List of Layoffs II

List of Layoffs I

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 26, 2001

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Sara Lee trims 7,000 staff Job cuts to affect more than 4% of the company's work force in 40 countries.

-- (perry@ofuzzy1.com), January 26, 2001.

January 12, 2001 BTI Telecom Incorporated eliminated 71 jobs.

January 17, 2001 General DataComm Industries Incorporated laid off 200 employees.

January 13, 2001 King Comm Incorporated has laid off 30 of its 45 employees.

January 12, 2001 Startec Global Communications Corporation reduced its workforce by 19% by laying off 90 people.

January 18, 2001 Amtrak Incorporated. The introduction of high speed Acela train service from Boston to Washington, D.C., has led Amtrak to cut back on construction and maintenance workers. Amtrak will lay off 80 New England workers in its engineering department because the nation's rail service has completed the track electricification project between Boston and New Haven and because of the harsh winter weather. A wide range of construction workers are affected, including electricians, equipment operators and laborers. The Engineering Division employs about 500 in New England, but they were unable to say how many of them were in the area of construction and maintenance. Union representatives are claiming that it's close to 50%.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 26, 2001.

B] US Press: WorldCom to cut 10%-15% jobs, restructure co. Updated Fri 1/26/2001 10:01 EST By BridgeNews New York--Jan. 26--WorldCom Inc., the world's largest Internet service provider, is expected to lay off between 10% and 15% of its 77,000-strong work force

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), January 26, 2001.

Louisiana

IMC Phosphates is closing two plants at Uncle Sam and Faustina, putting 60 workers on the jobless line. Fifty contract employees lost their jobs last year.

American Iron Reduction closed its Convent plant in late 2000, citing the high cost of natural gas. Sixty-five workers lost their jobs there.

http://www.neworleans.net/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi- free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n3511_BC_LA--IndustrialScrambl&&news&newsflash- louisiana

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 26, 2001.

Fertilizer maker lays off 387 workers More than one-third of the work force at the White Springs plant of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan were given pink slips.

PSC is the third-largest fertilizer producer in the world.

The plant laid off 387 of its 1,002 White Springs employees, who were given 60-days notice last week.

http://jacksonville.bcentral.com/jacksonville/stories/2001/01/22/daily 22.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 27, 2001.

Freightliner may lay off workers The Associated Press 1/27/01 2:31 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Freightliner said Friday it probably will cut production of its tractor-trailers, a move that could force the layoff of 800 to 1,000 employees.

Debi Nicholson, spokeswoman for the Portland-based company, said the company likely will announce Monday how much production will be scaled back and how many jobs will be cut.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 27, 2001.

HOUSTON --- Franklin Corp., one of Mississippi's largest furniture manufacturers, laid off 10 percent of its staff Friday.

CEO and founder Hassell Franklin said he hopes the layoffs are temporary and the 160 workers can be recalled to work soon.

Franklin Corp. is Chickasaw County's largest employer, with 1,600 workers before the layoff on a 70-acre site with more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space.

http://www.djournal.com/djournal/site/articles/news/225925.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 27, 2001.

Jan. 27, 2001 - Colorado technology companies have announced layoffs of more than 1,700 workers so far this month - a figure likely to grow by several hundred if some large employers follow through with reported plans to cut their staffs.

The state's ranks of newly unemployed technology workers grew Friday when Arapahoe County-based Convergent Communications laid off 72 workers in Colorado and 88 elsewhere.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz0127b.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 27, 2001.

Local Company Downsizes; 70 People Lose Jobs Intellinex Lays Off 200 Nationwide

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/stories/news-20010128-161718.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 28, 2001.

January 28, 2001 MyPrimeTime. 10% layoffs

January 28, 2001 Liquidation.com laid off 18 employees, about 25%.

January 28, 2001 Financialprinter.com closing its doors immediately.

January 28, 2001 AskMe.com 6 layoffs bringing the total to 53

January 28, 2001 Network Commerce laid off 145 people and shut down ShopNow.com.

January 28, 2001 iCopyright.com laid off 44 people.

January 28, 2001 Avenue A fired between 60 and 70 employees -- 15%

January 28, 2001 Telenisus.com laid off 25%.

