employment

It seems that lately more people are losing their jobs not because of performance issues, but because a machine might be able to do it faster and cheaper.

The nation's unemployment rate sits at a 50-year low, and in many places there are more jobs available than there are people available to work.

A new study found that Nevada has the highest increase in jobs during the Christmas shopping season, with employment growing 5.0% in November and December. The national average is an increase of 2.6%.

Amazon on Thursday announced an expansion of the company’s workforce in Las Vegas with plans to create 125 additional corporate jobs in the city.

Nevada’s unemployment rate held steady in October at 4.1%.

The detention center in North Las Vegas is scheduled to open next summer, and the center is looking to fill positions.

Clark County Commissioners Jim Gibson and Tick Segerblom, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, and Workforce Connections’ One-Stop Career Centers are hosting a fall job fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m . , on Friday at the Clark County Government Center, 500 S. Grand Central Pkwy.

The company that provides school crossing guards in Clark County is looking to hire more people.

Job seekers interested in becoming firefighters for Clark County and three other area fire departments are invited to attend one of three remaining outreach sessions this week to learn more about the application process.

Two backers of a pioneering Nevada law to prevent employers from rejecting job-seekers based on a pre-employment marijuana test cast the effort Wednesday as an anti-discrimination measure in a state where recreational pot sales are booming and rules about legal marijuana consumption are evolving.