Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. will begin a layoff of 57 employees in its decommissioned East Lampeter Township facility in Greenfield on April 28 as part of a preannounced closure.

Recent hires also include B.R. Kreider & Son Inc. and Gish’s Furniture.

York-based Wolf Home Products has expanded its operations in Gwinnett County, Georgia, a move that will add approximately 20 jobs over the next two years to the 30 the company already has there.

Recent hires in the Midstate include: Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators, Eckert Seamans and United Church of Christ Homes.

It can be tempting for managers to feel that empty positions must be filled as quickly as possible to maintain normal operations. But as the Eisenhower Principle reminds us, we must not allow what’s urgent to overtake what’s important. 

Walmart is raising pay for its more than 36,000 pharmacy technicians.

An update to Pennsylvania’s rules regarding how employers pay tipped workers will be voted on by the state Independent Regulatory Review Commission during a meeting next month. 

Lancaster-based excavation company H.L Wiker has added two long-standing employees to its ownership team as part of the 34-year-old company’s succession plan. 

Lancaster-based advisory firm RKL will expand into Franklin and Adams counties following a newly announced merger with Chambersburg-based Rotz & Stonesifer P.C. 

Herhey-based Jacobson Warehouse Company plans to lay off 77 of its 228 employees early next year. 

Pennsylvania’s government employees in state health care facilities and high-risk congregate care facilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 7 according to an initiative announced by Governor Tom Wolf on Tuesday.

Global health care company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plans to permanently close its 219 Allen Road, Carlisle facility by early 2022, impacting 308 employees.

Citing a successful 2020, Hanover-based Utz Brands, Inc. announced it contributed nearly $6 million to its 401(k) profit-sharing plan this year.

Supply chain management and logistics solutions firm DB Schenker will lay off 206 of its employees at a Shippensburg warehouse.

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Co. furloughed 603 employees, part of two rounds of layoffs at the company following the closure of non-life sustaining businesses by Gov. Tom Wolf in March.