January 28, 2001 Company: AtYourBusiness.com laid off about 17%

January 28, 2001 Icebox.com laid-off 11 people.

January 28, 2001 MarchFirst laid off 550.

January 28, 2001 ISP Excite@Home laid off 250 people --8%.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 28, 2001.

It looks like its going to be official: Daimler Chrysler going to lay off up to 25,000 employees.

Through October, there were about 33,000 layoffs per month. In November it took a slight jump to 44,000 layoffs. It jumped to 133,000 announced layoffs in the MONTH of December. Now Fox News says that there were 100,000 layoffs announced LAST WEEK!

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 29, 2001.

LONDON (CNNfn) - Dutch financial services powerhouse ING Group is reportedly set to cut 1,100 jobs from its non-U.S. investment banking operations.

Most of the job cuts by ING, one of the world's largest financial services companies, are expected to fall in the City of London, the Financial Times reported Monday.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 29, 2001.

Masassas, Virginia: Computer School Closes, May File for Bankruptcy

(nearly 1900 jobs nationwide at risk)

"Computer Learning Centers...suspended classes this week at all 25 of its campuses and may file for bankruptcy...the schools teach computer programming and network engineering to nearly 10,000 students across the country..."

via Associated Press, 26 Jan 2001

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), January 29, 2001.

January 29, 2001 Xerox laying off 4000 employees. Don't know if this is old news or a new round of layoffs announced on news.

January 29, 2001 Hewlett Packard. 2% of workforce.

January 29, 2001 Convergent. 22% of workforce.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 29, 2001.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Struggling Web site Latino.com has fired most of its staff last week and now only the two founders, CEO Lavonne Luquis and Max Ramirez, remain.

Latino.com provides news, entertainment and other online content about Hispanic-focused products.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 29, 2001.

1/29/01 1:58 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. is closing its Go.com Web site and folding its money-draining Internet effort back into the parent company -- moves that will result in 400 layoffs, the company said Monday.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 29, 2001.

Jauary 29, 2001 Amazon.com may be laying off 20%.

January 29, 2001 Buzzsaw.com laid off 40 employees and shut down operations in Europe and Asia, representing about 15% of the workforce.

January 29, 2001 Concrete Media laid off between 30% to 50%.

January 29, 2001 Escalate.com laid off 30.

January 29, 2001 fusionOne fired 27 employees -- about 10%.

January 29, 2001 507media.com may be closing.

January 29, 2001 alerts.com laid off about one-third.

January 29, 2001 OnlineInsight.com may have laid off half of their employees. 25 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 29, 2001.

January 30, 2001 Office Max closing 50 stores. Only going to open 25 new stores in 2001 instead of planned 50 new stores. Unknown number of employees affected.

This is only about 2 weeks after Office Depot announced closing of, I think, 70 stores.

January 30, 2001 Vlasic Pickles filed for chapter 11. Unknown number of employees.

January 30, 2001 General Motors will close at least 2 plants each week in February. This would be an extension from previous temporary layoffs announced for January.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 30, 2001.

NORTH BALTIMORE -- About 136 workers at North Baltimore's Budd Co. are on layoff thanks to the slowdown in the automotive industry.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 30, 2001.

CRYSTAL RIVER -- Florida Power began laying off employees at its Crystal River energy complex on Monday, marking the first significant changes since the utility was bought out in August 1999.

Several employees reported as many as 80 jobs were cut, but company officials said that figure wasn't accurate.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 30, 2001.

Tuesday, January 30, 2001; Page E02

Xerox said it will cut 4,000 jobs in the first quarter and fire more workers later in the year after the copier company had its second consecutive loss in the fourth quarter. The loss from operations was $198 million, compared with net income of $294 million a year earlier. Sales fell 13 percent, to $4.83 billion.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 30, 2001.

OTTAWA -- JDS Uniphase Corp. is cutting about 700 manufacturing jobs from its Ottawa operation, the latest sign that the telecommunications industry may be slowing down after its torrid growth in the past few years.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/ROB/20010130/RJDSS.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 30, 2001.

January 30, 2001 VersaPoint firing 2/3s of its workforce.

