A drop in tax income is spurring the city of Cincinnati to consider laying off hundreds of city workers. City officials project a deficit of $28 million for 2009, up from an earlier estimate of $20 million. Cincinnati may also reduce call center hours, review consultant contracts and limit supplies. Department heads have been instructed to consider [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 10, 2009
Chemical maker DuPont will cut 32 New York workers; 20 in Niagara Falls and 12 in Tonawanda, as part of 2,000 jobs cuts across its workforce. Those laid off in this round include salaried employees and contractors. The New York layoffs will be complete by June 30th, and severance packages will be offered. The Niagara Falls plant [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 8, 2009
Sutter Health has notified its 800 information technology professionals that IT will be targeted for job cuts across the 26-hospital medical system. Contract workers in particular will be affected. The health system is cutting costs in other ways, such as freezing funding for conferences and training. Sutter Health is a not-for-profit hospital network in Northern California, based in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 11, 2009
PCS Phosphate will eliminate 12 contractor jobs, and reassign 12 other mine workers. The firm blames delays in getting a federal permit to expand its mining operation in Beaufort County, North Carolina. Environmental advocates say the company itself is responsible. PCS Phosphate will idle one of two excavation teams that strip off the top 100-foot layer of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Rockwell Collins is cutting 30 jobs at its Richardson, Texas facility as part of a plan to eliminate 500 positions company-wide. A spokesperson for the aerospace concern, which employs 975 in Richardson, said most of those cuts will happen this month February. Two hundred of the 500 positions being cut will come from Rockwell’s Cedar Rapids, Iowa [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
Peoria, Illinois-based heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is laying off 17,000 workers and buying out 2,500 others, to reduce costs in what it predicts will be the weakest year for business since the end of WWII. The layoffs and buyouts, which will hit 10% of the company’s regular workers and affect 8,000 contract workers, are the biggest [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 9, 2009
Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services corporation, will cut about 5% of its North American work force plus an unspecified number globally, in response to the economic meltdown and weaker drilling activity. Other firms, such as Halliburton, are also weighing cuts after the recent plunge in crude and natural gas prices spurred oil companies to reduce [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 9, 2009
Menlo Park, California’s Google has fired “a substantial number” of its contract and temporary employees, but did not reveal the exact number. In October, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the company would reduce some of the 10,000 contractors on its payroll as a cost-cutting move. News of the layoffs comes in an SEC filing that Google submitted [...]
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