The jobs will be eliminated through severance and voluntary retirement, Kellogg said.
The league still wants to eliminate the severance package over time, although that would mostly affect new referees.
His committee approved a bill he sponsored that would eliminate all severance packages and cap payouts for unused sick and vacation time at $15,000 each.
The companies would be required to limit executive pay, eliminate "golden parachute" severance packages and sell their corporate jets.
Ginger Reeder, a spokeswoman for the Neiman Marcus Group, confirmed Ms. Kevorkian's account of the layoff, adding that "everyone whose job was eliminated this year was offered a similar severance package".
"Downsized," "right-sized," "let go," "position eliminated"...even if you got a great severance package, you're still out of work.
The company, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., has also eliminated insurance benefits for retirees, and has stopped severance payments to employees who recently left.
Employees of Moulinex, the bankrupt French appliance maker, set fire to one building at the company's microwave oven plant in western France and threatened to blow up another unless they are granted extra severance pay when their jobs are eliminated later this month.
CSIRO also wants to reduce severance payments for those whose jobs are eliminated due to budget cuts.
As a result, the company yesterday said it would eliminate those 2,500 through severance, as well as an additional 1,500.