January 30, 2001 Medscape reducing its staff. Unknown number of employees.

I mentioned above that Office Max was closing 50 stores but didn't have number of employees. The news announced today it will be 1200 employees.

January 30, 2001 West Point Stevens, America's biggest maker of bedding & bath towels, is closing a South Carolina factory and cutting 468 jobs, about 2.8% of its work force

GE Chairman Jack Welch has said there would be "significant" job cuts coming in the near future. These layoffs may be in the range of 60,000 to 70,000, a near record. GE already has slashed 24,000 of that amount by closing last month its retail chain Montgomery Ward.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 30, 2001.

The contractor managing the Hanford Nuclear Reservation for the U.S. Department of Energy said yesterday that it will lay off as many as 300 people by April to cut costs and increase efficiency.

The layoffs will come from Fluor Hanford's work force of 4,300, said Dom Sansotta, director of human resources. The DOE and its contractors employ about 11,000 people there

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 30, 2001.

Jan. 30, 2001, 4:15PM

El Paso Energy cuts 3,285 jobs By MICHAEL DAVIS Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle

One day after El Paso Energy Corp. closed its $24 billion deal to buy Coastal Corp., the company said today it is shedding 3,285 jobs, 750 in Houston, as a result of the merger.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

January 30, 2001 For the life of me, I memorized the name of America's biggest large truck builder when I read about them at work and now I can't remember their name. Oh well. They are laying off 1085.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

January 30, 2001 CreSenda.com may be shutting down on 1/31/01. Apparently this month's paychecks haven't arrived yet either...

January 30, 2001 Rumor that Motorola employees may be cutting 15% costs which they so far deny include layoffs.

January 30, 2001 I'm not sure if this is a new round of layoffs or old news. Gateway is laying off around 10% of workforce

January 30, 2001 cdnow.com's sales force may be laid off today

January 30, 2001 may be announcing layoffs (20-35%) this Friday.

January 30, 2001 Worldres.com may let 80 go Wednesday.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

Online advertising firm Beyond Interactive, a Grey Global Group company, has cut a second round of employees, again citing the softness in online ad spending.

The Ann Arbor-based firm said it terminated 30 percent of its workforce, or about 100 positions. Those cuts were announced on Friday and were effective immediately.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

January 31, 2001 I mentioned somewhere above that Amazon.com may be close to laying off up to 20% of its workforce. It is now official. They are laying off about 15%.

The truck building company that I couldn't remember their name? Its Freightliner.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

January 31, 2001 Channell Corporation. Laying off about 10%

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

January 20, 2001 EGL Inc. laid off 300 employees this month. The new lay-offs are over and above the 100 or so jobs that the company had already planned to cut due to the Circle merger.

January 20, 2001 International Truck and Engine Corp. plans to lay off about 500 workers in March. About 500 workers were laid off in November. Production at the plant was halted between Dec. 18 and Jan. 2 for the holidays, and then one of the plant's production lines was shut down for two weeks in January, temporarily idling 600 workers.

January 25, 2001 Peterbilt Motors laid off up to 80 workers and one of its local suppliers shut down operations. A Texas Workforce Commission said Peterbilt has not provided a notice about layoffs as required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act. Companies employing more than 100 workers must give a 90-day notice of layoffs involving more than 50 employees.

January 25, 2001 Because of Peterbilt's actions, supplier Trim Systems announced that it will close its Denton plant, putting 97 workers out of a job.

January 20, 2001 ANC Rental Corp. laid off about 100 employees at its Fort Lauderdale headquarters

January 20, 2001 More than 80 employees could be laid off at fast-growing Infonxx Corp., which is closing its Bethlehem-area call center to make room for expansion of its corporate headquarters.

January 25, 2001 Standard Register plans to lay off 2,400 workers or 30% of its work force.

January 23, 2001 Florida Power & Light Co. has laid off 21 employees at the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant on Hutchinson Island.

January 20, 2001 The Power Exchange announced it would immediately lay off 15% of its approximately 200 employees and soon go out of business.

