Yesterday, the new fiscal year began for the city of angels with a round of 190 job eliminations, says NBC Los Angeles. More are to come. An additional 232 layoff notices are apparently in the mail. Those workers who lost their job include city library staff, childcare workers and parks and recreation employees. As a result, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 1, 2010
It is becoming less fashionable to furlough employees in order to save money, and states are starting to show a trend towards outright layoffs as the tool of choice. “I can confirm that states are now moving to layoffs they had hoped to avoid,” said Philippa Dunne, co-editor of the Liscio Report, an economic newsletter which [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 18, 2010
Thousands of California state workers stayed home Friday in the final scheduled day of statewide furloughs which began 16 months ago. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger implemented the furlough days in February of 2009 in an effort to cut costs in the face of $40 billion budget deficit. Since that time California workers have [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 17, 2010
The New York Post has reported that, according to a source, New York Governor, David Paterson, is considering the layoff of nearly 10,000 government employees. The potential for so many layoffs arises from the recent federal court ruling that preliminarily blocked the governor’s furlough plan – a move designed to save the state $30 million a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 4, 2010
Pennsylvania’s Governor, Ed Rendell, announced today that the state would be forced to furlough 1,000 employees if the legislature does not approve a measure allowing its new casinos to offer table games by the end of the week. Currently, Pennsylvania casinos only offer slot machines while competing casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Cumberland County is facing a multimillion-dollar budget gap, yet Freeholder Board Director, Louis Magazzu is set on passing a budget that does no include layoffs or tax increases. Magazzu is faced with the challenge of convincing union employees to take a three-month salary freeze, implement changes to health care benefits and make sure all county workers [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
Update: This is an update to the Iowa budget crisis we blogged about last week. Iowa Governor Chet Culver accepted a deal to slash $520 million from the budget, ordering unpaid furlough days as well as requesting that unions renegotiate contracts in lieu of layoffs. “The good news here is we’re making progress,” said the governor. The governor’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
King County, Seattle is looking at a $56 million shortfall in its 2010 budget. Executive of the county, Kurt Triplett, proposed on Monday a series of layoffs, furloughs and park closures to handle the massive gap. Triplett’s proposal would see 376 jobs cut. On Monday, layoff notices were sent out to 145 employees with the remaining [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
Richmond, Virginia-based packaging manufacturer MeadWestvaco will cut jobs from its Evadale, Texas paper mill, eliminating 45 in the next 8 weeks and 25 more by the end of the year. The mill furloughed 36 people in April, who were brought back in June. The mill employs 775. In January, the company announced a plan to cut 2,000 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
Caterpillar is laying off 75 employees at its Mapleton, Illinois foundry. The company is considering shutting the plant for two months if orders don’t pick up. The layoffs were announced by the United Auto Workers Local 974. The plant will employ 525 people after the layoffs. Founded in 1925, Caterpillar is a corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. [...]
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