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		<title><![CDATA[Best 401(k) Moves When You Leave a Job]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving a company means you need to decide what to do with your 401k savings ? and the right answer is worth tens of thousands of dollars. These seven rules will help you minimize your taxes and maximize your nest egg.  1. Do Not Cash Out   ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Layoffs, Lakeside Absorbed, ASCs Rake in Profits, Retail Clinics Forecast to Grow, and More]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:42:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NYT News Service Lays Off Edit Staffers; Duties Moved To Non-Union Florida Paper]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The New York Times News Service is getting rid of nearly all of its editorial staffers and will hand off the operation to the NYTCo&#8217;s Gainsville Sun, the NYT reported. The NYTNS edits and syndicates articles from the NYT and more than 100 other sources. It acts like the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:05:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Omnicom Gets for Its Layoffs: $116,000 Per Person]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omnicom has reduced its salaries bill by $404 million in the last year as it laid off 3,500 people, according to a filing with the SEC. Crunch those numbers and you find that on average, laying off each Omnicom staff member saves the company about $116,000 in salary and benefit...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:19:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UPDATED: BMS Funded Anti-Reform Group But Its Execs Keep Health Coverage After Layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Bristol-Myers Squibb funds DLA Piper, the lobby group behind the anti-healthcare reform town hall disruptions, its top executives enjoy the kind of benefits the rest of us don't get: coverage that lasts three years after they quit or are laid off. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:13:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Art of Cutting Pay, Not People]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who's going to work just as hard for less compensation?  Lots of people, actually. Pay cuts are no longer the taboo cost-saving tactic  they once were.   The Morale Question    Yale economist Truman Bewley established the prevailing  theory for why wages tend to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shore Up Your Beleaguered Finances]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncle Sam thinks you're too rich to help, so you'll have to help yourself.  Keep  Your Income Flowing    In past recessions, the little guy  or gal took the brunt of the job losses. Now, however, a high annual income &#8212;  one over $100,000...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valassis Q1: Legal Bills Running at 22% of Profits; Hints of Layoffs?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valassis had another awful quarter in which its legal bills were 22 percent of its profit and CFO Robert Recchia hinted that there may be more layoffs to come at the company. He's seeking to get $25 million out of his sales, general and admin budget -- the expense line...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 14:48:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NY Times Cuts 100; Reduces Salaries Across the Board]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our daily reminder that the entire newspaper industry is crumbling before our eyes, The New York Times has announced its latest retrenchment -- layoffs of 100 staffers on the business side of its operation, with virtually every other non-unionized position subject to a 5 percent salary cut.  ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis CEO Levy "Loves" Recession; Says It "Excites" Him]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis chief Maurice Levy says he loves the recession because it "excites" him, a statement that will have his current and former employees spluttering into their coffee this morning. Levy told Ad Age, in answer to a question about the downturn:  It doesn't make me nervous; the reality is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:21:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[As Layoffs Begin, Wyeth Execs Get $75 Million Severance Package]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top five executives at Wyeth will receive $75 million between them in the Pfizer acquisition, according to an analysis by Equilar, a corporate compensation consultancy. The jackpot payouts come as their plan calls for 19,500 of their colleagues to be made jobless, and the merger they negotiated was paid...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Firms Take Cost Cuts Short of Layoffs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1665]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As the recession gathers steam, more employers are freezing salaries or cutting 401k contributions to shore up their sagging balance sheets.    The latest is Yahoo Inc. where Carol Bartzbecame CEO about a week ago. Yahoo's 13,700 employees were told of the salary freezes on Jan. 21. Others...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:12:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is There Life After Being Laid Off?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=941643]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If a layoff situation comes out of the blue, with no warning, then the separation may force the affected employee to make decisions that he or she would have ordinarily spent months pondering. Rest assured, there is a new life awaiting you, but there are some steps that you must...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Layoffs: Considering An Alternate Offer At The Same Company]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=937629]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several benefits to considering an alternate offer at the same company. If you can find another position within the company you do not lose seniority for most companies. Considering an alternate off at the same company means being able to keep your health benefits. The monthly premiums you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Twin Cities Layoffs, Medicare Payment Tinkering, Google Deal with Insurer, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clinics get hit by layoffs -- Park Nicollet Health Services and North Memorial Health Care, both in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, are terminating 600 workers and 233 employees, respectively. Both organizations include outpatient clinics as well as hospitals and other facilities. Their pink-slip announcements follow hundreds of layoffs from Allina...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:41:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despite layoffs, Abbott Labs Faces Retirement Wave in 5 Years]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000447/despite-layoffs-abbott-labs-faces-retirement-wave-in-5-years/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A report in Kiplinger's notes that roughly 25 percent of the employees of Abbott Labs are age 50 or older, and in five years that number could top more than 40 percent.     The demographics are likely similar at many other large drug companies. Abbott is experimenting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:32:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rebalance Compensation From Top to Bottom]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2403-13241_23-251266.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When morale flags, sacrifice executive pay and reward those  further down the ladder to send a unifying message.    	  The scenario: Budget cuts and fear of layoffs are  killing employee morale, and productivity has come to a standstill.  The tactic: Sacrifice executive pay...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Focus on the Family will lay off 30, move 15 more to new jobs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Focus on the Family announced Monday that it is laying off 30 employees and reassigning 15 others.    It also announced that founder James Dobson had been cleared of accusations that he jeopardized the group's nonprofit status by endorsing Republican candidates.    Most of the layoffs...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forecasts look promising for 2006: unemployment continues to drop despite increase in mass layoffs.(ECONOMIC OUTLOOK)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONSUMER PRICES     The Consumer Price Index CPI for January was 198.3 and registered  a 0.8 percent decrease from the previous month and a 4.0 percent  increase over the previous January. This number is running higher than  we've seen for some time, and while...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[AAUP Responds to Katrina's Impact on New Orleans Universities]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina late last August on New Orleans and the Gult Coast region has been called the worst natural disaster ever experienced in the United States. The damage to institutions of higher education and their faculties, in New Orleans alone, has been immense. No major institution...]]></description>
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