January 25, 2001 JB Oxford Holdings Inc. laid off 32 employees in administrative and support positions at its Los Angeles, Miami and New York offices. The reduction comprised 22% of the salaried workforce supporting the company's commission-based brokers and traders, and 12% of the total workforce.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

Australia Telstra subsidiary Network Design and Construction (NDC) today confirmed it was seeking to cut 250 jobs nationally.

The job losses come on top of about 400 positions shed in November last year.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

Dot-com layoff tracker breaks 50,000 mark

Wednesday, January 31, 2001, 12:24 By BARRY PARK, FAIRFAX IT A United States website set up to track the demise of the dot-com sector has recorded more than 50,000 job losses in the industry since December 1999.

The Standard's layoff tracker, which attempts to log current and longterm job losses announced by dot-com companies losing 10 or more employees, had hit 50,708 job losses as of today.

Today's announcement from Amazon.com, stating the company would shed 1300 employees, pushed the layoff tracker over the 50,000 mark.

However, the true figure may be higher. By its own admission, The Standard said it does not necessarily record all job losses in the dot-com sector.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 31, 2001.

January 23, 2001 Cape Fear Valley Health System will lay off between 150 and 250 employees

January 20, 2001 Acadio Corp. has laid off 21 employees at its headquarters in Seattle, the second layoff at the online education company in the past three months. In October, Acadio cut 28 of its 113 employees. The company now employs 63 people

January 23, 2001 Andalon.com in Amherst has laid off most of its 50 employees. About 40 workers were put on temporary layoff Monday. The company expects most of the layoffs will be temporary, with recalls coming in about two weeks.

January 19, 2001 Rockville's AtYourBusiness.com trimmed 17 percent of its staff. It fired eight of its 46 employees this week.

January 23, 2001 Avenue A is laying off about 70 employees, or 15% of its work force

January 24, 2001 Commerce One Incorporated: A day after forecasting an additional $100 million in sales for 2001, software maker Commerce One cut 150 workers, or about 4%.

January 19, 2001 Country music Web site CountryCool.com is shutting down. It had eight employees at its peak.

January 20, 2001 Drugstore.com laid off nearly a fourth of its work force. It is cutting 125 of the 550 positions it has. In October, the company cut 60 jobs.

January 20, 2001 EnCompass Globalization has shut down operations and laid off its entire staff of 50 people.

January 25, 2001 eSoft Incorporated closed its SmartDSL unit which forced eSoft to transfer 10 employees and cut the jobs of the rest in the unit,

January 24, 2001 GreatEntertaining.com Incorporated shut its e-doors on Jan. 29. Last October, the company booted its own working woman, then-CEO and co-founder Tanya Roberts, along with two-thirds of its staff.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 01, 2001.

Thursday, 1 February, 2001, 13:18 GMT Thousands of British steel jobs cut

The Anglo-Dutch steel company, Corus, is cutting six-thousand jobs in Britain.

Many of the redundancies are in areas of Wales and north-east England, where unemployment is already high. About three-thousand jobs will go on the manufacturing side of the business and a similar number in office and commercial operations. With only months to go before an expected general election, the company's handling of the move drew criticism from the British government.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1147000/1147984.s tm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 01, 2001.

February 1, 2001 Tenneco 450

February 1, 2001 Deutsch Bank 2300 over next 3 years.

February 1, 2001 Parlax 160.

February 1, 2001 SONICblue 400.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 01, 2001.

January 23, 2001 Hollywood Media Corporation/Hollywood.com is cutting its crew by more than 50%. Eight of 15 staffers in the Santa Monica office were laid off Wednesday, although others said the number was as high as 11.

Janaury 23, 2001 Home Director -- the former home-networking division that IBM spun off a year ago -- has laid off about 45 employees, including 15 at the Morrisville headquartersOGY

January 23, 2001 iCopyright.com Incorporated is cutting 44 positions in a restructuring plan.

January 23, 2001 Interspeed Incorporated said that it would cut 85% of its work force. The company had 53 workers on the payroll Dec. 31 and after the cuts will be left with nine.

January 23, 2001 Network Commerce/ShopNow.com Incorporated/The Hagg conducted its third round of layoffs in four months, announced plans to shut down its consumer shopping site and downgraded its earnings forecasts for the coming year. They will lay off 145.

