The odds are you have not heard the name of Fisker Automotive, unless that is you work in the auto industry. For those of you who do not work in the field here is a look at how the company describes itself : “Fisker was born when founders Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler surveyed the [...]
Continue reading...7. February 2012
It looks like more bad news is coming to Trenton, New Jersey, and the cause is layoff. For those of you who do not remember the layoffs that took place last year, and the lawsuit that surrounded them, here is a look at our earlier coverage on the topic: “Tokarcik used to be the city’s [...]
Continue reading...6. February 2012
Earlier this month we took a look at what was hopefully going to be good news for the workers of Luzerne County as the county was looking at cutting back on the number of layoffs that they provided. For those of you who missed out on our earlier coverage here is an excerpt “…The county [...]
Continue reading...3. February 2012
It look like good news may be coming to health care workers who, despite their relatively stable reputation, have been facing serious layoffs in the recent past. According to data being put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics there were a lower number of mass layoffs in the health care industry in 2011 that [...]
Continue reading...1. February 2012
Every once and a while we have the good fortune here at Layoff Watch to announce some good news for the workers of the world. Today is one of those rare and pleasant occasions. The county of Luzerne was planning to layoff about 106 workers in order to balance their budgets. After a meeting this [...]
Continue reading...1. February 2012
In the past couple of weeks we have been talking a lot about the possible layoffs in the city of Oakland. A lot of the talk was about how many workers were going to be cut was going on. The city initially said 400, and then downgraded the number to 200. Some analysts were projecting [...]
Continue reading...31. January 2012
Some of you may be aware of the situation that the workers of The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have found themselves in for some time now. For those of you who happened to miss our earlier coverage here is a look at the situation: “The State of California prison and parole department is [...]
Continue reading...31. January 2012
The odds are that unless you are Canadian you probably do not know what exactly is done by the folks over at Statistics Canada. For those of you who are not familiar with them Statistics Canada describes itself as: “Statistics Canada, a member of the Industry Portfolio, produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their [...]
Continue reading...30. January 2012
The city of Springfield, Illinois has, like every other city in the nation, faced its share of budgetary problems that it has to navigate in order to say in the black and be able to meet all of their obligations. Though for this city at least, it looks like there may be a light at [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2012
WARN notices were sent out of more than 600 teachers in the Virginia Beach school district this year. The notices, which were sent out to all first year, second year and the third year teachers in the district will impact a total of 640 teachers. While all of these educators are not going to be [...]
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8. February 2012
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