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Doug Collins Says Veterans Affairs Dept. Slashing 80,000 Jobs Is a Goal
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins pushed back on reports that his department would slash over 80,000 jobs, arguing that figures…
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Layoffs and Job Reductions
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How Trump’s Closing a Tariff Loophole Will Hurt UPS and FedEx
Less than a year ago, executives from FedEx and UPS were talking about how they were handling a flood of packages from China to American…
News
Newark Delays Persist as Union Official Says Controllers Briefly Lost Contact With Planes
Air traffic controllers temporarily lost communication with planes at Newark Liberty International Airport last week, according to the…
Politics
Musk Is Less Confident About DOGE Goals, 100 Days Into Trump Presidency
Seated at the head of a large conference table inside the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room on Wednesday afternoon, Elon Musk, dressed in his…
Business
UPS Says It Will Cut 20,000 Jobs in Efficiency Drive
UPS said on Tuesday that it would cut 20,000 jobs this year as part of a long-term plan to reduce costs and bolster profit. The cuts come…
Politics
Howard Lutnick, Trump’s ‘Buoyant’ Trade Warrior, Flexes His Power Over Global Business
Since Howard Lutnick was tapped to serve as President Trump’s commerce secretary, executives from some of the world’s largest companies…
Politics
New Details Emerge on Trump Officials’ Sprint to Gut Consumer Bureau Staff
Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel from the federal appeals court in Washington lifted a freeze on firing employees at the Consumer…
Politics
F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs
Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the Food and Drug Administration’s food-safety labs,…
Business
How to Talk to Your Children About Money in These Uncertain Times
Stock market gyrations. Inflation. Layoffs of federal workers. A possible recession. Children may overhear their parents talking about…
News
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings, maybe even a “DOGE dividend” check in their mailboxes, when the Department…
Politics
Federal Work Force Prepares for Another Round of Mass Firings as Deadline Nears
Federal agencies are facing a deadline on Monday to present their plans for another round of mass firings, the next step in the Trump…
Politics
British Government Takes Control of Country’s Last Major Steel Mill
The British government moved swiftly on Saturday to take control of operations at the country’s last large crude steel producing facility,…
Politics
Appeals Court Scales Back Freeze on Firing Consumer Bureau Employees
A federal appeals panel on Friday halted parts of a district court judge’s injunction blocking the Trump administration’s effort to…
Business
Canada Will Use Its Retaliatory Tariff Earnings to Aid Workers and Businesses
The 25 percent tariff Canada began collecting on cars and trucks imported from the United States early Wednesday is notjust the country’s…
Politics
U.S. Employers Added 228,000 Jobs in March, but Outlook Is Clouded
U.S. employers accelerated hiring in March, a surprising show of strength that analysts warned might be the high-water mark for the labor…
Business
FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced wide-ranging cutbacks at federal health agencies, including the Food and Drug…
Business
Layoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates
When Starbucks announced last month that it was laying off more than 1,000 corporate employees, it highlighted a disturbing trend for…
Politics
Who Are the Probationary Federal Workers Being Cut Under Trump?
In news about the Trump administration’s job-slashing effort, one class of federal workers comes up repeatedly: “probationary” employees.…
Business
New York Public Radio to Lay Off About 7% of Staff
New York Public Radio said on Tuesday that it would lay off about 7 percent of its staff as it continued to struggle with a financial…
Business
Starbucks to Lay Off 1,100 Corporate Workers
Starbucks is laying off 1,100 corporate employees, its chief executive said in a letter to workers on Monday, marking the coffee chain’s…
Politics
Pushback to Latest DOGE Demand May Signal Limits for Elon Musk
A clash over Musk’s latest missive Monday could bring a standoff between Elon Musk and huge swaths of the federal government, including…
Business
Officials Fired at Traffic Safety Agency Investigating Musk’s Company
The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating whether self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles played a…
Politics
Comparing Elon Musk and Jack Welch as Influential Cost-Cutters
And while the two were both politically conservative, Welch was more of a country-club Republican, partial to golf and no fan — at least…
Politics
Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety
In recent years, the Food and Drug Administration hired experts in surgical robots and pioneers in artificial intelligence. It scooped up…