January 19, 2001 TidePoint Corporation laid off two thirds of its workforce. It laid off 65 of its 94 employees.

January 19, 2001 USLaw.com Incorporated has laid off nine salespeople, about 28%.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 01, 2001.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — ShopKo Stores Inc. unveiled plans Wednesday to close 23 of its discount department stores in seven states as part of a reorganization that will cut 2,500 jobs.

http://www.kearneyhub.com/html/news5.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 01, 2001.

February 1, 2001

KNSD Channel 7/39 has laid off "about a dozen" employees at the Kearny Mesa-based station, including anchor Clark Anthony and reporter Tim Carr.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 01, 2001.

ON Semiconductor, a former Motorola division based in Phoenix, plans to lay off 350 sales and administrative employees, partly because of slowing chip sales.

The company said the layoffs would be spread throughout the worldwide operation but a proportionately higher number would come from Phoenix. The company would not elaborate on that.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

February 2, 2001 Buy.com laying off 25 and closing Canada operations.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

January 20, 2001 Net2000 Communications eliminated 90 jobs, or 10% of its work force, & delaying expansion in some cities to save cash.

January 25, 2001 Israeli e-publisher Versaware cutting 58 employees from its workforce.

January 20, 2001 VerticalNet Inc. is eliminating 150 jobs, or 8.3% of its work force

January 19, 2001 The Vignette Corporation is laying off 15% of its workers.

January 24, 2001 Vitts Network Incorporated will shut down Feb. 28 and has told its customers to find other service providers. Vitts, laid off 270 employees in late January

January 19, 2001 Wavo Corporation is laying off the bulk of its employees and selling its core technology and business and appears to be going out of business.

January 23, 2001 Viacom Corporation/MTV Networks/The Nashville Network. More than 100 Nashville employees of The National Network will lose their jobs as the cable television network continues to shift its base to New York. TNN, which was The Nashville Network until September, announced on Tuesday that 125 Nashville employees will be laid off over the next six months.

January 20, 2001 Crown Pacific Company eliminated a shift at its Bonners Ferry sawmill this week, laying off 50 of its 110 workers.

January 22, 2001 Globe Building Materials has filed for financial reorganization under federal bankruptcy laws, forcing the indefinite layoff of more than 100 employees. Employees were temporarily laid off in mid-December, but had been expected to return soon.

January 19, 2001 Grove Worldwide laid off 290 workers Friday as the troubled crane manufacturer continued to cut costs. They had more than 1,800 workers at the beginning of 2000 and laid off 510 during the year as it focused on its main business of making cranes.

January 22, 2001 Hillenbrand Industries Incorporated/Hill-Rom Company will reorganize its hospital bed unit, laying off 200 people. The job cuts at Hill-Rom Co. affect 3 percent of the unit's 6,500 employees.

January 25, 2001 The Hockey Co. is laying off about 300 workers, shutting a plant in Ontario,.

January 24, 2001 Imerys Pigment & Additives Group/Imerys Worldwide: About 88 jobs have been eliminated at two Twiggs County plants. 70 workers will be laid off, and the other positions are already vacant. Layoffs will begin Feb. 1 at both plants, which will reduce their production of paper-grade kaolin by a combined 800,000 tons per year, or about 10 percent of the total annual kaolin production in the United States.

January 20, 2001 Interlake Material Handling Incorporated laid off 115 workers at its Pontiac manufacturing plant Friday, about 20% of its work force.

January 20, 2001 Lifestyle Furnishings International/Universal Furniture will lay off 600 of its 900 workers in Morristown, Tenn., only 3 months after announcing plant closings in Marion & Goldsboro.

January 20, 2001 MultiLayer Technology Corporation will cut 600 jobs in Austin

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

2/2/01 9:40 AM ET

Netpliance (NPLI:Nasdaq - news) said Friday it would lay off 76 employees, approximately 54% of its staff, and narrow the company's focus to broadband infrastructure development.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

HELSINKI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Nokia said on Friday it would achieve substantial savings by shifting some of its handset manufacturing from the United States to lower-cost facilities in South Korea and Mexico and cutting 800 U.S. jobs.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

January 23, 2001 Universal Instruments Corporation. Just a month after giving its employees bonuses worth 25% of their salary will lay off 80 workers.

