In terms of layoffs, the hardest hit sectors are the auto industry and the high tech sector. |
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Vast layoffs, pay cuts and a floundering economy have been difficult factors for galleries and publishers to deal with. |
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During his run, he experienced one firing, two resignations, two contract nonrenewals, and three layoffs. |
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During busy season, overtime is a given and layoffs during slow times may frustrate the ability to recruit and retain skilled employees. |
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The depression forced most firms to resort to repeated rounds of employee layoffs, wage cuts, and work speedups. |
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The workers believe that complete privatisation of the bank will lead to mass layoffs. |
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With unemployment at its highest point in nearly a decade, workers lucky enough to avoid layoffs have had little opportunity to jump ship. |
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Reform is a polite euphemism for forcing banks to close out bad loans, enforce bankruptcy, and require layoffs of excess workers. |
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Then, earlier this month, employee paychecks were delayed after a financial rejiggering and a wave of staff layoffs. |
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Along with bolstering savings, workers are looking to microbusinesses as a hedge against the risk of layoffs or pay cuts. |
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The contract prohibits layoffs unless prompted by events beyond the company's control. |
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The unions protested against wage cuts and layoffs for public sector workers. |
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And layoffs in the newsroom and shrinking budgets leave few resources available for enterprise reporting. |
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The most recent layoffs were made after the company missed its target of selling its software to 100 top-tier banks. |
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More layoffs may be in store, he said, and those workers unable to stomach additional givebacks should look for new jobs. |
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That pace may well be healthy enough to offset the contractionary forces of the tech downturn, falling exports, and rising layoffs. |
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Instead, as Samuelson notes, much of the increase was due to layoffs, bankruptcies and cutbacks. |
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The fiscal cliff could mean cutbacks and layoffs in fields like medical research. |
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Tucker found that when confronted with patent trolls, start-ups often had to resort to layoffs or abandon projects. |
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Workers have suffered massive layoffs during the transition to a market economy. |
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While he says there have been few layoffs at his firm, he's reducing head count through attrition. |
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The fall in demand leads to layoffs and rationalization, as do mergers and takeovers, and to a new culture and the axing of jobs. |
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Others announced layoffs and cutbacks and every manner of cancer and blight. |
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Union members are demanding shorter working hours and the government's retraction of its plan to privatize the public firms, which they fear will lead to massive layoffs. |
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The belt tightening has started and it is being practiced with no overtime coupled with layoffs, leaving skeleton crews. |
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Even Americans who have jobs are pinching pennies amid the constant news of cutbacks and layoffs. |
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Daily announcements of closures and layoffs from across the country have played havoc with workers, families and communities. |
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New permanent layoffs are happening every month in the industrial manufacturing sector in Hamilton and there is no end in sight. |
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However, that is not the final word on the number of layoffs eventually averted by the work-sharing program. |
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The owner says he has avoided layoffs, but he's losing sleep. |
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The expert believes that the market has been affected by the mass layoffs of staff at the Urals enterprises and the universal neurosis. |
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From these numbers we can infer the theory predicting that offshoring won't create massive layoffs is confirmed by the facts. |
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This caused production to dwindle until it halted entirely, forcing 5,000 workers into layoffs or early retirement. |
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In April, coal miners in Liaoning province repeatedly blockaded railway lines to protest layoffs. |
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As a result shipyards are running out of work and a number of bankruptcies and layoffs, mainly in Europe, have already occurred. |
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Every day, companies announce cutbacks in production, layoffs of workers or even complete closure. |
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Similarly, for layoffs and recalls, seniority would govern only if the most senior employee was qualified to perform the available work. |
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Of these, 100 are due to nonrenewal of contract employees, 158 are due to layoffs of permanent employees, and 19 are vacant jobs being abolished. |
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Every day, every week that goes by brings new human tragedies, new closings and new layoffs. |
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First of all, in the forestry industry, the layoffs took place in the two or three years prior to the final closings. |
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One of the recurring problems is the lack of will to support older workers who are forced out of the labour force because of massive layoffs. |
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The number suggests strong hiring activity, the AP reports: Weekly applications are a proxy for layoffs. |
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In addition, while the respondent claimed that the complainant was let go on the basis of seniority, seniority played no role in other layoffs. |
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The threat of plant closures and layoffs also served as a means of enforcing labor discipline among the workers. |
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Canadian Blood Services plans to move to this new operating model gradually with no involuntary layoffs of nurses. |
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Recent layoffs in the high-tech sector are consistent with this more conservative view. |
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This cost is compared to the estimated cost of the layoffs that would have occurred if there were no Work Sharing program. |
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More closures and layoffs have been announced since that report was released. |
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Doyle, officially a contractor, said he was told that he was being let go as part of a program of layoffs at the New Mexico lab. |
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With a spate of layoffs kicking in, worrying about your 401 starts to look like a high-class problem. |
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The company said some of the cost-cutting moves involved layoffs. |
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The layoffs affected 14 employees locally and 11 in branch offices. |
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When consumers fail in large numbers, companies fail as well, triggering layoffs and more suffering. |
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Older or mature workers who are unemployed as a result of downsizing, layoffs or plant closures are particularly disadvantaged, as many services and programs are not tailored to their needs to retool or reskill. |
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Many feel that employees, through layoffs, are paying the price for mistakes made by management and that management is not accountable for the consequences of its decisions. |
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The plan included layoffs in some departments and the demoting of six Police Department employees. |
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The company hopes the layoffs will be for only two months. |
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That group deals with the day-to-day affairs of the Guild in your workplace, including resolving disputes with local management, grievances, and dealing with layoffs. |
