CVS Caremark Corp. joined forces with the R.I. National Guard and Reserve to sponsor a “Hiring Our Heroes” job fair at the National Guard Armory in Warwick on Tuesday morning. more

BOSTON – Gov. Deval L. Patrick this month filed legislation that would close loopholes to Mass. Municipal Unemployment Insurance. more

Our company is still negotiating the annual renewal of our health coverage. According to the insurer’s rate filings, we should probably expect an increase. more

The December 2012 labor-market data contained a number of very favorable developments. According to the data, Rhode Island’s unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent, its lowest value in some time. more

Construction employment dropped 6.7 percent in Rhode Island from December 2011 to December 2012, the biggest loss in the United States and Washington, D.C., according to a report from the Associated General Contractors of America. more

CVS Caremark Corp. and the United Food & Commercial Workers union have signed a five-year cooperation agreement giving CVS/pharmacy employees at roughly 500 stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego the opportunity to vote on whether or not they want to be represented by the union. more

New England’s unemployment rate was unchanged from November at 7.3 percent in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday. more

Rhode Island’s unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent for December, the lowest unemployment rate for the Ocean State since March 2009, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training said Thursday. more

Unemployment rates were lower in December in 290 of the nation’s 372 metropolitan areas, including the Providence-Fall River-Warwick metro area, according to non-seasonally adjusted data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. more

While employment edged up in Providence County by 0.6 percentage points during the second quarter of 2012, average weekly wages declined by 1 percent as compared to second quarter 2011. more