Sentences with phrase «laid off last»

My husband was laid off last month, but of course, we are like many looking again for a job, and in the big picture, nothing to whine about, considering... The good news, is that two of our children and their families wil be «home» with us for Christmas, and I am so thankful for that.

As a 61 - year - old female who was laid off last fall, I realize my job prospects are limited.

I was laid off last April after working for the same company for 22 years.

For example, Ms. Bauer, an employee of Jayco was laid off last year and got behind on her credit cards.

I was laid off last week, and have pretty much committed myself to starting a new business.

Thirty - eight full - time county animal services employees were laid off last week.

I know her story is not the only one — her sister has a similar story, has her master's, is not in as much rating, but she was laid off last year from her $ 35,000 a year job and has now just started a new job making $ 37,000 a year.

Then they found a negotiator and she was supposed to get laid off last week.

«I've always wanted to get a Ph.D.,» says Morales, who grew up in a Hispanic farming community outside Tucson and who is working 30 hours a week to help fill the gap left when his father was laid off last summer from his job at a copper mine.

Remington Arms has recalled most workers laid off last August and November at its upstate New York plant.

Unite Here Local I, the union representing the lunch workers, said the 200 cuts come in addition to the 163 lunchroom workers laid off last month as part of school budget cuts.

A former Downtown Project employee who was laid off last fall said, from their experience with Holacracy and Hsieh, they think he can pull it off and that Zappos will be better off for having the 210 employees leave.

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

The Watertown Daily Times closed its Washington, D.C. bureau, laying off the last of its capitol beat reporters, part of a tradition that stretches back more than 60 years.

Not exact matches

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.

That helps explain why the network shut down Grantland, the high - profile journalistic effort run by Bill Simmons, and also why it laid off 300 people last fall.

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.

Citing concerns about the sagging European market, last fall turbine giant Vestas closed three plants in Denmark and another in Sweden, laying off 3,000 workers.

Last November, LivingSocial laid off 400 employees, mostly in the U.S., in an effort to «streamline» its sales and editorial departments.

In particular, this technique is used if it seems like you left your last employer under suspicious circumstances, e.g., you say you were laid off, but it sounds like you got fired.

«Firms heavily favour employees with seniority when adjusting employment; as a result, youths tend to be laid off first and rehired last,» said a government report from 1997.

Last week, Microsoft said it would lay off thousands of salespeople as it continues to emphasize its cloud business.

Despite shuttering a few of its offices and laying off more than 600 people last quarter, Zynga still has 2,300 employees.

The new CEO, under Sacks» guidance, laid off almost half the staff last month.)

Last month, the company announced that it would be laying off 520 people, about 18 percent of its staff, and closing its offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Dallas.

The economy might be prospering now, but that won't last forever: «The party has to stop sometime, and when it does, employers will lay off workers,» the study says.

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

The effects are being felt by some companies that have been in the vanguard of developing 3D printing technology, not just 3D Systems, but also rival MakerBot, which has laid off more than 100 employees over the last seven months.

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

Walt Disney Studios, Disney's theatrical, television and home entertainment arm, laid off 150 employees last month, including some senior executives, as part of an ongoing company - wide effort to streamline staffing levels.

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.

Last month the company said it would be laying off about 4500 employees in total, following a second quarter loss of nearly US$ 1 billion.

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.

Last week, Best Buy laid off 400 corporate employees, a decision that will help save the company about $ 150 million.

Last month, the union filed a complaint with a federal labor board on behalf of scores of workers who it says were laid off because they support the union.

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.

Last week the Fremont, California - based company said it had suspended operations and laid off 1,100 workers.

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.

Microsoft is scaling down its mobile phone activities, writing off the entire value of the former Nokia smartphone business it bought last year and laying off almost one - third of that business» staff.

Updated GSS figures released in June 2015, found that 1.3 % of employees with employee stock ownership, which includes the ESOP model and other forms of employee ownership, said that they were laid off in the last year compared to a 9.5 % rate for employees without employee stock ownership.

The GSS found that 1.3 % of employees with employee stock ownership, which includes the ESOP model and other forms of employee ownership, said that they were laid off in the last year compared to a 9.5 % rate for employees without employee stock ownership.

Eleven percent of American workers say they are «very» or «fairly» likely to be laid off in the next year, a slight increase from last year's record - low 8 %.

If I was laying there waiting to die and I summoned my chaplain, and I wasn't allowed to talk about the things I most wanted to get off my chest before dying, the things I needed to make sure were said before the last drop of life in me was gone, what is the point of calling anyone in to talk to?

On the other hand, private industry has laid off a good chunk of their workforce while squeezing every last bit of productivity out of those who remain, held back raises while telling their employees they're lucky to have a job, stopped making 401k matching contributions even after their profits have soared to record highs and they've banked a ton of cash that they're NOT spending to hire or rehire laid - off employees.

Not that it's going to last much longer — I've been outsourced to somewhere they work for rice and am getting laid - off in two weeks.

Unions fought fiercely against the lay - off last year, the strike went on for three months and the workers were violently repressed by the police.

This man's experience was that blacks are the last to be hired in properous times and the first to be laid off in depressed times.

Last year I ran off to Puerto Rico for a few days, but this year I'm looking forward to laying low, catching up with friends and family, and sleeping A LOT.

It was my last week at my job, I recently got laid off.

I took all the decorating classes and love to decorate cakes, so when I got layed off my job last year I wanted to open my own cake shop, and its not as easy as you think at least were i live in pa you have to contact the health dept plus you have to make sure your house is zoned commerical contact your local borough office if your not you will have to have a hearing and it cost about 300 dollars for that, plus i couldn't have the bake shop in my house unless i had a separate kitchen for the bake shop, and one for my family plus no pets aloud, i am lucky enough that i have a rental house next to mine that i'm turning into a bakeshop but i have to turn it into a business, i've been working with the small business assoc. and the health dept plus there are permits i need, electric has to be updated and new lighting, plus the plummer has to do alot because i have to have a 3 bay sink and a grease trap, gas lines need to be ran for the oven,