Sentences with phrase «number of layoffs in»

The site also points out that as layoffs are notoriously underreported, the actual number of layoffs in 2009 was likely much higher.

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Then there was GE Power's facility in Schenectady, New York, which announced the layoff of an undisclosed number of employees, blaming «a significant decline in orders.»

A Dell spokesperson confirmed the layoffs to Fortune and said in an email, «The number of employees involved is not a material number relative to Dell Technologies» headcount of approximately 140,000.»

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

A Qualcomm spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that both full - time and temporary workers will be affected by the layoffs, without citing the specific number of full - time and contract workers that will be cut.

Combined with pressures we observe on profit margins, my impression is that investors may be surprised at the number of companies that attempt to offset earnings disappointments in the coming weeks by pairing those reports with cost - cutting, in the form of layoff announcements.

The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms plunged by 32 percent in December to the lowest monthly total in more than 13 years, a report on Thursday showed.

Levy went on to note that a number of the cost - saving measures Paterson says he supports, including the property tax cap and wage freeze for state employees (or, alternatively, layoffs), were not included in the governor's proposed budget.

Mulgrew called the attacks on pensions, the threat of teacher layoffs, the fight to change seniority layoff rules, the targeting of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.»

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo today voiced support — albeit not happily — for the 898 layoffs Gov. David Paterson is pursuing prior to the end of the year, but avoided directly addressing whether he would seek to increase that number in his first executive budget.

State leaders and Thruway officials in recent years have undertaken a number of cost - cutting measures, including staff layoffs and having the State Police budget absorb the cost of patrolling the toll roads, an expense that had previously been on the Thruway's books.

Speaking outside Tryon Residential Center (a Fulton County juvenile detention facility that is currently empty and has been rumored to be poised for closure for some time now), Cuomo reminded reporters to keep in mind the human price of layoffs, stressing that each «number» that corresponds with a job being cut is actually connected to a family.

New Yorkers are split, 4 - 47, on the idea of layoffs, which Cuomo is reportedly mulling in big numbers — anywhere form 10,000 to 15,000 jobs may be on the chopping block when he unveils his budget next week.

Mayor Bloomberg in his Feb. 17 budget address threatened nearly 5,000 teacher layoffs come September — the first since the 1970s fiscal crisis — even as he called education his «number one priority» and spoke of the city's strengthening economy.

However, when explained to voters that Mayor Bloomberg says his proposal to hike the city's sales tax half a percent is not ideal but is a solution to avoid additional spending cuts in the city's budget and reduce the number of layoffs, slightly more — 46 % — support the idea.

The mayor has stuck to the same number of planned layoffs even though the state came through with more than $ 200 million in additional education aid since February and the city has $ 100 million of new federal aid to support medical services in special education.

The authors find that if the RIF - notified teachers made the average salary in their district, it would only be necessary to lay off 1,349 teachers in order to attain the same budgetary savings, or roughly 20 percent less than the actual number of teachers who received layoff notices.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of servicIn a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of servicin public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of servicin issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

Thousands of Chicago teachers, for instance, have felt the sting of layoffs and furloughs in the past two years, even as the massive Chicago Public School system, bound by contract, continues to annually hire a specified number of TFA corps members.

She noted the steep drop off in the number of college students entering preparation programs - a reaction to budget cuts and layoffs.

After the OPSB layoffs, Teach for America (TFA), a nonprofit that trains college grads to teach in underprivileged communities, swept in to fill the gap, tripling the number of new recruits going to New Orleans.

The number was so high because inner - city schools like ours tend to have a disproportionate share of teachers just starting their careers, and in last year's layoffs, the most recently hired were the first to receive pink slips.

«Generally thousands of layoff notices go out on March 15, and there is always a reduction in the number that are actually laid off,» Pollard - Terry said.

In a statement sent to BI, a B&N spokesperson confirmed that layoffs were taking place, but would not comment specifically on the number of employees leaving the company:

In 2008, the correspondent lending channel was responsible for half of Citimortgage's residential loans, partly because of mass layoffs in the wholesale division, coupled with a massive downsizing effort that reduced the number of approved mortgage... View ArticIn 2008, the correspondent lending channel was responsible for half of Citimortgage's residential loans, partly because of mass layoffs in the wholesale division, coupled with a massive downsizing effort that reduced the number of approved mortgage... View Articin the wholesale division, coupled with a massive downsizing effort that reduced the number of approved mortgage... View Article

Dr. Wilson, who's the wife of Steve Wilson, communications director for Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, says the Circle L, like most sanctuaries and shelters, has seen unprecedented numbers of animals coming in due to the faltering economy, foreclosures and layoffs.

Kotaku's Jason Schreier collected a number of layoff horror stories in «The Pizza Party Where Everyone Got Fired.»

Irrational Games has begun hiring new staff following a significant number of layoffs earlier in the year.

According to a Eurogamer report in May 2014, the studio made a «significant loss» on the project, which debuted at 14th in the UK weekly all - formats sales chart, and suffered a number of layoffs.

Polygon — claiming two anonymous sources with «knowledge of the situation» — is reporting that the number of layoffs from EA's continuing reorganization is now in the hundreds, with people being affected across nearly all parts of the company; some areas are losing a half dozen people, others are losing dozens.

Sources have told Polygon the layoffs are affecting «a lot» of workers across the entire company, and suggested the total number could be somewhere in the hundreds.

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The exact number and scope of layoffs in this latest round is not clear.

The American Cyanamid board ultimately agrees to accept AHP's offer, which results in a substantial number of employee layoffs.

The «down side,» Mr. Bower said, is that as law firms turn leaner, they will need fewer lawyers; in the wake of vast numbers of layoffs that have already resulted from a weak economy, even more associates may be finding themselves out of jobs.

This might result in a hiring freeze or even corporate downsizing, a fancy term for layoffs, or reducing the number of employees.

The actual number of layoffs will not be known until plans are finalized in the next four to six weeks.

That kind of jump in four months» time suggests ripple effects from a funding slowdown that stretch beyond a small but growing number of layoffs.

What's more, the number of planned layoffs at companies, which has been rising for the last three months, curtailed in August.