Laid-off employees are now routinely asked to waive their rights under WARN in exchange for whatever severance they do get.
Laid-off employees will collect up to 90% of their income for six months.
Thursday was the last day for laid-off employees to report to their workstations.
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Total deployed wind capacity would have certainly been lower, and bankruptcies, shuttered projects, and laid-off employees far higher without the program.
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Previously, laid-off employees received two weeks of severance pay for each year at the company, up to 26 weeks of pay.
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Employers have been grappling with the issue of whether FICA tax is due on severance payments to laid-off employees for a long time.
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To use the site, laid-off employees can become a member by going to the site's home page, where they can list their employment and contact information.
Barclays Capital laid off 600 employees world-wide earlier this year.
He put together a drug delivery team and laid off two-thirds of the 180 employees.
Last week, as you might already know, AOL laid off over 200 U.S.-based employees, the vast majority of them from its Manhattan-based media operation.
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GM, which plans to begin promoting its relisting on the stock exchange to investors this week, wiped out billions of dollars in debt, laid off thousands of employees and jettisoned money-losing brands during its U.S.-funded reorganization last year.
Other companies that took advantage of the holiday and subsequently laid off scores of employees include Merck, Hewlett-Packard, Ford and Pepsi.
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Wilcox laid off half of the company's senior-level employees and promoted middle managers with a strong grasp of E Ink's technology and the manufacturing process.
Less than a month after the sudden departure of its founder and chairman, Fisker Automotive has reportedly laid off the majority of its rank-and-file employees, retaining top management to pursue a sale of its remaining assets.
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In the event of a takeover, ESOP employees are one-third as likely to be laid off, Rosen says.
This year I laid off a high-salaried person from the business side and proposed two editorial layoffs of employees whose job functions could be absorbed.
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Interpublic Group (nyse: IPG - news - people ), which owns two of the agencies that pitched Virgin Atlantic , has laid off 10, 000 employees (some related to mergers) and shuttered 50 offices around the world since 2001.
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