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Ohio Corrections Connections
This series found “one of the largest state agencies involved in a pattern of apparent abuse of state tax dollars and power”. This series revealed a number of things, including expensive parties at the taxpayers’ expense while employees were being laid off, friends of officials buying state-made furniture for less than state agencies were paying for it, and firing workers for a number of violations and then hiring them back within weeks or months.
Tags: corrections officials; Capital; governor; Governor Strickland; corruption; funds; state; economy; government; Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
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Without Warning
The Blade looks at how workers are fired or laid-off without warning, despite the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
Tags: worker; union; WARN act; layoff; plant closing; legislation; Congress;
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The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
Layoffs have become a fact of American life. When faced with financial issues, companies simply cut workforce, to the tune of at least 30 million adult, full-time workers having been laid off since the early 1980s. But what is the psychological effect, not only of periods of unemployment, but also of the layoff itself? Author Louis Uchitelle examines the damage to self esteem and mental health such situations cause to their victims.
Tags: Layoffs; corporate downsizing; mental health, unemployment; low self-esteem
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Shaky Numbers: Layoffs Not Related to Nafta Can Trigger Special Help Anyway
The Journal reports that a number of employers have been certified by the Labor Department as victims of the free trade agreement NAFTA, and have become eligible for certain training and other benefits for laid off employees. But in fact, the story finds, many of the presumed 'victims' say their problems and the layoffs have nothing to do with NAFTA. "Even some who benefit from the program say it is on some way a political charade."
Tags: laid-off workers; Mexico. Canada; free trade; job market
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This article discusses the abrupt downsizing of Scott Paper Corporation. The corporation went through rapid changes and was sold to an industry rival Kimberly-Clark. Across the Board looks at the effects of the 11,000 workers who were laid off as well as on the corporation.
Tags: Cassel Employees 6 pgs.
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Jobs in an Age of Insecurity
Time Magazine reports that "Thirty months into a recovery, Americans are realizing that the great American job is gone. In its place: a new world of work...all sorts of people who never thought they would be on the jobless lines - professional and managerial types, highly skilled technicians and long-seniority office workers - are joining laid-off factory hands in looking for jobs and not finding them.."
Tags: unemployment restructuring NAFTA underemployed retraining layoffs
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American Prospect examines the shock to the IBM corporate culture when it laid off 7,700 workers in one day at an outstate New York plant; it includes a detailed look at the newly unemployed, the surrounding area and the failure of IBM to change with business trends.
Tags: Hoerr Poughkeepsie
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No title (id: 9454)
The Repository (Canton, Ohio) looks at job retraining in the United States and finds that retraining programs are usually a false hope; most factory workers who lose their jobs suffer the ecomonic consequences for the rest of their lives with only a small fraction of laid-off workers being retrained, May 23, 1992. # OH Wynn Keane Defense cuts
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