Eighty-seven Hamilton County deputies are being notified that they will be laid off on Christmas Eve as the sheriff looks to close one of the four jails to balance his 2009 budget. (Cincinnati.com)
December 2008
U.S. Steel is idling a taconite plant in Keewatin and two other facilities in Michigan and Missouri. The company says about 3,500 employees will be laid off in total. Amid the global economic slowdown, prices for many steel products have fallen at double-digit rates over the past month. (MPR)
EnteroMedics Inc., considered one of the most promising local med-tech start-ups in recent years, said Monday it is laying off about 18 percent of its workforce. The Roseville-based company, which is developing a pacemaker-like device to treat obesity, said the workforce reduction will help pare expenses and involves only positions that would have been underused [...]
Elektrobit will lay off 170 staff worldwide as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saying €10 million per year. EB will also cut certain programs and reduce some subcontracting. (CircuitAssembly)
and we are formally in a recession, we should be seeing a rash of pre-holiday layoffs. We expect they are doing booming business over at the Jelly-of-the-month club. Where is Uncle Eddie when you need him? Foxcon to layoff 1500 – Link 3400 gone at Washington Mutual – Link Fring’s all-in with a 20% RIF [...]
Of course, based on our logs, we are not sure anyone is linking here from the Journal (which could be a Screwdd indicator for them). If you did get here via the WSJ leave a comment below. If we get 25 comments we’ll fix our crappy design and send a copy of the Elements of [...]
Spin this anyway you want…it spells failure for Internet darling Kevin Rose. We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. We’re bittersweet [...]
