School districts all over the nation are facing cuts to their budget and staff on a daily basis, and Cleveland Metropolitan School District is no exception. The interim CEO of the school district, Peter Raskind, has proposed closing seven schools and laying off 835 school employees, as well as not replacing 135 employees that are [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 21, 2011
Like most counties in California, Merced County is facing a tough budget gap that will require it to make some mass layoffs. Around 150 jobs are expected to be cut in Merced County in the face of an $18 million deficit. The 150 jobs will be comprised of layoffs and vacancies. One job that is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 5, 2011
In line with the township’s budget crisis, Bridgewater, NJ axed about five municipal staff to cut its cost and generate savings. The affected employees include one employee in Bridgewater’s planning department, one in the clerk’s office, one in the tax office and two employees from the department of public works. The layoffs were made before [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 4, 2011
In line with the city’s cost-cutting scheme, about 10 street and sanitation employees were laid off in Bessemer City, Alabama. The job cuts were aimed to generate savings amidst the financial crisis in Bessemer. The affected employees were those who had been working with the Street and Sanitation department for less than one year. Bessemer [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Officials in the city of Paterson, New Jersey are planning to axe over 150 police officers, representing 30% of the police force, to mend the city’s $54 million budget gap. Based on the reports, the council, together with Mayor Jeffrey Jones, had a closed door meeting on Friday to tackle the possible citywide layoffs and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 1, 2010
In line with the state’s budget deficit, the Department of Health and Hospitals in Central Louisiana slashed their 2010-11 budget resulting in the elimination of 200 health jobs, mass layoffs, consolidation of some health units and less benefits for clinical services. The health department made a midyear cut of $20.8 million from their 2010-11 fiscal [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 17, 2010
City officials in Tucson, Arizona have seen the future and it doesn’t look pretty. Members of the city council, meeting on Tuesday to discuss Tucson’s 5-year fiscal outlook, acknowledged that the city is facing a $51 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year. There is some hope that revenue generated by taxing medical marijuana [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 10, 2010
By a vote of six to one, the city council of Santa Clara, CA has voted to accept a plan that would mean layoffs for 80 city workers unless the city employees’ union votes to accept a 5 percent pay cut this year in lieu of a previously-negotiated 4.5 percent pay raise. “It’s in the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 1, 2010
New York Governor David Paterson announced early today that the state of New York would lay off nearly 900 employees by the end of calendar year 2010 in an effort to balance the state’s budget. The prospect of layoffs has been lingering in the air since early this year but there had been hope that [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 30, 2010
After adopting a new 2011/2012 budget yesterday, commissioners in Genesee county, Michigan announced the elimination of 118 county positions. 60 layoffs have already been announced over half a dozen county departments including sheriff (13 layoffs) and health (16 layoffs). County Finance Committee Chairman Archie Bailey was grave in his remarks about the layoffs: “This is [...]
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