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Indonesia coal miners warn of layoffs, economic risks over proposed output cuts
The trims aim to push up the plunging thermal coal prices amid fears of oversupply by the country Indonesia’s Coal Mining Association…
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Plant closure will lead to hundreds of layoffs in Riverside
The meat processing company JBS is closing a packing facility in Riverside and will lay off 374 employees, according to a notice from the…
Business
The Real Cost of Layoffs Isn’t In the Financials
Layoffs have become commonplace in the U.S. economy. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that over 150,000 employees were laid off…
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Amazon Plans Massive Layoffs After Nine Months of President Trump
“Republicans’ reckless decisions are causing prices on everything to go up, from groceries to gas—Wisconsinites cannot afford to pay even…
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Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement
A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration's previous mass…
Politics
Trump administration begins the layoffs of furloughed federal workers
The White House is now making good on its threats to fire federal workers because of the government shutdown, Office of Management and…
Politics
Karoline Leavitt Has Wild Excuse for Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs
The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s favorite far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer…
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Qantas fined A$90m for illegal layoffs during pandemic
An Australian court has fined airline giant Qantas A$90m (£43m; $59m) for illegally sacking some 1,700 ground workers during the Covid-19…
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Self-deportations. Factory layoffs. Military zones. How Trump is transforming the U.S.-Mexico border.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Juan Ortíz trudged through 100-degree heat along the U.S.-Mexico border, weighed down by a backpack full of water bottles…
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Trump’s First Layoffs After Massive Supreme Court Victory Are Here
With the stroke of a pen, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on legislation repealing the paid sick leave provision of a ballot…
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Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of federal employees and…
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LinkedIn cuts 281 workers in California as tech layoffs continue
LinkedIn, the professional social network where people search for work, is shedding jobs. The Microsoft-owned tech company has cut 281…
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TikTok Shop US Employees told to work from home as layoffs loom
TikTok told US e-commerce staff to work from home on Wednesday (May 21) while awaiting emails regarding “difficult decisions,” suggesting…
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Microsoft layoffs hit its Silicon Valley workforce
Microsoft is slashing its Silicon Valley workforce. The tech giant, which is based in Washington but also has Bay Area offices, is cutting…
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DOGE layoffs of federal mediators leave grocery chain talks and other labor disputes in limbo
In late March, Isael Hermosillo received an ominous message from his supervisor around 7 a.m. ordering him to cancel all his meetings…
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Is China Exploiting DOGE Layoffs with Fake Job Offers to Collect US Intelligence from Ex-Officials?
The United States has issued a strong warning about a rising threat from Chinese intelligence agencies targeting current and former…
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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…
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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…
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Singapore financial sector may cut hiring amid volatile markets, global bank layoffs
The recent series of job cuts underscore the challenges lenders are grappling with; US banks’ layoffs could ripple through to Singapore…
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California joins 19 Democratic states in suit to stop massive Education Department layoffs
California on Thursday joined Democratic-led states in suing the Trump administration, seeking to halt massive layoffs at the federal…
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Trump guts the Education Department with massive layoffs; shock waves reach California
The Trump administration has begun dismantling the U.S. Department of Education by laying off about half of the agency’s employees,…
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More tech layoffs hit Bay Area as HP and Autodesk announce job cuts
Another round of layoffs hit the San Francisco Bay Area’s volatile tech industry. HP Inc. plans to lay off up to 2,000 more employees as…
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From tech to financial services: Layoffs and job cuts in 2025
RETRENCHMENTS and unemployment have been widespread in the first two months of 2025, with job cuts announced across various industries.…
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Fired federal employees describe turmoil in final days: "Massacre"
Annelise Waling found out February 16 that she was fired from the U.S. Forest Service. It was a deeply unsettling feeling, but she said…