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Access to the Fund is meant to be permitted when a given Member State reports 1Â 000 layoffs from its SMEs over a period of nine months, whereas the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs had demanded a period of twelve. |
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Wallace said the department doesn't expect the layoffs, demotions and transfers to affect service, but Bader disputed that claim. |
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Work-Sharing is an adjustment program to help employers and employees avoid temporary layoffs when there is a reduction in the normal level of business activity beyond the control of the employer. |
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The layoffs would also necessitate demotions to backfill lower-level positions that become vacant in the process. |
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Reduction in precious metals chemical orders for decorative purposes necessitated reduced working hours in some European subsidiaries as well as a number of permanent layoffs. |
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We decided to defer negotiations, which were supposed to begin last year, due to the difficult economic climate and the significant number of layoffs at the time. |
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In the March 2009 interview, Gallup asked respondents whether their organization had experienced layoffs or had downsized. |
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Companies with a larger proportion of workers at or near the early retirement line would face higher pension costs during layoffs than organizations with a younger demographic profile. |
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Of Caterpillar's 22,000 layoffs, at least 1,500 are in greater Peoria. |
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The number of economic layoffs rose in 2008, due to significant reorganizations which took place at Activision Blizzard, Universal Music Group and Gabon Telecom, a subsidiary of Maroc Telecom. |
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Big exporters, like Hitachi and Toshiba, are announcing huge layoffs. |
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Steel announced an undisclosed number of layoffs affecting employees worldwide. |
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Whatever the outcome of these latest corporate maneuvers, we just bargained a new contract in Sudbury that guarantees no layoffs for workers if Inco gets taken over or if it buys Falconbridge. |
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I felt it was my obligation as an employer to provide a platform whereby they had something to fall back on in case there were some difficult times such as layoffs, job losses, et cetera. |
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The company weathered the storm without layoffs, partly by reassigning redundant production workers to find ways to cut costs, improve quality and streamline production. |
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It is hard to keep up with the mill closures and layoffs. |
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The people who agree with Michelin should have the courage to say so, and those who do not agree with Michelin and with the layoffs should be able to say so, but let us not beat about the bush for hours on end. |
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In Windsor, the participants we talked to were concerned about the layoffs in the auto industry and the spiraling effect that would have on local businesses. |
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Stock markets crash, businesses go bankrupt, and 9-to-5s can disappear from layoffs and downsizing. |
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Older Duppies who've lived through previous layoffs seem prepared for the emotional and financial shifts that a protracted job loss can bring. |
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After the layoffs, he gained a reputation as a hatchet man and ended up eating lunches alone. |
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In August 2006 it announced that all the required job cuts had been achieved through voluntary layoffs. |
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From the 1970s on, the steel industry contracted, with works at Ebbw Vale, Shotton and East Moors in Cardiff closing and layoffs elsewhere. |
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But now, when business is verrry slow and the possibility of layoffs icily real, looking busy is no joke. |
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This section provides an in-depth analysis of the six major reasons for job separation: layoffs, return to school, injury or illness, quits, dismissals, and pregnancy or parental reasons. |
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The evidence regarding potential layoffs arising from the loss of the contracts and the ripple effect on Promaxis' ability to serve its clients was speculative. |
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According to the Tennessee Daily Times, the layoffs affect the can sheet operations in the Rigid Packaging Division. |
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As more firms fold their tents or navigate layoffs, caution and honest conservatism are now more important than ever. |
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The employer argued that the change in the funding formula left it with little choice: the layoffs were the most sensible and least painful response open to it, and far preferable to shutting down one of the homes altogether. |
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Because the three companies' activities complement each other almost flawlessly, no significant job layoffs will result from the integration process. |
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The Russian confectionery market is unfazed by economic shocks. 2009 proved that there is a reliable demand from all segments of the population for sweets, even during a time of massive layoffs and delays in salary payments. |
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In 1998, a walkout against threatened layoffs by several thousand workers at a General Motors stamping plant in Flint, Michigan soon brought to a halt practically the entire GM empire in the United States, Canada and Mexico. |
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There was nothing in the existing scientific literature that would suggest that the rationale for averting layoffs is any less relevant today than it was at the program's inception. |
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He also is inheriting a shrinking staff hurt by layoffs and furloughs. |
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It provides estimates of program participation, the extent of the work reduction, the monetary benefits of Work Sharing for employees and the extent to which Work Sharing is successful in averting layoffs. |
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It is often accomplished by literally locking employees out of the workplace, but it can also be achieved through work stoppage, layoffs, or the hiring of nonunion replacement workers. |
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In particular, the members of CAW Brampton chapter Local 1285 have come together because they have been impacted by the substantial number of layoffs, foreclosures and companies that have closed. |
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The sectors making a mere seven to eight per cent profits per annum are implacably restructured by means of reducing wages and, more especially, massive layoffs. |
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Cost-saving measures included the accelerated layoff of seasonal employees, reduced work hours and layoffs and as well, the deferral of capital and non-essential spending, training and hiring. |
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Among those were layoffs that resulted in the severance payment. |
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Houghton then met with employees at the Footscray, Australia headquarters on July 18, 2013 to announce a restructuring process that would result in staff layoffs. |
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The Swedish company says the layoffs reflect expectations for an industrywide decline in demand for heavy-duty trucks equipped with new anti-pollution technology. |
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More than one-third of executives recently surveyed said the most important benefit of using interim workers is to help avoid overstaffing followed by layoffs. |
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And second, under the new law, notice is required for mass layoffs of 50 employees within a 30-day period even if the layoff does not involve one-third of the workforce. |
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The department also extended the notice requirement for temporary layoffs by an Illinois state agency from 10 to 30 working days in advance of the effective layoff date. |
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Not incidentally, the market slump was followed by widespread layoffs. |
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Poor revenue figures have stoked concerns about possible layoffs. |
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