Staff Cuts

Mike: Hello to all and thanks for visiting. The Layoff List this Tuesday. A busy Tuesday afternoon for layoffs and economic reports. – Mike: While the following story (Nurse called out of surgery and laid off) is one of those sensational stories that the news media loves to blast, it is amazing that the person […]

Continue reading about April 14 – BFGoodrich closing plant that employs 1,000 – Qantas Air to cut 1750 – 500 to go: Discover Financial – Hallmark sends bad news to 550-750 – Deere to chop 200 more

Mike: Thanks for visiting The Layoff List on this Easter weekend. The post will be rather short, since there is little in the way of layoff news and economic reports this day. Let me start with some news from Thursday (revised for clarity from an earlier post): Yesterday brought some slight improvement to the Jobless […]

Continue reading about pril 10, 11, 12 – Johnson and Johnson cutting 900 – Beneteau confirms 600 job cuts – Viking Yacht sinks jobs of 600 – UKs BT to slash another 10,000

Mike: Today’s Jobless Claims number came in at 654,000, which was still in recession territory, but an improvement nonetheless. According to The Associated Press: New jobless claims fall more than expected to 654K.to a seasonally adjusted 654,000, down from a revised 674,000 the previous week. Analysts expected claims to drop to 660,000. A stabilizing job […]

Continue reading about April 9 – Jobless claims fall to 654,000 – Continuing jobless claims at record 5.84 million – Lloyds to cut 25,000? – LyondellBasell chops 3000 jobs – Country Coach lays off 460 – 3M offers 3,600 early retirement