It’s official. Siemens Energy & Automation is closing a plant in Ohio that will eliminate 88 jobs in the coming months.
The news was confirmed by Business First of Columbus Friday via a state filing. The Georgia-based company told officials the closure of the plant near Rickenbacker International Airport could come as soon as Dec. 17.
Siemens [...]
1. September 2010
The Salt Lake City-based newspaper, The Deseret News, will layoff more than half of its staff as it prepares for a for the future of Newspapers.
The newspaper released what CEO Clark Gilbert is calling “a model for change.” They have a five-part plan that includes creating a cutting-edge digital team. Gilbert says that their plant [...]
1. September 2010
47 employees from Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi were let go on Friday. According to officials at the hospital, the hospital is faced with an $11 million shortfall. The layoffs are part of a series of measures the hospital will take to cut costs.
35 of the 47 employees were full-time, six worked more than 20 [...]
31. August 2010
StarKist Co. began their endeavor to layoff nearly 800 workers this past weekend.
According to Brett Butler, the StarKist Samoa General Manager, The tuna fish supplier went through their first phase of layoffs on Saturday, handing the pink slip to 380 employees.
Butler went before the House Commerce Committee last Thursday to testify about the layoffs. StarKist [...]
31. August 2010
Between 12 and 24 employees at The Connecticut Water Co. have been pink slipped. A month prior to the layoffs, the state’s Department of Public Utility Control approved a 12.7 percent rate increase.
Spokesman for Connecticut Water, Dan Meany, refused to give explanation for the layoffs. “The company can assure its customers that any decision regarding [...]
31. August 2010
Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi has fallen victim to rising costs and the financial crisis. The hospital will give the axe to 186 employees as they cut back costs by more than $16 million.
CEO of Baptist, Kurt Metzner, said, “Expenses are going up faster than our income. We have to press the reset button [...]
31. August 2010
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis is bracing itself for layoffs. The struggling economy and a large number of Medicaid patients have forced the hospitals to reduce costs. Medicaid only pays health care providers 80 percent of their costs. The missing twenty percent amounted to $43 million in 2009. Over the past year, Children’s Hospitals and [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2010
36 Memphis-based employees of The Hilton Hotels Corp. will be let go on September 30. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development revealed the news in a report it released today. Hilton has more than 900 staffers based in Memphis. Layoffs are likely to come from the IT and financial services departments, which are both [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2010
Automaker General Motors announced that they will shut down their Flint Engine North complex in November. The closing spells out big layoffs for GM, with a total of 330 employees receiving pink slips. According to GM spokesman Tom Wickham, the layoffs will go into effect in November. Wickham says the time will allow the company to [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
Fiskars Brands Inc. plans to close its distribution facility in Sauk City, Wis. and eliminate 65 jobs in the process. According to a report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Fiskars Brands revealed the news in a filing with the state dated Aug. 26. The human resources manager for Fiskars Brands, Emily M. Lyle, told the paper the [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2010
California’s Long Beach City Hall is facing losing more than 130 full-time jobs, following the “last hired, first fired” rule. Mario Beas, Civil Services Executive Director, says, “Our job is to determine who has the least seniority and who would be affected,” but how much of the list he is creating will be put to [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2010
USA Today is laying off 130 workers this fall as part of “the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28-year history,” the Associated Press reports. It was not revealed which departments would suffer the cuts, but the reorganization is part of a plan to shift the emphasis of the nation’s second-largest newspaper to its [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2010
California, New York, Florida, New Jersey and Michigan were at the front of an ignominious list released on Wednesday. The list, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ranked of states by number of “mass layoff events.” A mass layoff event occurs when 50 or more employees from the same company file for [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2010
Red Storm Entertainment, co-founded by novelist Tom Clancy in the 1990s, announced 38 layoffs on Thursday. Red Storm, best known for developing the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon video game series, has become the latest in a string of developers to lay off programmers. While sales of video games have remained relatively strong [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2010
Texas-based insurance provider HealthMarkets has announced an initial round of layoffs. The company expects it will be the first round between now and the first quarter of 2011. 70 employees were handed pink slips this month and 180 more are expected to receive them sometime in early 2011. In a filing with the SEC, HealthMarkets cited [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2010
70 employees received pink slips in Springfield, Missouri after ISS Facility Services Inc., a janitorial company, lost a contract with Cox Medical. The layoff notices were submitted via a letter sent to the Missouri Department of Economic Development in Kansas City and to the mayor of Springfield, Jim O’Neal. ISS Facility Services offers janitorial services to different [...]
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