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Screwed: 1,700 at Air France-KLM

A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.

Today’s Total: 4,403

Air France-KLM anticipates the “voluntary departure” of 1,700 employees after recording losses in the second quarter… Verizon will reduce its workforce by 1,000 people in D.C., Virginia and Maryland before the end of the year… Aetna is set to hand out 625 pink slips… Alcoa Howmet eliminated 250 positions at its plant in Hampton, Va… The Hennepin County Medical Center in Minnesota closed two clinics and laid off 150 workers… Arizona’s Department of Transportation announced Wednesday their intent to lay off 115 workers in response to budget cuts… Invista will reduce its workforce by 110 at its plant in Waynesboro, Va… San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency filed notice of its plans to cut 110 employees in order to compensate for a projected budget shortfall… BusinessWeek announced the demise of 100 of its staffers as its operations move over to Bloomberg… Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved budget cuts of $360 million and the layoffs of 70 workers… Guardian Automotive Products Inc. of Upper Sandusky, Ohio laid off 59 employees due to a “serious downturn in business”… The Associated Press cut 57 additional workers from its ranks on Tuesday… Wrigley will trim 37 people from its information technology department in a second round of layoffs since its acquisition by Mars Inc. last year… Clark County, Ky. will cut 20 jobs by the end of the year… Seattle’s zoo contemplates layoffs as a way of trimming $700,000 from their annual budget.

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