As banks and big companies lay off their staff, the graduates of creative courses are well placed to ride out the economic downturn, according to the largest survey of creative graduates by the Institute for Employment Studies.
Plans by Hyundai, the country's biggest company, to lay off 1,500 workers were whittled down when politicians intervened in the negotiations; instead, only a few hundred lost their jobs.
Grocery stores will lay off big parts of their workforce as cheap, automated stocking and checkout services become available.
Telstra, Australia's biggest telephone company, will lay off up to 10,000 workers, or 19percentt of its work force, as the government prepares to sell its controlling $20 billion stake in the company.
Alcoa Inc., the world's biggest aluminum producer, will lay off all 400 workers at its Wenatchee aluminum smelter in Washington State and said it planned no new offers after union leaders rejected a plan to restart the plant.
"The message has gone out to lay off the big shots upstate," Mr. Kennedy said.
The company was forced to lay off a big chunk of its workforce and was then sold to TIBCO, a software company.
But some think the protesters should lay off the big bank officials.
Last week, Raizen, the country's biggest producer, announced it will lay off 250 workers and cease production at its Bom Retiro mill for two years because of cane shortages caused by the drought.
Daniel M. Klein, a partner at the Atlanta law firm Buckley & Klein, said that the "safest way to blog about work is not to do it," adding that it's "just a matter of time" before some of the biggest companies that endorse blogging lay off employees for going too far.
The withdrawal of his church's biggest donors forced him to lay off his entire church staff.
