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layofflist on May 25th, 2009

Good day to all and thank you for visiting The Layoff List this Memorial Day.  In the US, Memorial Day is a day to honor those who have given their lives in service to their country. I hope we can all in some way pay tribute to those who have sacrificed so much for so […]

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Mike: Due to a problem with my page layout, the “Previous entries” link is at the top of page 1 and not at the bottom where it belongs. I hope to fix that soon, but I need to find someone that’s wiser to this than I am. Sorry for the inconvenience.  Due to the holiday […]

Continue reading about May 22, 23, 24 – LA schools avert 3,700 layoffs with federal funds – Opel to cut about 10,000 “only” – Banks could make out like bandits (again) – Filene’s Basement may cut 1600 – GM planning to cut at least 4400 more North America salaried jobs? – Feds: $50 million for green job retraining

Mike:  Today proved to be a lighter day for layoff announcements than we’ve become used to of late. No massive job cuts, but still plenty of smaller cuts that add up. My guess of 651,000 layoffs was high, but let’s see what the revised number is next week to see if it is again raised, […]

Continue reading about May 21 – Jobless claims drop by 12,000 to 631,000 – Continuing claims at record 6.66 million – Axcelis Technologies cuts 235 – Autodesk plans to cut 430 – KeyCorp eliminating more than 300