Screwed: 5,000 at Mahindra Satyam

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Today’s Total: 5,940

Mahindra Satyam may lay off 5,000 benchers after assuring that there would be no more layoffs…CNH announces plans to lay off 300 staff members… Georgia-Pacific will lay off 300 workers… International Paper in Oregon lays off 230 workers… Quest plans to lay off 60 staffers in its Wallingford, Conn., testing facility… Workforce Solutions will lay off 50 employees…

Screwed: 100 at NewPage

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Today’s Total: 211

Wisconsin’s NewPage paper mill is laying off up to 100 workers… Legal service company WilmerHale has laid off 57 staff members across 4 offices yesterday… 50 employees are losing their jobs in Lockheed Martin‘s northeastern Pennsylvania plant… Conde Nast layoffs continue as 4 staffers are laid off at GQ magazine… Sony has allegedly cut half the workforce at Colorado-based Idol Minds game developer… Governer Rendell predicts more Pennsylvania layoffs but is holding off on details for about another month… Fresno City faces major budget deficit next year and layoffs may be on the horizon.

Screwed: 5,000 at Mahindra Satyam

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Today’s Total: 13, 515

Mahindra Satyam has sent layoff notifications to 5,000 employees in India… German mail-order giant Quelle plans the layoffs of 4,000 employees by November after declaring bankruptcy… Sallie Mae anticipates trimming at least 2,000 staffers… Iowa will hand out pink slips to 800 state workers due to a 10% budget cut… The state of Massachusetts announced its final layoff number: 726 employees have lost their jobs… Cook County Health and Hospital Systems of Chicago will lose 335 employees after a $60 million budget cut… Avis Budget Group Inc. is slated to lay off 220 Canadian employees… Bristol-Meyers Squibb announced the layoffs of 113 workers from its facility in Evansville, Ind… Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources plans to cut 100 workers in the coming weeks… Sacramento County’s Child Protective Services laid off 76 staff members in response to a budget deficit… 74 Shuttle America employees will lose their jobs by the end of the month…

Screwed: 3,000 at Sun Microsystems

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Today’s Total: 3,174

Sun Microsystems will likely lay off 3,000 employees in the interim of its acquisition by Oracle… The New York Times plans to cut 100 newsroom jobs by the end of the year… Kuhn North America is laying off 40 employees in its second round of layoffs this year… Montgomery County Administrator Deborah Feldman proposes 30 layoffs in the county commission departments… Hubbard City lays off 4 police dispatchers… California-based Slipgate Ironworks is laying off an undeclared number of employees…

Screwed: 21,773 at AvtoVAZ

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Today’s Total: 26,969

Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ is set to eliminate up to 21,773 workers through the end of this year… The Chicago Transit Authority will trim its staff by 2,000 workers over the next two months… Massachusetts could lose up to 2,000 state workers after massive budget cuts… Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection anticipates the layoffs of 400 employees in response to state budget cuts… Arizona’s Department of Public Safety could lay off up to 250 staff members if the state budget crisis persists… BAE Systems will eliminate 130 workers from its West Manchester, Penn. facility… Caesars Windsor Casino of Ontario, Canada laid off 120 employees on Monday… The New York Times plans to hand out 100 pink slips to newsroom employees by the end of the year… More than 100 state parks employees in Missouri are set to be laid off due to declining sales tax revenues…

Screwed: 550 at Sanmina-SCI

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Today’s Total: 1,836

Some good news: Volkswagen taking applications for 1200 jobs…

And the bad: Sanmina-SCI plans to lay off 550 employees in Hungary… Alstom announces plans to lay off 502 employees… Verizon lays off 266 workers… GM anticipates 300 layoffs in Mexico… Smith Medical PM Inc. plans to lay off 100 employees… Capital Hill Publications lays off 44 staff members… Mueller Industries cuts 37 workers…

Screwed: Possible 2,000 at AOL

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Today’s Total: 3,196

AOL may have to eliminate up to 2,000 employees after Alix Partners, a consulting firm, advises on how to save $300 million per year… Iowa’s Department of Human Services anticipates laying off up to 400 workers… The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation will be downsizing by 200 employees in the next nine months… Up to 200 employees, mostly in law enforcement and corrections, will be laid off in Spokane County, Wa… Syracuse County, N.Y. laid off 135 staffers in order to close a budget deficit for 2010… Coca Cola HBC Ireland is set to lay off 130 workers… As part of “organizational fine-tuning,” eBay will lay off fewer than 60 employees… McCann Erikson San Francisco handed out 40 layoff notices… Franciscan Skemp Healthcare cut 25 employees in Wisconsin in response to declining numbers of patients… At least 6 staff members have been laid off from Vogue as the magazine tries to meet a 25% budget cut…

Screwed: 800 at Clariant

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Today’s Total: 1,837

Clariant is set to reduce its workforce by 800 in Switzerland… Moog Aircraft Group handed out 220 layoff notices to workers in Utah… Aramark is set to cut 163 employees in Huntsville, Ala… 130 at Boeing received layoff notices on Friday… Albany’s preliminary budget plan for 2010 calls for the layoffs of 109 county employees… Team Broadcast Services is set to eliminate 96 workers by the end of November… Lockheed Martin will lose 65 workers next month… Baker Hughes will eliminate 62 positions from its Houston, Texas office… Yakima County, Wash. anticipates cutting 60 workers to help close a budget gap… Volvo’s factory in Pulaski County, Va will cut 50 jobs… University of Toledo Medical Center announced the layoffs of 50 employees… Centenary College has cut 25 staff members in an effort to balance the school’s budget… Condé Nast layoffs continued with the company’s announcement that Glamour laid off 7 staff members from the sales side… Current Media, founded by former Vice President Al Gore, anticipates laying off more local employees although details are not yet available… ZillionTV reportedly laid off one third of its staff in a restructuring effort…

Screwed: 700 at Potash Corporation

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Today’s Total: 1,018

The Potash Corporation has laid off 700 mine workers at its Lanigan and Rocanville mines… The 2010 Albany County budget includes 109 layoffs, most from the county nursing home… Aviation firm AAR Aircraft Services is laying off 106 employees this December… High-performance-audio maker, Stillwater Designs, is laying off 50 employees by the end of the month… Shaba Games has laid off 30 employees, leaving only 50 percent of its former workforce still employed… Conde Nast has laid off 15 employees from its digital unit… LPGA headquarters announced 8 staff layoffs, including the elimination of the Deputy Commissioner position.

Screwed: 905 at Dell

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Today’s Total: 2,176

Dell has announced plans to shut down a factory in Winston-Salem, N.C. and trim its workforce by 905… Irish airline Aer Lingus is expected to cut up to 650 workers… RedCats USA will lay off 490 employees by the end of the year as it closes a call center in Universal City, Texas… Thermo Fisher Scientific will shed 350 jobs in Dubuqe, Iowa by the year’s end… Canron Western will institute “temporary” layoffs for 106 employees in its Northeast Portland, Ore. location… Ferguson Enterprises will cut its workforce by 94… Tecnotree Telecommunications will lay off 80 Irish workers in response to dropping demand for its products and services… The city of Tracy, Calif. is set to reduce its workforce by 70 to compensate for a budget deficit… The police department of East Cleveland, Ohio will hand out 19 layoff notices in response to a budget deficit… Condé Nast continues to shed workers as Brides eliminated 12 staffers yesterday… Forbes is planning a third set of layoffs for this year, although details are not yet available… eBay anticipates “small” scale layoffs but specific numbers have yet to be determined… GM will institute more layoffs as part of its restructuring plan after declaring bankruptcy…