January 24, 2001 Valmet Inc.laying off 30 employees. The plant has been operating on a four- day work week since August. 98 employees continue to work at the plant.

January 19, 2001 Geneva Steel Incorporated, Just two weeks after emerging from bankruptcy, will lay off 85 of its 1,800 workers. Geneva will also cut some work hours at its steel plant from 40 hours a week to 30. Geneva has laid off 900 people since 1997.

January 22, 2001 Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan/PCS Phosphate has laid off 387 workers and has suspended phosphate fertilizer production at its north Florida plant. The jobs, represented about a third of the company's 1,002 employees.

January 25, 2001 Hungry Minds, the publisher of the "For Dummies" instructional books and Cliffs Notes, will lay off about 130 workers, or 19% of its employees, to cut costs.

January 24, 2001 Apex Department Stores, Rhode Island's last local department store chain, is closing its Warwick and Swansea stores and dramatically downsizing its flagship Pawtucket store. Apex will also close its Warwick tire center. The announcement by the 76-year-old, Pawtucket-based Apex comes less than three weeks after similar news from Ann & Hope, another local retailer that is closing four stores in Massachusetts and scaling back its two Rhode Island stores. Apex's 250 full-time, and 150 part-time employees were told about the company's plans. Most of the employees are losing their jobs, with only 20 to 30 being kept on for Apex's Internet business and home store in Pawtucket.

 January 25, 2001 SR Telecom has begun to lay off 125 workers

January 20, 2001 Triton Network Systems Incorporated laid off 10% of its work force this week. The company cut 30 employees, most of them in Orlando.

January 24, 2001 Norfolk Southern Corp. will eliminate 1,000 to 2,000 jobs over the next year and dispose of 12,000 surplus freight cars. The job reduction will be in addition to the layoffs and early retirements that affected 3,500 jobs last year and pared the company's payroll to 33,000

January 20, 2001 Yellow Corporation/Yellow Freight System Incorporation has permanently laid off about 75 salaried workers. Yellow Freight, one of the country's biggest trucking companies has temporarily furloughed about 1,000 hourly employees at terminals nationwide.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

February 2, 2001 Razorfish will lay off 35% of its 1800 person staff

February 2, 2001 Petopia called it quits today.

February 2, 2001 MVP.com officially closed down

February 2, 2001 Advantage.com closed.

February 2, 2002 MyFamily.com, may be giving employees the boot next week.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Janus Capital Corp said on Friday it plans to cut 468 customer support jobs -- 16 percent of its workforce -- in response to slowing demand for its products and increased automation of its services, in the latest sign that the company's fortunes have flagged.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 02, 2001.

February 4, 2001 Bridgestone/Firestone will cut the 7 day work week to 6 days at palnts in Decatur and Bloomington, Ill to slow production.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 03, 2001.

February 5, 2001 Boots laying off 1000. Closing some stores.

February 5, 2001 Daewoo closing plant for 3 weeks. Reduce inventory.

February Savera (perhaps wrong name or mispelled) laying off 77.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 05, 2001.

February 5, 2001 whole company was let go from Games.com may have laid off whole company and closed.

February 5, 2001 HomeBuilder.com laying off 60 employees April 1 and closing Dallas plant.

February 5, 2001 Dell may be about to layoff around 5,000

February 5, 2001 NeoPlanet laying off 30 to 35 people-about 33%.

February 5, 2001 Storerunner.com may lay-off at least 50% of their remaining employees.

February 5, 2001 CoolSavings.com layed off 10% of employees, about 1 month of cash left

February 5, 2002 Classmap.com may have failed to get new funding & may have fired everyone and will be closing next Wed.

Streetmail.com, after laying off 139 in January, announced in a meeting that they're closing their NY office.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 05, 2001.

February 6, 2001 Tecumseh Products Co. laid off 30 people. Found this out in an article about a female worker killed while crossing railroad tracks to get to her car after leaving work after receiving her layoff notice.

February 6, 2001 Janus Capital plans to cut 468 customer-support jobs. 16% of workforce.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 06, 2001.

