The number suggests strong hiring activity, the AP reports: Weekly applications are a proxy for layoffs.
The company weathered the storm without layoffs, partly by reassigning redundant production workers to find ways to cut costs, improve quality and streamline production.
The same goes for Germany, according to Martin Zündorf of the Association of Research-Based Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers, which represents the country's bigger drugs firms.Any threat of removing such products from the list could soon translate into lost sales—and into layoffs.
When worried students and consultants do finally gain (or regain) their sought-after jobs, they might come up with innovative ways for companies to scale back without resorting to layoffs, furloughs, or deferrals.
Many layoffs, such as Tenneco Automotive's cutbacks in marketing, would have happened anyway as corporate restructuring ploughs on.In short, the mid-west's industrialists are no surer than the nation's economists or the politicians in Washington whether America is heading for a recession.
America's unemployment rate unexpectedly held steady at 4.5% in July despite increasing layoffs.
They resist privatisation, not least because they fear layoffs.
Big exporters, like Hitachi and Toshiba, are announcing huge layoffs.
In New York City illegal workers serve sex, drugs and takeout to the wealthiest members of society--or at least they did until financial sector layoffs began in 2008.
But as firms adjust their payrolls to a lower level of demand, layoffs are likely to accelerate.
A government subsidy to allow shut firms to continue paying salaries has already run out, and layoffs are legion.I cycle through the old suburbs south of the red zone, where life again feels normal, despite the holes in the ground.
