Meridian Bringing 700 More Jobs Downtown - Increases Minimum Wage to $17/hr.

More good news for Downtown Detroit. Meridian Health who has taken up quarters in the Compuware Building is bringing more workers downtown.

"[Meridian is] doubling its workforce this year as it hires more than 1,275 employees — including more than 700 in Detroit — by December.

Last week, Meridian posted job opportunities for 827 new employees, including many entry-level positions in its fast-growing call center, to add to its current 1,215 workforce. Some 1,085 are in Michigan.

The company also announced it will increase its minimum wage to $17 per hour to attract the best qualified and also to reward its current staff..."

Full Article at Crain's

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Originally Posted by Lowell

More good news for Downtown Detroit. Meridian Health who has taken up quarters in the Compuware Building is bringing more workers downtown.

"[Meridian is] doubling its workforce this year as it hires more than 1,275 employees — including more than 700 in Detroit — by December.

Last week, Meridian posted job opportunities for 827 new employees, including many entry-level positions in its fast-growing call center, to add to its current 1,215 workforce. Some 1,085 are in Michigan.

The company also announced it will increase its minimum wage to $17 per hour to attract the best qualified and also to reward its current staff..."

Full Article at Crain's

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This raises a question about the Compuware Building; how many folks of each are in there now? [[Quicken, Compuware and Plante Moran), and will this lead to any shuffling of Gilbert employees? The more he renovates buildings along Woodward, does it not make sense to move some smaller players/companies to those space to open up square footage for lager companies? For example, opening up 100K sq feet in 1001 Woodward could position Bedrock to attract a larger, single use tenet, rather than have 5 smaller folks. It seems like articles written lately have suggested large chunks of class A office space are hard to come by and thus downtown is losing out to Southfield.

Sounds like the increased staffing is needed because of Medicaid expansion which is part of ACA [[Obamacare).

sounds good. hopefully more agencies will continue to relocate to the city, including beyond downtown.

Minimum wage at $17.00 per hr? Now that's a decent start, others should take heed.

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Originally Posted by emu steve

Sounds like the increased staffing is needed because of Medicaid expansion which is part of ACA [[Obamacare).

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That...and they are expanding into other states.

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Minimum wage at $17.00 per hr? Now that's a decent start, others should take heed.

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It has taken a long, long time but there finally appears that 'wage pressure' is building. Some companies [[e.g., this one, Walmart, etc.) voluntarily and more governmental units moving legislatively to increase min. wages.

I saw an USA Today article, think it was last week, that job openings are at the highest levels since BLS has been tracking them starting in 2000.

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Originally Posted by Cincinnati_Kid

Minimum wage at $17.00 per hr? Now that's a decent start, others should take heed.

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Heck yeah!

Hopefully lots of Detroit residents will get jobs. Would that help stabilize neighborhoods? Or would it enable more flight out of Detroit [[the color of the flight does not matter)?

Perhaps folks will start moving back into Detroit to want to be closer to high paying jobs. There are still stable, nice neighborhoods that could be built and expanded upon.

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Heck yeah!


...Perhaps folks will start moving back into Detroit to want to be closer to high paying jobs. There are still stable, nice neighborhoods that could be built and expanded upon.

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Exactly.

When one thinks about it: Jobs moved out to the suburbs and people did too [[I'm not drawing a distinct cause-and-effect though. They might have moved to the 'burbs anyway, but who is going to move say downtown if their job moved to Southfield???)

Obviously, one of the themes on this forum is that as the CBD grows that encourages a subset of employees [[maybe young, maybe childless) to move closer to their employment.