Medical firm, energy company adding jobs in Tulsa
By KYLE ARNOLD World Business Writer on Aug 30, 2013, at 9:47 AM
Employment
The Obama administration approved new rules Tuesday that extend minimum wage and overtime pay to nearly 2 million home health-care workers who help the elderly and disabled with everyday tasks such as bathing, eating or taking medicine.
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus said Monday that his effort to revamp the tax code helped attract some of the business world's biggest names to Montana for a jobs conference that touched on taxes, energy development and other issues.
Tulsa medical servicing firm Emerge Diagnostics will add 45 employees in the next few years, the Tulsa Regional Chamber announced Friday.
Emerge makes medical and software technologies to diagnose soft tissue injuries. The company moved from Nevada to Oklahoma last year.
“The company is in Tulsa to not only bring more jobs to the area, but to become part of the efforts to improve the workers’ compensation system in our state,” Emerge CEO Jerry Wilkins said in a statement.
Emerge will be taking part in the state’s Quality Jobs program, he said. The state has not released data on Emerge’s participation in the program yet.
As published in Friday’s Tulsa World, Mid-Con Energy of Tulsa is also adding 28 jobs in the coming years under the Quality Jobs program.
“The majority of our expansion has been driven by our business plan to operate secondary projects in the Mid-Continent, and since 2004, we have successfully formed more than 25 percent of all the new waterflood units in Oklahoma.”
Waterflood units pump water into older wells to force up oil and natural gas.
Justin McLaughlin, senior vice president of economic development for the chamber, said that job creation across a variety of industries was key to Tulsa's long-term success.
"Our regional economic development efforts continue to focus on these important areas and other targeted sectors," he said.
Employment
The Obama administration approved new rules Tuesday that extend minimum wage and overtime pay to nearly 2 million home health-care workers who help the elderly and disabled with everyday tasks such as bathing, eating or taking medicine.
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus said Monday that his effort to revamp the tax code helped attract some of the business world's biggest names to Montana for a jobs conference that touched on taxes, energy development and other issues.
