Sentences with phrase «laid off a year»

Nicole Cuffee was laid off a year ago and became one of those food stamp users.

Failure to find private sector work for 40,000 state workers laid off each year would spell electoral disaster for Cameron and Osborne.

Thankfully, the federal government will, in most cases, pay 65 percent of your COBRA bill for nine months if youre laid off this year.

All people can do is harp on The b N, meanwhile Anyone ever take notice that Microsoft is written on bad code, and charity on the backs of americans that were laid off years ago so that gates could fund his «charity» endevours?

My husband had been laid off the year before I started writing and still hasn't found a full - time job.

When the senior director, in his 40s, was laid off a year ago, it was difficult to look back on his long tenure and succinctly sum up his experience.

Whether you've chosen to dedicate years of your life to taking care of your home, or were laid off years ago during the financial crisis, you may now have a gap in your work history that you're concerned could be frowned upon by employers.

Not exact matches

David Vieau, A123 Systems president & CEO, discusses the tough year for his company, and how he plans to rebuild after laying off 125 workers from a Michigan plant.

The maker of Angry Birds, a mobile game that was a sensation four years ago — announced it's laying off 110 jobs, or 14 % of its staff.

The Democratic candidate for president also attacked the company for last year laying off 250 technology workers after requiring some of them to train their replacements: foreign employees hired on temporary H - 1B visas for highly skilled technical workers through an Indian outsourcing firm.

(The IT workers it laid off last year would no doubt disagree).

And, over the past two years, the company has laid off about 12 % of its workforce, or 12,500 employees, many of whom joined Shell figuring they'd have a job for life.

A year later, Gene was laid off again.

The square was declared off limits to demonstrations for a third year running and police blocked points of entry, allowing only small groups of labor union representatives to lay wreaths at a monument there.

Four years later, I got a chance for a do - over when I was laid off from my job when I was nine weeks pregnant with my son Julian.

The extra hiring is a nice contrast for Macy's which this year has closed some 68 stores and laid off hundreds of workers as it looks to cull weak stores.

Microsoft, for one, opened a new studio last year that is devoted to creating Kinect games, while other, smaller game companies quickly moved to try and snap up employees laid off by Radical.

Early this year it announced it was short on cash, and in early July laid off 40 % of its staff and closed two offices.

«When inDinero ran out of funding and I had to lay off our staff several years ago, I learned to never read or believe your own headlines, good or bad.

As University of California Davis economist Ann Huff Stevens asserts in her contribution to the 2008 book Laid Off, Laid Low, «In recent years, a conventional wisdom has emerged, suggesting the extent to which U.S. workers and employers form long term relationships has deteriorated.»

After eight years of being a bond trader, including a stint at Fidelity, he was laid off in December 2008.

Earlier this year, Zynga announced it would lay off 18 percent of its global workforce.

HP CFO Catherine Lesjak said that over 800 people left the company in the second quarter, and that roughly 1,200 workers have been laid off since the beginning of the year.

Were you laid off over the past couple of years and sick of the job - hunting circus?

Hayden, who calls himself «a great salesman,» was working at Kellogg's until he was laid off eight years ago.

Her agency already laid off a dozen employees this year, raised entry prices and discontinued some free Sundays at Santa Fe museums as attendance numbers dipped.

The news comes nearly two months after the hospital operator said it would lay off about 1,300 employees in order to save $ 150 million next year.

Tiburon, a $ 48 - million provider of public - safety systems and services, laid off 80 of its 320 employees last year.

Teach Away made headlines in Houston that year when, soon after news broke that the state would lay off hundreds of teachers in the region, the company announced it would hire 1,000 teachers to be deployed in Abu Dhabi.

The company came under fire last year after it announced it was laying off more than one - thousand people, including 440 in Saskatchewan.

As you tick off your to - do list before the year ends, it pays off to start laying the groundwork for the new year.

Americans were stunned last year by news that Disney Corp. had laid off dozens of its American IT staff, and replaced them with foreign workers on the H - 1B work visa.

I myself was selling on ebay last year, to make cash after being laid - off from my high - profile fashion job, when I stumbled upon this concept.

After flourishing in a regulatory gray area, how is it now that Holmes has been banned from running a laboratory for two years, the company's $ 9 billion valuation has plummeted to $ 800 million, and today it laid off an additional 155 workers?

I have been planning this venture for some years, and due to just recently being laid off, I now have the time to dedicate 100 % to this Start Up Business.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Studies have shown that employees who are 50 years of age and older are not only more likely to be laid off during tough economic times, but they're also known to have longer periods of unemployment before being able to re-enter the workforce.

That's particularly true for older workers who might be laid off in their peak earning years, when they had been counting on catching up on retirement savings.

«I would like a supervisory position — I've been a machinist for 35 years and was recently laid off — but [the SolarCity rep] said if I want a job, it would be entry level, paying around $ 15 an hour.»

Use the cards, pay them off and take advantage of your rewards in the 1st year as offered and then lay off them.

She was laid off from her paralegal job, which she had held for five years, in January 2012.

Sturm Ruger, another public company, cut its production levels by 24 percent last year and also laid off 28 percent of its employees, according to Wedbush analysts.

Passive Income Pursuit -[January / 2013]- Subscribe to RSS feed After getting laid off, I questioned the traditional retirement where you slave away for years and hopefully save enough to live on in retirement.

Numbers may decrease over the next few years though, particularly in Alberta as energy firms continue to lay off staff because of the 2014 oil price decline.

When rumours of re-orgs and laid offs surfaced in 2010, we cut 15K of expenses and after several years increased savings rate to 85 %.

Like Dyky, Steve Secleter, retired from 31 years at a utility company, was laid off from a steel mill in the 1980s.

Within 12 years, that number more than doubled: In 2014, for every person laid off from a company with employee stock ownership, 7.3 employees were laid off from conventionally owned businesses.

Every four years, the General Social Survey (GSS)-- often regarded as the single best source for sociological and attitudinal trend data in the United States — asks respondents if they were laid off in the previous year.

There's no way to track how many workers lost their jobs as a result, but in recent years, factories in Europe and Mexico laid off thousands of steelworkers.

(Reuters)- Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) said on Thursday it would lay off about 8 percent of its employees as the drugmaker, which has suffered setbacks over the past year in the development of two potential blockbuster drugs, works to cut costs.