New Quaker Steak taking applications

New Quaker Steak taking applications

BOARDMAN

The newly expanded Quaker Steak & Lube, located at The Shops at Boardman Park, plans to hire 150 new hourly employees.

QS&L will host a two-day job fair July 11 and 12; the first day will be at the Holiday Inn, 7410 South Ave., and the second at the new QS&L, 435 Boardman-Poland Road.

Those interested should bring a r sum . Times are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. on both days.

Applications can be filled out on-site or picked up in advance from the trailer at the site of the new location.

Tired controllers can skip work

WASHINGTON

The Federal Aviation Administration announced new steps Friday to help prevent air-traffic controllers from falling asleep on the job, including allowing controllers to use sick or annual leave time if they are too tired to work.

Controllers also will now be allowed to listen to the radio and read to help stay alert during overnight shifts when traffic is light under an agreement between the FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

However, the policy changes don’t include allowing controllers to take naps while on break or to schedule naps during overnight shifts even though sleep scientists say that’s the most effective way to refresh tired workers.

Currently, controllers caught napping, even when on break, can be fired.

Parent company of GoDaddy is sold

SAN FRANCISCO

The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private-investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press.

Go Daddy Group Inc.’s sale to KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures comes as the company expects to top $1.1 billion in revenue this year because expanding Internet use has fueled the creation of more websites and the “domains” needed to help find them. Go Daddy announced the sale late Friday. A person close to the transaction, who asked to remain anonymous because of not being authorized to speak publicly, told AP the sale price.

Bayer settles with US rice farmers

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

German conglomerate Bayer CropScience agreed Friday to pay $750 million to settle several lawsuits with U.S. farmers who claimed a strain of the company’s unapproved genetically modified rice contaminated the food supply and hurt their crop prices.

The litigation goes back to 2006, when Bayer disclosed that its experimental strain of Liberty Link GMO rice was found in U.S. food supplies. No human health problems were associated with the contamination.

Farmers from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas sued Bayer, saying the accident closed off critical export markets and caused the price of rice to drop.

Staff/wire reports