"It assumes normal layoffs in construction and retailing," said James P. Brown, an analyst for the State Labor Department.
Most of the job cuts will come this year, through a combination of early retirements, normal attrition and layoffs, the company said.
In recent months, Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies and the 3Com Corporation each outlined plans to cut their employee count by 10percentthroughugh layoffs and normal attrition.
But some of it is almost certainly a statistical aberration caused by the abnormally warm winter, which led to fewer seasonal layoffs than normal during the cold months and fewer seasonal hires during the spring.
He attributed it to age, the winter layoff and the normal tweaks a pitcher endures.
Yet after a layoff, it is normal to experience some or all of them.
Pathmark Stores, the supermarket retailer that has been among the few chains willing to expand its presence in New York's low-income neighborhoods, has announced tentative restructuring plans that would avoid layoffs and continue normal operations during reorganization, company officials said yesterday.
Layoffs and losses are normal fare in the global airline industry, which has collectively lost $36 billion in the last four years and was set to lose an additional $6 billion in 2005.
About half of the job reductions will come from layoffs, the other half through normal attrition, according to a person within the company who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Jobs are being cut through voluntary early retirements, normal attrition, consolidations and firings but, so far, no layoffs.
