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		<title><![CDATA[Salary Cuts Persist Long After Layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study found that even 15 to 20 years after a layoff, many affected workers are still earning 20% less. Here are the true stories from one Florida networking group.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:52:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Flex Time Should Survive the Recession]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should work/life balance be one of the frontline casualties of the recession? Joan Williams say no. Writing for the Huffington Post, Williams argues that work/life policies aren't as costly as businesses think.    Williams writes that media coverage of recent business cutbacks in work/life policies suggests that employers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:44:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Airline Declines Force Boeing Cutbacks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Boeing Co. issued pink slips to 452 of its Puget Sound production workers today, signaling, perhaps, that it is indeed moving toward rumored production cuts as airlines try to delay jet deliveries.    Boeing gave 60-day layoff warnings to 1,100 workers in all today, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:53:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Layoffs Raise Many Problems for Tech Companies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A typical knee-jerk reaction of companies to bad financial conditions is to lay off workers. From one view, you can understand the managerial logic. When revenues drop enough, you lower expenses or lose money. But it turns out that companies are opening a veritable Pandora's box of issues and problems...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:27:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Layoffs: Preparing For A Long Unemployment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seasonal employees are the most likely class of workers to be laid off for specific periods of time. Employees in the fishing industries in Newfoundland, people employed during the income tax period, construction workers and in general seasonal workers, work for specified periods of time during the year. Layoffs in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despite layoffs, Abbott Labs Faces Retirement Wave in 5 Years]]></title>
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		<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[Air Canada denied exception to labor code in layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAW AFP &#8212; Canada's labor minister has rejected Air Canada's request to lay off 2,000 workers without first negotiating the conditions of the layoffs with the employees.  "After carefully examining the application, I have decided that there are insufficient grounds to grant a waiver to Air Canada," Labor Minister...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford workers face involuntary layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT, Michigan AFP &#8212; Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it is planning to make further white collar job cuts in the United States in the face of declining truck sales.  The automakers expects to complete the cuts by August 1 and will not be offering buyout packages, as it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Some GM workers back American Axle strike despite related layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Fight on, brothers and sisters.     That's the sentiment from many GM workers as the strike at supplier American Axle & Manufacturing begins its third week, despite the fact that the strike has forced General Motors to shut down or cut production at 29 U.S....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Emporia plans for layoffs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20080130/ai_n21220457]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hooper   THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL   EMPORIA - Residents are beginning to address the problems and challenges associated with Tyson Foods' decision to lay off 1,500 of its 2,400 employees.   "In some ways this is like the Greensburg tornado, except we see the tornado coming,"...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Emporia plans for layoffs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20080130/ai_n21220461]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hooper   THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL   EMPORIA - Residents are beginning to address the problems and challenges associated with Tyson Foods' decision to lay off 1,500 of its 2,400 employees.   "In some ways this is like the Greensburg tornado, except we see the tornado coming,"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Livermore Lab workers face layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will likely face more layoffs as it confronts a tighter federal budget, increased expenses, and a push to streamline the country's nuclear weapons complex.    Lab Director George Miller told employees at an all-hands meeting Thursday morning that he's proposing a work force reduction...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Loan firms lay off 24,000 since Aug. 1]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070823/ai_n19492058]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the North Carolina offices of mortgage lender HomeBanc Corp., Archie Clark is the only employee left. But in a few days, he'll be gone, too.   "It's pretty much a ghost town over there," Clark said. "Somebody went in and took the furniture from the lobby. I don't...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Layoffs and buyouts have helped some former Lorain plant workers shift gears and find...Life after Ford.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a far cry from the recoil of air guns and the repetition  of radiator assembly, but as Barbara Hovekamp, Jeff Borer and  Christopher Kerlin are discovering, there is life after Ford Motor Co.    Like scores of their fellow former production workers  It's a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Claims for unemployment benefits fall by largest amount in 9 weeks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070426/ai_n19035574]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The number of laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell last week by the sharpest amount in nearly two months, indicating the labor market remains healthy despite the sluggish economy.   The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for jobless benefits totaled 321,000 last week, a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Extending Mass Layoff Warnings]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5292/is_200704/ai_n21243812]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[STATEHOUSE The state could get the longest notification requirement in country   NEW JERSEY would become the first state to require companies to give workers 90 days notice-30 days more than required by federal law-before implementing mass layoffs or shutting a plant, under a bill the Senate has passed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Firing and the Law]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As workers become more knowledgeable about their rights, the number of wrongful-termination lawsuits is on the rise. Here's how you can avoid legal trouble when firing an employee.    Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964      Also known as: Title VII...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Layoff effects]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1153/is_3_130/ai_n27335544]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. By Louis Uchitelle. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 283 pp., $25.95/hardback.  In his book The Disposable American, Louis Uchitelle takes a narrative approach in conveying the problems of mass layoffs in America. Analyzing these problems and providing economic solutions would normally...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thousands demonstrate against Spanish auto layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MADRID AFP &#8212; Some 3,000 people demonstrated Sunday outside the Spanish headquarters of US car parts firm Delphi in a protest against the company's plans to lay off up to 1,600 workers, Spanish media reported.  Unions at the Puerto Real site near the southern city of Cadiz said some...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Labor Announces $1.2 Million Grant to Assist Dislocated Workers in Wisconsin]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200702/ai_n21888813]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Peggy Abrahamson, +1-202-693-7909, or David James, +1- 202-693-4676, both of the U.S. Department of Labor WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced a grant of more than $1.2 million, with an initial release of $537,282, to the state of Wisconsin...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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