That big empty building at the entrance to the city’s newest business park — Venture Park on the east edge of Lawrence — soon will have its first tenant. Whether the deal will provide a big boost in employment for the city, though, is still a bit unclear.
Plastikon Healthcare has signed a deal to take 22,000 square feet in the 153,000-square-foot building that is near the corner of 23rd Street and ...
A major Lawrence manufacturer has confirmed that an employee has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, but it has no plans to temporarily close the plant, which employs about 800 people.
A spokesperson with Berry Global confirmed that the manufacturer of plastic cups and packages received notice on Friday that an employee at its Lawrence facility had tested positive for the virus.
“In alignment with ...
Here is a fact you may want to take notice of in today’s COVID-19 world: In Douglas County, there is no guarantee you will ever know when one of your co-workers tests positive for the virus.
As the Journal-World did reporting this week to confirm a positive case at Lawrence manufacturer Berry Global, it became clear that most area workers basically are at the mercy of their employers to voluntarily disclose ...
Numbers can make you dizzy if you look at them long enough. (If you watch them while standing around a roulette wheel, you can have the fun of being both dizzy and broke.) If you are feeling that way now, I probably can’t fix those conditions, but I can provide you some new ways to look at the state’s COVID-19 numbers.
The big number
The figure most focused on is the number of new cases ...
Perhaps you’ve never been unemployed before. If you are now — or fear you soon will be — you’re about to enter a government world of applications, weekly paperwork and a whole lot of rules. That’s the price for getting an unemployment check from the state of Kansas.
I reached out to the Kansas Department of Labor to try to learn more about the process so that I can pass along some tips for people who ...
Kansas’ unemployment hotline had a staggering 233,000 phone calls during a nine-hour shift on Thursday, Kansas Secretary of Labor Delía García told me today.
“Well, we had 233,000 attempted calls,” she said. “Not all of them got through.”
For those who did get through, wait times were several hours, in some instances. That’s why Kansas Department of Labor officials — the state agency that ...
