Westinghouse Offers Bounty for Nuke Workers

From Post-Gazette.com:

Apparently feeling good about its prospects under Japanese ownership, Monroeville-based Westinghouse Electric Co. yesterday hoisted a big help-wanted sign, offering a $1,000 bounty to employees for referring successful job applicants for the 400 or more openings it expects to have this year.

The nuclear power plant designer, which employs almost 9,000 worldwide, is looking to hire at least 400 people a year corporate-wide over the next six to seven years, with many of the openings in the Pittsburgh region where it employs about 3,000.

The employee referral program was launched a day after Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. was identified as the winning bidder to buy Westinghouse from British Nuclear Fuels Plc. Toshiba's reported $5 billion offer is expected to win final approval at a BNFL board meeting tomorrow.

Toshiba may have different ideas about hiring, of course. Still, the engineering and electronics giant yesterday indicated it envisioned a bright future for Westinghouse.

Heh.