More layoffs may be coming to municipal workers in the state of New York. The city of Orchard Park did manage to narrowly avoid the layoff of police officers for now, under the newly adopted 2012 budget, but sadly, that does not mean that they will not happen this year. If you’re wondering how it [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 10, 2011
The Salinas City Council has approved its budget for 2011-2012, and reports that the city’s nine unions are making helpful concessions. The plan currently is to let go 57 workers, 22 of them police, but lay-offs may still be avoided. The city will do a final review of the plan in mid-July. Salinas has cut [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 2, 2010
The United Space Alliance laid off 333 employees at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Friday as the NASA Space Shuttle program comes to an end, with an additional 400 being laid off at the various aerospace firms around the area. Bay Houston Economic Partnership President Bob Mitchell said they hope that, “some portion of these will [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Layoff notices were sent to 2,200 Newark city employees today. The list includes 165 police officers, about 90 firefighters, and hundreds of sanitation workers that will have their positions outsourced. The city faces an $83 million budget deficit and these layoffs are an attempt to close that gap. These layoff notices have come just five [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 24, 2010
New York commissioners have been tasked with pruning 2,000 state jobs before the end of 2010, as ordered by New York Governor David Paterson. A memo was sent out by Paterson on Thursday ordered that the cuts be implemented through layoffs and attrition by no later than December 31st. These layoffs have been foreshadowed for [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Boston Medical Center has announced plans to reduce its workforce by 119 staff members. September 30 marks the end of their fiscal budget, which currently has a $175 million shortfall. The hospital employs close to 6,000 people and the layoffs will only be making a small impact on the overall budget gap. “We can not [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 16, 2010
During spring of this year, school districts across Georgia expected massive layoffs in the face of drastically reduced state money. Up to 9,000 people were expected to receive layoff notices statewide. Two factors have since come together in order to mitigate the number of jobs lost. First: nearly 2,000 people were able to retire or [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 16, 2010
The federal jobs bill that was signed into law last week includes $1.2 billion earmarked for California schools. With the money, school districts across the state are expected to rehire some 16,500 teachers who were laid off at the end of the last school year. Most school districts are loath to begin hiring, however, since [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 9, 2010
Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton warned in June that without an extra $2 million his department would have to lay off 88 deputies out of a force of 287. Despite being one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, Forsyth had experienced a precipitous drop in property tax revenue in the wake of the 2008 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Kane County, Illinois will likely lay off over 70 health care workers on August 15th. This in response to growing frustration over the state’s pending late payments of $1.5 million in grants to the county. The county currently intends to forgo the grants, which require it to perform certain services, effectively ending the programs they [...]
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