ABB is opening a distribution center for its Installation Products Division, creating 100 new jobs in the Lehigh Valley.
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Free training on COVID-19 safety offered at Northampton Community College
Northampton Community College is offering free webinars for health care workers and employers on the dangers of COVID-19 in the workplace on June 14. The webinars came from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) vow to continue to vigorously enforce general standards it has adopted to help protect health care employees from the dangers ...
Read More »Workforce issues dominate conversation at annual hospital leadership summit
Improving Pennsylvania’s health care workforce pipeline and the tools available to lessen the problem continue to be at the top of mind for the state’s health system leadership.
Read More »A Conversation With: Lori Lentz, director of extended learning at Kutztown University
LVB: Kutztown is looking to study the workforce needs of Berks County for programming to begin in the fall. Tell me about what you're working on.
Read More »Berks County firm among nine to receive PIDA low-interest loans
F.M. Brown’s Sons Inc. of Sinking Spring received a Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority low-interest loan to purchase processing equipment, Governor Tom Wolf said today.
Read More »Wolf administration visits LCTI to showcase career and technical education
Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed a $6 million increase for career and technical education in his final budget to prepare students for the workforce. Lehigh Career and Technical Institute, (LCTI), Schnecksville, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, would be a recipient of some of that money.
Read More »Apprenticeship programs are on the rise and the state is investing
Apprenticeship programs are growing across the state to help students earn while they learn and provide employers with a stream of workers they need. Thursday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced awards totaling more than $11 million for 26 apprenticeship programs for occupations in agriculture, manufacturing, health care, IT, education, human services, building trades and more.
Read More »St. Luke’s Vo-Tech Co-Op Program seeks to find employees by offering teens on-the-job paid training
St. Luke's University Health Network started the St. Luke’s Vo-Tech Co-Op Program in December and now is working with select students from area high schools and Bethlehem Area Vo-Tech School (BAVTS) to offer learning on the job while getting paid.
Read More »NCC to use state grant to offer new course for low-income students and veterans
Northampton Community College (NCC) will receive more than $50,000 state funding to develop a new Precision Machining program for low-income students, veterans and others in Lehigh Valley.
Read More »Bowery Farming brings indoor vertical farming to Bethlehem
Bowery Farming, a company started by Irving Fain in 2015, is opening an indoor vertical farming operation in Bethlehem in May.
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