February 5, 2001 eToys.com is laying off its remaining 293 employees

February 5, 2001 35% of Razorfish's 1800 person staff will be laid off. I posted this before as a maybe....but it is happening. About 500 people, 2 weeks severance.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 06, 2001.

February 6, 2001 Barnesandnoble.com may be making announcement tomorrow or so about layoffs.

February 6, 2001 Voter.com shut its doors today.

February 6, 2001 InfoSpace.com just laid off over 200 people -- around 20%. Many were from engineering and customer service.

February 6, 2001 Covad told its employees that they will not be getting any bonuses or raises this the year.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 06, 2001.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Online music retailer CDNOW Inc., a subsidiary of the Bertelsmann eCommerce Group, has cut its work force by 12 percent, laying off 55 employees who sold banner ads for the company's Web site.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 06, 2001.

January 31, 2001 Heilig-Meyers Company. 1000 employees. Struggling home-furnishings retailer Heilig-Meyers Co. will close 116 stores during the next three months. The move continues a downsizing in which the chain has reduced the number of its stores nationwide by half the past year. Heilig-Meyers, based in Richmond, Va. , will close 111 stores under the Heilig-Meyers banner, five under its the RoomStore name and two distribution centers within the next three months. Heilig-Meyers filed for bankruptcy protection in August and, in the fall, announced the closing of about 300 stores.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 07, 2001.

January 30, 2001 Scottsboro Aluminum will lay off 40 workers. The move come just a week after 14 workers laid off.

January 31, 2001 Alltel Corporation is in the process of laying off 400 workers. Alltel has also left another 400 jobs unfilled since October. Alltel has about 27,000 workers.

January 30, 2001 Convergent Communications dismissed 160 people, or 22% of its workers

January 30, 2001 New Global Telecom Incorporated laid off 40 or 25% of its workforce

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 07, 2001.

Keane Inc., which helps companies plan and manage their use of software, said it cut about 176 jobs and agreed to sell its help-desk business to an unnamed buyer for an undisclosed price to focus on consulting. The company also said it would report fourth- and first- quarter cash earnings, excluding amortization and goodwill, that match the average estimates of analysts surveyed by First Call/Thomson Financial. The cuts represent about 2 percent of the company's work force of 8,800,

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 07, 2001.

February 7, 2001 Verizon announced "cutbacks" which will involve unknown number of layoffs but probably in thousands.

February 7, 2001 Sunbeam entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Claims there will be no layoffs...........

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 07, 2001.

January 27, 2001 PhotoCircuits Corporation: Fayette County's top employer and one of the largest circuit board makers in North America laid off 175 employees Friday. Only 18 months ago, Photocircuits had 100 job openings. The company's home office plant in Glen Cove, N.Y., laid off about the same number of employees. The Peachtree City facility now employs slightly more than 1,000 people

January 26, 2001 Possis Medical Inc. cut 27 positions about 11%t of its work force

January 28, 2001 The Silgan Plastics Corp. will close in the coming months, phasing out 151 jobs as the plastic bottle manufacturer shuts its doors. The layoffs will begin in April.

January 30, 2001 WestPoint Stevens Inc., a leading maker of bedding and towels, said it would close a plant in Seneca, S.C., and cut 468 jobs. The cuts affect about 2.9% of the more than 16,000 people WestPoint employs.

February 1, 2001 Boston Herald/Community Newspapers Company. On the brink of closing the deal to buy Community Newspaper Co. from Fidelity Investments, the Boston Herald publisher moved swiftly yesterday to put the stamp on the new operation, laying off 36 CNC employees and replacing its top editor.

Janaury 31, 2001 Kennametal is eliminating 500 jobs, including 300 at its core metalworking business. 200 jobs had been eliminated at the company's J&L Industrial Supply, mostly through attrition. The 300 jobs at Kennametal will be eliminated as well through tight hiring restrictions.

January 26, 2001 Phelps Dodge Corporation notified employees that cuts of 2300 could be made if California energy crisis continues.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 07, 2001.

NEW YORK –– Online bookseller barnesandnoble.com reported a greater- than-expected fourth-quarter loss Wednesday, and announced that it would lay off 350 employees, or roughly 16 percent of its work force.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 08, 2001.

