The U.S. Department of Labor reports there were five “mass layoffs” in Hawaii during the fourth quarter of 2009, which resulted in the loss of 467 private nonagricultural jobs. A mass layoff, as defined by the Department of Labor, is when there are 50 or more initial claims for unemployment benefit insurance made from one employer [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 8, 2010
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett received a proposal from Police Chief Ron Palmer earlier this week that, if passed, could result in over 100 layoffs. The police force would stand to lose 10 majors, two captains, and eight sergeants from its management, as well as 82 corporals. However, reducing management would take several years before it took [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Video and computer game maker Electronic Arts is planning to cut 1500 jobs, or about 17% of its total workforce. The cuts are a reaction to sharp drops in consumer spending on entertainment. EA recently acquired online game maker Playfish and is shifting its focus away from traditional “pay then play” games to the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
Microsoft has announced another 800 layoffs to take place internationally. According to the company, the layoffs are coming due to a decrease in demand for its products. This year marks the first large-scale set of redundancies for the software giant. Earlier this year, Steve Ballmer, chief executive for Microsoft, stated that the company would be [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Governor John Lynch has announced that 250 New Hampshire state employees will be laid off in order to save the state $25 million. State workers were offered an option between 19 furlough days (which would amount to a 3.5% pay cut) or to tough their way through mass layoffs. With a 59% margin, the workers [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 11, 2009
Video game developer and publisher Activision has announced mass layoffs as they shut down Shaba Games studio. 61 employees will lose their jobs as a result. It has also halved the workforce at 7 studios. “Activision continually evaluates the resources at our studio properties to ensure that they are properly matched to our product [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 11, 2009
Washington State’s Yakima County is looking at mass layoffs as a serious option to compensate for the county’s budget gap, which is upwards of $3 million. Between 45 and 60 jobs hang in the balance as county commissioners head to Tuesday’s meeting to set a preliminary budget for 2010. It is projected that that budget will [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
NASA contractor ATK Space Systems will initiate 550 layoffs as they begin to phase-out of the space shuttle program. After the layoffs, ATK Space Systems will be still be home to around 3,900 employees between three different locations in Utah. Employees were aware of the downsizing back in July. Over 130 of them accepted voluntary [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
General Dynamics/Electric Boat (abbreviated as Electric Boat), the primary builder of submarines for the United States Navy, has announced that it will be cutting 96 carpenter positions before the end of 2009. The company spokesman Robert Hamilton is citing a change in process as the reason for the layoffs. A hull coating applied to submarines [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 4, 2009
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced on Friday morning that layoffs would occur among state jobs after September tax revenues came in at over $240 million below estimates, placing the state in another fiscal crisis. “Today’s news means we have more work to do,” said the governor. Patrick has already made $7 billion in cuts and slashed 1,400 state [...]
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