Outplacement Reports

As a Recruiter, I receive this information in my in box on a weekly basis. Here is a synopsis of jobs being cut and/or outsourced from 06 May through 13 May - it crosses all types of industries. I don't believe we hear about these layoffs as regularly as the monthly announcement of the job gains - these people are losing their jobs:

Norwood Promotional Products |Advertising & Marketing
Norwood, a company that specializes in promotional products that say "thank you," had a less-appealing message for some employees last week. The company, which manufactures toys and games and imprints various products as giveaway items, will close a plant in New London, Wisconsin, eliminating 200 jobs. The production facility will close by the end of September with work shifting to a plant in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Candidates: 200
St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, May 8, 2004

Johnson Controls |Automotive
Johnson Controls, a company that makes automotive parts, says it will begin the process of eliminating 885 jobs in September. The previously announced cuts, will affect workers at the Southview plant in Holland, Michigan. The company will shift production of visors and door panels to a facility in Mexico.
Candidates: 885
Grand Rapids Press, May 6, 2004

General Motors |Automotive
General Motors has announced that it will cut about half the remaining jobs at a plant in Muncie, Indiana beginning in July. The move will affect about 450 workers at a transmission plant which once employed nearly 3,000 people. Declining demand for stick shifts and related gears has been cited as the overall cause of the plant's demise.
Candidates: 450
Indianapolis Star, May 11, 2004

Bank of America |Banking
Bank of America has filed notice to eliminate 117 jobs in its home city of Charlotte. The reductions, which result from the merger with FleetBoston Financial Corp., will take place at a wire transfer unit. They are part of a previously announced merger restructuring that will eliminate 12,500 jobs overall. The layoffs will begin next month.
Candidates: 117
Charlotte Business Journal, May 13, 2004



Bank One |Banking
Bank One will eliminate about 300 jobs in Indiana and Ohio as the result of the pending merger with J.P. Morgan Chase. The cuts will come primarily in the Indianapolis area and Findlay, Ohio, according to a company spokesperson. The move will solve a duplication of functions in the mortgage services divisions of the two banks.
Candidates: 300
Northwest Indiana Times, May 13, 2004



BASF |Chemicals
Chemical company BASF says it will cut between 550 and 680 jobs beginning in the next several weeks. The layoffs will occur at two plants, one in Louisiana and the other in Texas. The reductions are expected to be completed by the end of 2005 and are aimed at saving $250 million per year.
Candidates: 680
Chemical & Engineering News, May 13, 2004

Apple |Computer Hardware & Services
Apple will eliminate 148 sales and marketing jobs worldwide between now and the end of the fiscal year in September. The company says that the latest job cuts, and the closure of a manufacturing facility in Sacramento, California, should combine to save about $6 million per quarter.
Candidates: 148
Mac Observer, May 6, 2004



Sara Lee |Consumer Products
Sara Lee Bakery has announced that it is cutting three product lines at a plant in Alabama; the move will cost 210 people their jobs. The cake, hearth bread, and specialty bun lines will be eliminated from the products made at the Fort Payne baking facility in two months, according to a company spokesperson.
Candidates: 210
The Huntsville Times, May 11, 2004



Genta |Pharmaceuticals
Ending the marketing of a company's only product may seem a strange way to save the company, but that's exactly what drug manufacturer Genta plans to do. The biotech company says that it will stop marketing a drug called Ganite to focus exclusively on research of a drug for the treatment of skin cancer. The move will slash 45 percent of the company's jobs, about 85 positions.
Candidates: 85
Forbes, May 13, 2004

MCI |Telecom
MCI plans to eliminate 7,500 jobs this year, about 15 percent of its workforce, according to a company release last week. The news came as the company announced a quarterly loss of $388 million in the first quarter. This was the first set of financial results since MCI emerged from bankruptcy protection last month. The company did not specify the nature or locations of the jobs that will be affected.
Candidates: 7500
AP, May 11, 2004

Here's the data going back to April 1995:



The series is so jagged because it is not "seasonally adjusted" data.


The March report (the latest I think) was 920 mass layoffs (greater than 50 people? Maybe 20?). This was down substantially from 1527 in 2001, 1460 in 2002, and 1207 last year (all March figures).

You can do your own research here:
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet

http://www.techsunite.org/offshore/

is an outsourcing tracker. Corporations are fighting tooth and nail
to not report the number of Americans fired and replaced with
cheaper foreigner labor.

You might report such noticies where they are moving the jobs
offshore to this group so they can try to get a number.

Also, in this number, the firing of Americans and replacing them
with cheaper foreigner labor through the use of the H-1B, L-1 Visa
program is not reported. This is a huge number.