Animal Services
4655 jobs gone in 24 hours.
Washington State University layoffs 360 full-time jobs and three academic programs to reduce its budget by $54 million, or more than 10%, over the next two years.
Irish low-cost Ryanair cuts 650 jobs in Ireland, blaming the move on government hikes in taxes amid a deep recession in the eurozone member nation.
Penske Logistics to cut 100 jobs.
Delphi closes Vandalia plant, cuts 116 jobs.
Norske Skog plans to cut 600 jobs.
Bank of America layoffs 81 in Tampa.
University Hospitals in Iowa will layoff 130 employees.
Dean Foods closes PET Dairy operations, cuts 120 jobs.
Lockheed Martin cuts 750 jobs.
Jostens layoffs 185 employees.
Michelin to cut 2800 jobs in France through early retirement and voluntary redundancies in the next three years, sparking concern from the government.
Evonik Cyro layoffs 35 workers.
The slowdown in spending is still finding new victims – most recently MySpace. The social networking giant currently owned by media conglomerate News Corp. will be losing around 30% of its US workforce over the next few weeks, which aquates to about 400 employees.
Total losses in the past 24 hours = 4655
Cats & dogs now becoming credit crunch victims.
Quoted from The Examiner
CATS have become the latest victims of the credit crunch.
Huddersfield RSPCA says its pet fosterers are at capacity following a massive influx of unwanted cats, including kittens and injured animals.
And the organisation, which refuses to put down healthy animals, fears it may have to change its policy if the situation worsens.
Cat & dog losses: none since the RSPCA have a policy not to put an animal down unless necessary, although this might change in light of the many thousands of pets being abandoned.
Related Web Links:
- The Telegraph – Record number of pets abandoned as credit crunch hits
- The impact of the credit crunch on animals – guardian.co.uk
- Animal shelter struggles as credit crunch bites – This is Gloucestershire
