Northwest Allen County Schools cuts pay to members of its classified staff, including custodians, secretaries, nurses and drivers by 3 percent to avoid additional employee layoffs. Board member Paul Sloffer said that NACS is planning to balance its budget over a number of years in order to avoid additional employee layoffs. District administrators and NACS [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 3, 2011
Nearly 1,600 jobs hang in the balance as Florida’s legislature prepares to restructure the Florida Department of Health. According to a 154-page report released on Tuesday, lawmakers proposed cutting 1,608 health department jobs. In addition to the massive job cuts, several divisions of the health department will be consolidated and reorganized. The proposal will supposedly [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The Minneapolis-based Cappella Education Co., an online university, has revealed plans to cut around 125 non-faculty positions. According to Kevin Gilligan, the chairman and CEO of Capella Education, market uncertainty is to blame for the job cuts. “While Capella produced strong full-year 2010 results, we are now operating in an uncertain environment,” he said. “The [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 6, 2010
Officials of the Cincinnati police department have made a proposal to cut 144 officers and demote an additional 160 in an attempt to reach a $16 million expense savings goal set by City Manager Milton Dohoney. “This is not to say that somebody isn’t going to pull a rabbit out of a hat and save [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 7, 2010
Social bookmarking site Digg has cut its staff for the second time in the last two years. CEO Kevin Rose reduced 10% of the workforce, although weighing in at under 100 employees means that this translates to fewer than 10 people. Along with the news of layoffs, as was the case during the previous round, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 6, 2010
New York City will be cutting around 11,000 jobs for their 2011 budget, including around 6,400 teaching positions. Cuts of this magnitude have not been seen since the 1970′s, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg is chalking it up to what he calls “Albany’s irresponsibility.” “Unless the Legislature acts, New York City residents will pay the price [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 22, 2010
Faced with financial woes, the New Jersey prison system plans to double-bunk and house fewer inmates in order to shave costs. There will be a yet unspecified number of staff reductions as well. The department is faced with $74 million in budget cuts, and will be looking to rely more on volunteers to educate and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Bates Technical College in Tacoma, Washington is laying off some 25 staff members due to budget cuts. A total of 45 faculty members and support staff were issued reduction-in-force notices according to spokeswoman Edie Jeffers. She went on to explain that although the college expects to lay off 25 employees, the additional notices were given [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 16, 2010
Boston’s House Ways and Means Committee’s budget proposal details $750 million in cuts for the next fiscal year, threatening 1,500 government jobs and hit higher education with a $132 million reduction in funding. The proposal would cut municipal aid by $234 million, MassHealth benefits, which includes dental coverage, to save $110 million. The bill includes [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 13, 2010
More than 100 School District teachers, parents, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and others joined in a protest Monday night over the job cuts put forth in Rochester, New York’s proposed $694.5 million budget. “Why would you cut 165 jobs from support services and put 88 people out of work?” asked sentry Joe DiPaolo of School [...]
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