A freshly fired Los Angeles Times pressman shared some shocking details about the publication's termination policies, recent employee suicides and impending layoff of writers with The Frying Pan editor Steven Mikulan. more ›

A behind-the-scenes look at Twitter's new recruiting video reveals that the viral cheesefest cost the San Francisco-based company zero monies. The number is hardly shocking, but it's quite ironic that the social media giant chose such a low-budget method to lure in applicants. more ›

Twitter is apparently hiring, and one peek at their high budget recruiting video will surely have you crafting a cover letter and tweaking your resume in hopes of landing a job at a dynamic workplace where "the future is you!" more ›

Congratulations, California. Although you've been dubbed The Golden State, seven of your cities made the top ten list for the worst cities to seek employment. After clicking through the jobless "winners," one thing is certain: Do not move to California's Central Valley. more ›

An eco-awesome state, California just climbed a few notches on the green scale with the release of The Solar Foundation's National Solar Jobs Census 2011: A Review of the U.S. Solar Workforce. The report, released by Environment California, shows that CA boasts the most solar-related jobs in the U.S. more ›

Los Angeles, the City of Angels... Wait, scratch that. Let's start again. Los Angeles, America's most stressful city... That sounds more like it. According to a recent Forbes study, L.A. ranks number one among fifteen U.S. cities. more ›

Celebrating the progress in L.A.'s struggle to transform poverty-level jobs into good jobs, 500 service workers will descend upon LAX today at noon. Their message? "Don't reverse our progress." The march and rally event also supports East Coast janitors whose contracts are expiring soon and is part of a national day of actions. more ›

California is #1!!! In losing jobs. Our state has lost 6.7% of its jobs (= just over a million), more than any other state in the country, in the past five years, according to Los Angeles Business Journal. more ›

Boeing has announced they will be packing up and heading out of their Long Beach offices in favor of Oklahoma City, and the move will cost 800 jobs, according to the LB Post. more ›

Hundreds of City of Los Angeles employees will be laid off or subject to furloughs as of today, thanks to the start of "an austerity budget" that starts with today's fiscal year, according to the Daily News. more ›

80 initiatives and referenda and are out and about around the state with advocates trying to collect enough signatures so they can qualify for an upcoming election ballot. You might see people at farmers markets asking you to support... more ›

Independent business research and analysis organization The Conference Board has released their data for the ratio of job seekers to jobs posted online for the month of September. They found that there "were 5.66 people in the Los Angeles-Orange County metro area looking for jobs in September for every online help-wanted ad," explains the OC Register. more ›

While it might not be surprising that American Apparel has made the headlines once again for their business practices, it is a touch ironic that the company who is behind the "Legalize L.A." movement for immigration reform revealed today "that the government has found that 1,800 of its employees are either illegally working in the U.S. or potentially illegal to work," according to USA Today. more ›

A study released last week ranks American cities in terms of job growth, and groups the results based on the size of the city. And when it comes to the country's "Large" cities, out of 66, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale Metro Division ranks a discouraging #56 (and 279 out of all 336 cities nationwide). more ›

Good news for geeks and the unemployed alike: The internet is the place to work this year. Per a poll conducted by Twiistup ahead of their upcoming meetup event:

Fifty-seven percent of the Southern California start-ups surveyed said the health of the Internet industry in Los Angeles in 2009 will be better than 2008. A significant proportion of respondents, 71%, also said that LA is a better place to build a startup in the Web 2.0 and / or digital media space over the San Francisco / San Jose Bay area.

LA's Museum of Contemporary Art may have been saved by Eli Broad and his millions, but their road to recovery will be long and hard. As part of their efforts to curb operational costs, and in what is becoming a disheartening national and local trend, the museum "has announced it will lay off 32 employees as part of an effort to finish the year free of debt," the Daily News reports. The layoffs reflect a 20 per cent reduction in staff, and affect 16 full-time and 16 part-time jobs. In addition to the layoffs, the museum's new Chief Executive, Charles Young, says "other cost-cutting operations would save the museum some $4.4. million annually." more ›

On the heels of President Obama asking the EPA to reverse Bush's clamp-down on state-level fuel efficiency standards comes word that not all job-related news in California is bad news--yes, it's part of that silver lining. more ›

California is in severe financial distress. And, as a result, all voter approved environmental projects, totaling $420 million, have stopped, according to the Los Angeles Times. The projects have included the clean up of the Santa Monica Bay, bike paths in San Bernandino and Orange Counties, and the restoration of the Matilija Reservoir. Sadly, without the funding for the completion of these projects, also means no funding for the jobs created with these projects. In Santa Monica alone it would have given $12 Million to pay for jobs in construction, engineering and design. more ›

Early yesterday afternoon, members of SEIU Local 1877 who work at LAX in a variety of capacities in jobs as janitors, skycaps, and wheelchair attendants, went on strike. They have been seeking "higher wages and affordable health care," explaining that they wish to have more pay and security in order to ensure the quality of their lives and their work. The workers opted to strike only when talks between their union and the 9 contractors who broker their employment with LAX hit a stalemate. Although the walk-out was not expected to derail operations at the city's very busy airport, it did affect travel times for customers of United, Southwest, and American. more ›