Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 1/18/2021 4:54:05 PM
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a record number of Granite Staters applying for unemployment benefits.
The most recent numbers provided by New Hampshire Employment Security for the week ending Jan. 9, showed 3,067 initial claims by residents applying for benefits, while the number of continued claims stood at 27,283 for the week ending Jan. 2.
Under the the most recent stimulus bill, which totaled $900 billion, the unemployed sector will receive up to an additional $300 per week from unemployment benefits through March 14.
Locally, among some of the bigger employers in the region, the current state of hiring, pool of potential candidates and what the future looks like on the employment front varies from sector to sector.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 12/16/2020 9:43:00 AM
MilliporeSigma continues the expansion of its Jaffrey facility while manufacturing products used to fight the novel coronavirus. The company announced last week it plans to add 275 jobs to its growing workforce after the completion of a new $22 million, 25,000-square-foot project in 2022, adding to the 260,000-square-foot existing Jaffrey facility.
“This is an ongoing, multi-stage expansion that has been approved by town officials,” said Karen Tiano, company spokesperson for MilliporeSigma. “Construction is underway on the new building, which is next to the existing building at 11 Prescott Road in Jaffrey.”
Tiano said MilliporeSigma is “expanding capacity and bringing on additional production lines in Jaffrey as we speak.”