Job search: Following Bayou Steel Group’s unexpected announcement that it is laying off 376 employees and shutting down its LaPlace operations in November, the Louisiana Workforce Commission has pledged to help workers find new jobs. LWC says it collaboratively working with Bayou Steel to help employees and will deploy a team to LaPlace. In response to the layoffs, Gov. John Bel Edwards released a statement disparaging recent tariffs on steel.
STEM: Baton Rouge Community College is partnering with the United States Naval Academy and Scholars Laboratory for a Mini STEM Camp to be held on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at BRCC’s Magnolia Building on the Mid City campus. Children in grades seven through 12 in East Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge parish schools along with college students who have interest in the USNA are invited to register for the free event at ScholarsLaboratory.com.
New judge: The federal appeals court that covers Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas will have a new chief judge. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Monday that Judge Priscilla Richman Owen will today assume the chief judge position. Owen takes over from Carl E. Stewart.
