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Amazon Plans To Lay Off Around 10,000 Employees, Report Says Amazon Plans To Lay Off Around 10,000 Employees, Report Says
Amazon Plans To Lay Off Around 10,000 Employees, Report Says A week before the holiday shopping season officially kicks off, Amazon is set to begin laying off approximately 10,000 corporate and technology employees, The New York Times reports. Job cuts at the online retail giant were expected to start the week of Monday, Nov. 14, and will primarily affect Amazon’s retail, devices, and human resources divisions, according to the outlet. The largest in its history, the layoffs would impact 1 percent of the company’s global workforce and 3 percent of its corporate employees. It follows several other cost-cutting moves that CEO Andy Jassy has implemente…

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by Michael Mashburn
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New Haven Hotel Extends Furloughs-Layoffs For 170 Employees New Haven Hotel Extends Furloughs-Layoffs For 170 Employees
New Haven Hotel Extends Furloughs-Layoffs For 170 Employees A New Haven hotel that has been closed for much of the COVID-19 pandemic has announced mass employee furloughs. On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the state received a notice from Omni New Haven Hotel that said temporary furloughs for about 170 employees will be extended another six months turning the furlough situation into more of a layoff type ordeal. The Omni is owned by Omni Resorts and Hotels. About 135 of the employees are represented by labor union Local 217, according to Omni’s “WARN” letter to the Connecticut Department of Labor’s Rapid Response Team. “Due to business circumstances that were…

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by Kristin Palpini