Screwed: Possible 4,500 in Jackson Health System

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

Today’s Total: 5,076

The Jackson Health System in Florida is considering cutting a whopping 4,500 jobs and two hospitals to close its budget gap…In San Francisco, bio-tech company Exelixis Inc will cut 270 jobs, currently 40 percent of their workforce…In Tennessee, Ford Motor Credit Co. plans to lay off 200 employees by the end of the month…General Dynamics Robotics Systems handed pink slips to 90 employees yesterday, whose last day will be on May 6…

Recession Briefing: Bull Market Turns One Year Old

What you need to know today to survive and thrive in the recession.

On Wednesday investors will celebrate the first birthday of the current bull market — the one born a day after stocks hit rock bottom on March 9, 2009, ending the second-worst stock market meltdown in history. (USA Today)

The percentage of workers who said they have less than $10,000 in savings grew to 43% in 2010, from 39% in 2009, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s annual Retirement Confidence Survey. (CNN/Money)

Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest period of high joblessness in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying that the Depression-era program created as a temporary bridge for laid-off workers is turning into an expensive entitlement. (Washington Post)…

Screwed: 500 at Vodafone

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

Today’s Total: 887

Vodafone will make 500 job cuts throughout the UK as efforts to cut £1 billion in company costs…In LA County, 300 Los Angeles Supreme Court employees will be handed notices by March 16 about subsequent unemployment on April 1st…In South Carolina, the Union County School District plan to layoff 30 employees by next year…In California, the Calaveras Unified School District will hand out pink slips to 24 teachers by March 15…In other school layoffs news, the Dinwiddie School Board in Virginia decided on a budget cut yesterday, resulting 23 layoffs, including 10 teaching positions…In Texas, Sigma-Herron laid off 10 workers in a pharmaceutical plant this morning.

Screwed: Possible 5,000 in Kansas

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

Today’s Total: 7,073

The Kansas school system is in danger of a possible 5,000 job cuts next year if school funding fails to suffice… Shaw’s grocery store chain is closing its Connecticut locations, laying off 967 workers in the process… Yonkers, N.Y., mayor has announced that next year’s budget may result in either 900 employee layoffs or a 35 percent tax increase… 150 Cadbury workers may be facing layoffs as Kraft restructures the confection maker… Comache County Memorial Hospital in Lawton, Okla. has terminated 56 jobs, including the chief operating officer… Online entertainment company, Slide, is ceasing production on two of its games, laying off up to 10 percent of its workforce in the process…

Screwed: 100 at BAE Systems

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

Today’s Total: 293

BAE Systems plans to layoff 100 workers in Ohio after losing contract deals… In Arkansas, Commercial Metals Co are cutting up to 60 jobs by April 29… Eastern Maine Medical Center plan to lay off about 50 employees by March 19… Meanwhile, Kingsburg District Hospital in California announced plans to cut a nursing unit and lay off 50 employees… In New Jersey, South Orange Maplewood School District will be laying off 29 employees in the coming months… In Morristown, 4 city employees were laid off yesterday…

Screwed: 520 in Phoenix

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

Today’s Total: 1,233

A new budget for Phoenix, Ariz. has resulted in 520 job cuts… If South Carolina state legislature passes a $5.1 billion budget plan, the Department of Juvenile Justice could suffer 295 contract employee layoffs… 200 jobs will be terminated as New Jersey Transit faces an emergency spending freeze… Cummins Inc. is laying off 194 workers from the Columbus Midrange Engine Plant… Lockheed Martin Corp. has laid off 16 employees at its Orlando, Fla. Location… New York City controller John Liu has announced that 8 employees have “separated” from his office…

Screwed: Possible 4,000 in LA

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

Today’s Total: 5,214

Due to the devastating budget of Los Angeles, as many as 20 percent of all public library staff will be laid off, as well as 15 percent of the police force, culminating in possible layoffs of 4,000 city employees… In Toronto, Aveos Fleet Performance Inc will be laying off 1,000 airline machinists in the next few months… Chicago Transit Authority handed out pink slips to 99 employees over the weekend, marking the last batch of 1,067 CTA employees without jobs… In California, Salinas City may lay off 40 city employees as part of a proposed balanced-budget plan… In Ottawa, Caesars Windsor plans on cutting 45 jobs… In Nevada, Carson City may face a job cut of 30 employees due to a budget deficit…

Screwed: Possible 23,000 at NASA

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

Today’s Total: 23,816

Obama’s proposed budget for NASA may cost as many as 23,000 jobs, from 9,000 “direct” space jobs and 14,000″indirect” hotel and restaurant positions…IBM Australia’s decision to outsource to India and China may cause 800 local jobs…In California, Menlo Park City School District will lay off 8 teachers in the process of reducing funding for art, physical education, and Spanish programs…In Virginia, Monticello plans on cutting city funding for its police force today and phasing out the department entirely by July 1, and laying off 8 police officers in the process…ABC News will be cutting 20 percent of their news staff due to the impact of new technologies in the industry…

Screwed: 1,600 at Davie Yards

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

Today’s Total: 2,354

Davie Yards Inc., a Canadian shipbuilder, is planning 1,600 employee layoffs to begin on Monday while it files for creditor protection… Chicago Public Schools will be laying off 500 employees by mid-March… Las Vegas faces 171 city layoffs by July 1 unless labor unions agree to concessions… In another round of layoffs, Sunrise Senior Living Inc. will terminate 30 jobs this year…

Screwed: 52 at Pfizer

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Today’s Total:

In New York, Pfizer announced yesterday a job cut of 52 employees by April 21…The Oregonian gave pink slips to 37 workers yesterday, primarily from the news department…At the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, all 35 teachers may face unemployment for not meeting qualifications required by federal law, and the state has asked the school to submit a new staffing plan by June 1…In Wildwood, NJ, 30 city employees received layoff notices yesterday…Meanwhile, in Ithica, NY, Steuben Glass will layoff an undetermined number of employees by this summer as part of their restructuring plan.