• AM General plans to cut 250 jobs by 2010.
• Winston-Salem State University cut 46 job.

• GE Capital layoffs 127 employees at Bedford.
• Hovensa oil refinery layoffs 270 contract workers.
• Quality Industries layoffs 111 employees.

• National Archive Publishing Co layoffs 120.

• Ethan Allen Interiors cuts 320 jobs.

Total losses = 1244

More than 20300 California teachers have received pink slips to date, according to the California Teachers Association. By law, teachers must be given at least five months notice of possible layoffs. Not all teachers who receive pink slips will be laid off. Many school districts have issued more pink slips than necessary as a precautionary measure while the California State Legislature works to close a budget gap that may exceed $30 billion. Nevertheless, a significant number of teachers face the prospect of unemployment during the next school year and more layoff notices may be issued this coming August.

Florida State University cuts 200 staff.
Southern University to cut 100 positions.
University of Minnesota to cut 1200 jobs.
University of Iowa Hospital to layoff 200.

News emerged today of plans by Queens University in Belfast to make 150 members of academic staff redundant.
Queens University in Belfast plans to axe 150 academic jobs at the university. The university is blaming a funding shortfall and ‘poor performance’ of some staff. However, a local newspaper contacted the Department of Employment and Learning who said funding for this financial year had actually been increased, and were unaware of the plans
Many of those expected to be targetted with compulsory redundancies are those who concentrate on teaching rather than research.

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

New York City’s financial services have been hit hard in recent times, and today the city council announced they would be reducing the work force in the city by 2000.  They would be mainly teachers and the numbers would be reduced through layoffs or attrition. A good number of those are likely to be nonteaching positions in the Department of Education.

Total losses = 2000

Corporate tech-training company Global Knowledge recently laid off about 70 workers as part of a broader cost-cutting effort.

• Fort Wayne Community Schools will lay off more than 100 teachers at its school board meeting Monday night.
• CSX are laying off at least 200 employees or 25% of the workforce in Buffalo. Half of the 800 rail cars that go through Frontier Yard every day will now be re-routed to Ohio, Albany, and Syracuse. Fewer cars to work will mean fewer employees are needed.
• At least 561 Downey Savings & Loan workers in Newport Beach will be laid off over the next five months.
• Monahan Filaments is to lay off 54 workers because orders are down more than 50 percent from last year.
• PPG Industries is laying off 110 people at its fiberglass plant in Lexington. The company cited “unfavorable conditions in the global economy” as a reason for the layoffs.

General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cut 21000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out the storied Pontiac brand.

For Pontiac, the decision means the death of a brand known for its muscle cars including the Trans Am made famous in movies and the GTO, the subject of a nostalgic song by Ronny and the Daytonas.

• Conde Nast Publications Inc. is shuttering the business magazine Portfolio and its Web site, Portfolio.com, and laying off more than 80 people.
• The U.S. Treasury Office of Thrift Supervision will close and 110 employees will be laid off.
• Clearwater Paper is laying off about 50 paperboard employees.
• Hanesbrands Inc. will lay off 500 employees in corporate management and distribution operations to reduce costs.
• Faced with declining revenues and a recession, Riverside County proposed 1000 jobs  cuts or roughly 5% of the county workforce — including hundreds of public safety jobs.
• Lucia Mar makes more than 50 job cuts.
• Outdoors outfitter L.L. Bean has notified employees that it plans to lay off 200 to 240 members of its Maine-based work force because of lagging sales.
• The Chicago Tribune is cutting 53 jobs as part of a newsroom reorganization designed to help the newspaper weather the Economic Downturn.

Total losses = 22265

• Park Nicollet Health Services annouced today they were laying off 233 workers and would not be filling another 69 open positions. The reductions which take effect from Friday, represent 1.8 percent of St. Louis Park-based Park Nicollet’s work force. A decline in services has seen investment suffer, although most believe the recession is to blame.
• Georgia-Pacific say they will lay off 39 hourly employees by mid-May.
• General Motors Corp. started firing 1600 white-collar workers Monday in order to qualify for more government loans (doesn’t make sense now does it?). GM has said it will eliminate 47000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2009, but the cuts may go even deeper as the company moves toward its deadline.
• Renewable Environmental Solutions, last month filed for Chapter 11 in bankruptcy court in New York and today laid off about 50 employees at the plant. Read the story.#
• Legg Mason laid off 40 admin and support workers, including 5 at its Baltimore HQ.
• Herbert Smith is to cut up to 84 members of staff from it London office and is also reversing all associate pay bands.
• The DSM chemical plant is cutting 80 people to cut costs, effective at the end of June.
• The Quincy school district announced its second and final round of cuts. 15 employees were honorably dismissed who worked as educational support personal. That includes library staff, computer staff and paraprofessional personal.
• Tele Atlas, a New Hampshire-based company that makes digital maps is laying off 120 employees at its Lebanon headquarters and 140 jobs in North America.
• It has been reported in The Herald Journal that 27 lecturers and research lab workers who have lost their jobs at USU in the latest round of cuts.
• Sun-Times Media Group Inc. has cut about 140 jobs companywide as it tries to trim costs during its bankruptcy reorganization. The cuts, which affected both managers and non-managers, amounted to about 10% of the company’s non-union staff.
• Robert Bosch Corp. announced Monday that 225 workers from its North Charleston plant would be laid off.

Total losses = 2798

RENFREWSHIRE council is to axe 81 school jobs, including 28 teachers, as part of £2.4 million worth of cuts.
Dozens of teachers, classroom assistants, admin staff, foreign language assistants and music tutors are to go.

This is according to the news.scotsman.com website.

Mr Mackay said:

The number of pupils in Renfrewshire’s 11 secondary and 51 primary schools has dropped by around 1,000 compared with 2007-8.
One of the reasons we have fewer teachers is that we have fewer pupils – it’s a simple equation.

Job losses = 81