Meanwhile, District 14 in Brooklyn Heights, as well as District 26 in Queens, which has the city's highest-performing elementary and middle schools, based on the latest progress reports, each face only one layoff.
"You go from a lot of overtime and earning quite a bit of extra money to getting an unemployment check," Smith said, adding that he built a house in Metamora, Illinois only two years before the layoff.
A 70% plunge in oil prices spanning only two years led to rampant industry layoffs.
There's only two ways to do that, productivity enhancements or layoffs.
In 1998, the two unions struck Bell Atlantic for only two days, with little effect on customer service, winning a no-layoff clause and improved pension benefits.
Presuming that the 3,000 figure for today is accurate (Microsoft did not respond to a comment asking if the figure was in the correct range) only a few hundred layoffs remain out of the original 18,000 that were announced.
She said her members were now being asked to forgo a 3 percent raise for an assurance of no layoffs for only one year.
The fact that he was able to minimize the number of layoffs to only six people and how he did that is far more interesting than whether or not TechCrunch should have published the email in the first place.
If layoffs occur, only seven lawyers will handle the entire caseload, according to a spokeswoman, Maria Isabel Rivero.
Wendy Leece, the only one of the five City Council members to vote against the layoffs, said her colleagues were acting "recklessly".
