, a legislative commission tasked with...