ABB is opening a distribution center for its Installation Products Division, creating 100 new jobs in the Lehigh Valley. 

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 ...

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. 

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.  

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Bowery Farming, a company started by Irving Fain in 2015, is opening an indoor vertical farming operation in Bethlehem in May.