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(New York Times) — Since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced last month that the city would eliminate 10,000 jobs, workers have been preparing for details on where those cuts would be made. At the Finance Department, layoffs appear to be falling disproportionately on minority groups and people with disabilities, according to one union representing city workers. […]
(Crain’s) — The city’s paratransit bus schedules are being disrupted with the closing of two companies that provide transportation for disabled passengers. Starting this month and continuing through year’s end, Maspeth, Queens-based Atlantic Paratrans of NYC Inc. will steadily lay off all of its 610 employees, and Progress Transit Inc. of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, will […]
(AP) – New York Gov. David Paterson in a memo to commissioners is ordering that 2,000 state jobs be cut through layoffs and attrition by Dec. 31. Mr. Paterson has warned for months that deficits continue to mount in the state and layoffs would be likely by the end of the calendar year. His memo […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayor Daley said Wednesday he would consolidate six city departments — and eliminate jobs — to chip away at the city’s record $654.7 million shortfall without a pre-election tax hike. The changes, effective Jan. 1, would merge the Mayor’s Office of Special Events and the Department of Culture Affairs. The Departments […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Planned job cuts announced by Illinois-based employers fell more than five-fold over the month in August, according to the latest report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Employers announced plans to cut 448 jobs, down from 2,360 in July and from 2,878 in August 2009, the Chicago-based outplacement firm said today. Nationally, […]
Laid-off executives really should wish they were in Dixie. Manpower (NYSE: MAN) unit Right Management reported Monday some 76 percent laid-off executives in the South find a new position at the same or higher level as the one they previously held, compared with a 72 percent national average. The compensation was comparable to that in their […]
(AJC) — Director of transit-oriented real estate development, who made $103,000 a year: Cut. Landscape architect, $80,000: Cut. Employee relations manager, a catch-all job including oversight of health fairs, weight-loss challenges, team-building, $90,000: Cut. These are among the first cuts MARTA made as it planned to eliminate 734 positions and lay off more than 300 employees, […]
(Chicago Tribune) — A labor union on Wednesday officially brought an end to a nearly 3-week-long strike that halted hundreds of construction projects throughout the region. The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 ratified an agreement that was tentatively struck late Monday between the unions and an association of road contractors that allows work to […]