NO DAY OFF FROM THE JOB HUNT; SHOPPING CENTER HOSTS LABOR DAY WORK APPLICANTS.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer On Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. at the former site of the General Motors assembly line, people spent summer's last holiday thinking not about backyard barbecues or trips to the beach, but about 2,000 new jobs coming to the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. City Councilman Richard Alarcon sponsored an employment fair Monday on a corner of the 70-acre site where GM workers once built Chevrolet Camaros and Pontiac Firebirds. After decades as one of the Valley's biggest employers, the automaker closed the plant in 1992. Next month, part of The Plant will open. As a tribute to the site's history, the new commercial-and-manufacturing development taking its place has been christened The Plant; it will include a 16-screen Mann Theaters cineplex, a Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box store, and retail shops like Famous Footwear Famous Footwear is a nationwide chain of retail stores in the United States, which offers a variety of footwear from brands like: Nike, Skechers, Aerosoles, Steve Madden, New Balance, Converse, Puma and many other brands. Famous Footwear is owned by Brown Shoe Company. , Babies `R' Us, OfficeMax and Party City. The Van Nuys Boulevard site also will include two industrial tenants - a company that makes wheelchair lifts and a firm that Alarcon described as a ``major apparel manufacturer.'' The former, Alarcon noted, is moving from Pacoima to expand its operation at the Van Nuys site. Those businesses likely will open in fall 1999, while most of the retail establishments accepting applications Monday have grand openings scheduled between October and December, the Seventh District councilman said. Not all of the jobs are the minimum-wage variety geared to teen-agers, Alarcon said. ``I would say a good 1,500 of the jobs will have good wages and good health care benefits,'' he said. ``I'm working part time now, but I want to work full time so I can buy my books at school,'' said Griselda Rodriguez, 19, a Valley College student who wants to pursue a child psychology degree. The North Hollywood woman was filling out a Home Depot application in hopes of landing a cashier job. Rodriguez said she also plans to apply at the movie theater and baby store. At the OfficeMax booth, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. manager Kathy Powell said about 50 people turned in applications on Monday. The office supplies chain plans to hire 30 to 45 full- and part-time workers for its 25,000-square-foot store, which will open in mid-October, she said. Also on hand at the job fair were recruiters for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . and the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . Unlike the retail stores, the city Fire Department has no immediate jobs for applicants to fill - but LAFD LAFD Los Angeles Fire DepartmentLAFD Los Alamos Fire Department LAFD London Association of Funeral Directors (UK) apparatus operator Ralph Rodriguez pitched the prospects for future openings. The department will hire 100 to 150 firefighters every year for the next 10 years, said Rodriguez, a 23-year LAFD veteran. Prospective firefighters submitted their names and were told how to prepare academically and physically for the department's next exam in 1-1/2 years, he said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Robert Hale and Angela Navarro fill out job applications for Home Depot, one of several stores opening soon in Van Nuys. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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