A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 4,145
Xerox is planning 2,500 worldwide job cuts this year… Beginning Feb.5, 700 workers in Wayne County, MI will be given furlough every Friday… Another 585 layoffs lie in the future of the Lloyds Banking Group… Nuclear Fuel Services in Erwin, TN will be temporarily laying off 150 employees… In preparation for budget cuts, the Portland School District considers serving approximately 100 teachers with layoff notices… 62 ITT Communications Systems workers face unemployment in Fort Wayne… The town of Harrison, NJ is laying off 48 workers, both full-time and part-time.
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We heard 500 in Webster. But what you never hear is that they have been laying off all year a few here and there.
i was one of these 2500 laid off. been on unemployment for almost a year now. still unemployed, so yeah…screwed.