Posted: 09 Oct 2010 06:46 PM PDT

Twenty-three years after joining the staff at the Easttown Library, Ann Plambeck, the assistant director and reference head, will be retiring at the end of the week. She started as the part-time afternoon storyteller and throughout the years made her way through positions until landing her current one more than 10 years ago.

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 07:31 AM PDT

A company has decided to close a central Indiana call center later this year in a move that will cost about 110 full-time and 150 part-time jobs.

Part-time jobs are a grim reality for some workers

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 09:31 PM PDT

Part-time employment is a reality for a growing segment of the American work force, whether the workers want part-time hours or not.The number of people employed part-time for economic reasons — sometimes referred to as "involuntary part-time workers" — increased by 612,000 nationwide in September to 9.5 million, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday.

Employers turning to temps, part-timers

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 08:28 PM PDT

Companies are making do with a mix of more temporary and part-time workers at the expense of adding permanent jobs, a trend that suggests the U.S. labor market could stay stuck in neutral for months to come, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.