Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Lay Offs at the Los Angeles Times


The lack of changes at the Los Angeles Times was short lived as my cell phone took many calls and incoming text messages regarding the many layoffs around the newspaper last night as I slept. Unverified reports of over 100 employees being laid off yesterday through the remainder of the week are circulating around the company.

The pressroom lost five crew supervisors at the Olympic and Orange County production facilities, three district managers from circulation, twelve security guards, and one Orange County shipping clerk.

Due to the employees not being informed of their lay offs sixty days in advance the
WARN ACT comes into play.

These are some very sad days around the newspaper.

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