JobCentral National Labor Exchange Executive Committee Appointments

Indianapolis, IN — May 8, 2007 – DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) announced today four new appointments to the Executive Committee which governs their JobCentral National Labor Exchange alliance. JobCentral National Labor Exchange (www.jobcentral.com) was recently selected by The National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) (www.naswa.org) to provide job seekers, employers and states a cost-effective transition from America’s Job Bank (AJB) when it is discontinued July 1, 2007 as previously announced by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Members of the Executive Committee representing NASWA include Richard A. Hobbie, Executive Director, and Roosevelt (Ted) Halley, NASWA President and Executive Director of the South Carolina Employment Security Commission. DirectEmployers will be represented by William O. Warren, the Association’s Executive Director, and Robin L. Katzman, President of the Association.

JobCentral National Labor Exchange provides a wide range of employment services to participating state workforce agencies, from job listing distribution to and from state employment web sites to participation in the national labor exchange with other states.

The National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) is an organization of state administrators of unemployment insurance laws, employment services, training programs, employment statistics and labor market information and other programs and services provided through publicly-funded state workforce systems.

JobCentral National Labor Exchange is owned and managed by DirectEmployers Association, a non-profit consortium of leading U. S. employers. Its member companies include an impressive group of industry leaders such as Abbott Laboratories, Analyst International, Allstate, ALLTEL Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, Ashland, Avaya, Baxter, Bell South, The Boeing Company, Capgemini, Cargill, Cingular Wireless, Cintas, Cisco, Coca-Cola, General Electric, General Dynamics, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, ManTech International, Mellon Financial Corporation, Merck, Harris Corporation, Home Depot, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Mayo Clinic, Merrill Lynch, National City Corporation, Norfolk Southern, Northrop Grumman, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, Raytheon, Sears Holdings, Southern California Edison, Southern Company, Sprint, Textron, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Union Pacific, UnitedHealth Group, USAA, and Xerox Corporation.

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