About 40 workers have recently received layoff notices.
Without a last-minute intervention, its outlets will go off the air on Dec. 31, and NJN's 130 employees have already received layoff notices.
Several hundred unionized state workers, many of whom received layoff notices last week, met yesterday to discuss how to reverse more than 2,800 planned job losses.
Hundreds of Lucent Technologies workers received layoff notices yesterday as the struggling communications equipment maker, aiming to cut its work force by 13percentt, began the first major round of layoffs announced last month.
Nearly 3,000 Connecticut state workers received layoff notices yesterday as Gov. John G. Rowland detailed even more measures to close the state's deficit, including a sharp increase in the state's cigarette tax and a doubling of the real estate transfer tax for many homes and commercial properties.
In previous recessions, many workers may have received layoff notices, but many of them could expect recall notices a few months later.
And, what about the 20,000 state workers who received layoff notices?
They received layoff notices last month on May 10th -- before the legislature even passed a budget.
Because of court rulings, some of the 36,000 state employees who received layoff notices leading up to the shutdown continued or returned to work during the shutdown.
Of the 9,000 workers at the site, more than 200 members of the Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council like Stephens received layoff notices last month, and more than 2,000 non-union workers will have to take unpaid days off this year.