SANTA MONICA (Reuters) - Stamps.com Inc. (STMP.O), an Internet postage service, on Wednesday said it would slash 150 jobs in an effort to streamline operations and achieve profitability.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 08, 2001.

Jauary 26, 2001 Stanley Works/LaBounty Manufacturing Incorporated in Two Harbors will lay off 27 workers. It's the second round of cuts since operations were idled for one week in December. The payroll had already been reduced by 21 positions. Following the cuts, LaBounty will employ about 110 people in Two Harbors - about 30 percent fewer workers than in 2000.

January 26, 2001 Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. will phase out a manufacturing facility in Milaca that employs 93 people over the next three to four years. The first job cuts are to begin in July.

January 26, 2001 MII Incorporated: A second round of layoffs Monday at MII Inc.'s Lincoln store fixture plant cuts deeper into the plant's 150-employee work force than anytime in the last 18 years. MII laid off 37 employees two weeks ago and issued layoff notices to another 67 union workers this week, employees say. The layoffs will leave only 28 of the plant's 150 union workers still working. Those remaining will have a minimum 23 years seniority. MII mass produces wood-based cabinets, counters and shelving for such national retailers as Walgreen and Kroger, Pier One and Lowe's, Office Depot and Home Depot.

January 31, 2001  National-Standard Corp. laid off 37 hourly workers from its Lake Street plant. About 150 people remain employed in the plant which makes welding wire and specialty wire. About 30 positions have been eliminated from the corporate headquarters staff since August

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 08, 2001.

Kansas City

GST Steel Co., whose local ties date to the 19th century, will close as part of a bankruptcy reorganization, throwing 750 area employees out of work.

The shutdown of the former Armco plant in the Northeast area of Kansas City marks the area's largest single job loss since the economy began to lose steam late last year. By contrast, the closing of Montgomery Ward cost the area about 560 jobs.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 08, 2001.

February 8, 2001 Hasbro will lay off 850 instead of previously announced 550.

Mercury News Applied Materials Inc., the world's largest chip equipment maker, asked its U.S. employees to take most Fridays off without pay.

Applied is also reducing the number of temporary workers at its Austin manufacturing plant, freezing regular hiring and cutting salaries for top executives by 5% to 10%.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 08, 2001.

January 31, 2001 Hotel Corporation of America/Fripp Island, bought earlier this month for $50 million by Hotel Corporation of America, will close several shops and restaurants and lay off about 45 employees to renovate the resort.

January 30, 2001 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M)/Robinson Nugent will lay off 35 of the company's 100 New Albany workers.

January 26, 2001 Comfort Built announced plans to move part of its operation to North Carolina, resulting in the layoff of about 40 of its 75 employees in Brookings.

January 26, 2001 Fleming Companies Incorporated/Rainbow Foods has laid off 48 employees - about 14% of the work force - at its warehouse in Minneapolis.

January 30, 2001 Franklin Corp., Chickasaw County's largest employer and one of the major furniture manufacturing facilities in Mississippi, has laid off 10 percent of its employees.

January 29, 2001 Classic Kitchens and Cabinets Limited/Heritage Custom Kitchens. On Friday, Jan. 19, a plant official announced they would close. A few miles east, in Goodville, a plant official at Rutt Custom Cabinetry made a similar disturbing annnouncement. The sudden and unexpected closings by Classic Kitchens, LLC, which operates both businesses, cost 589 people their jobs. Heritage Custom Kitchens and Rutt Custom Cabinetry had been among the area's biggest cabinet makers.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 08, 2001.

February 9, 2001 Motorola preparing to cut 13,000 jobs

February 9, 2001 Metricom out of money. Preparing to cut unknown number of jobs.

February 9, 2001 Electrolux poor profits. May have to slash jobs.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 09, 2001.

February 9, 2001 IUMA.com (Internet Underground Music Archive) closed.

February 9, 2001 Vicinity may be laying off half of their staff in the next week. Funny thing

February 9, 2001 Yahoo.com is about to lay off 15%...

February 9, 2001 Utility.com fired half its staff, may be closing.

February 9, 2001 MuseumCompany.com may be laying off again.

February 9, 2001 Siebel Systems managers have been asked to cut costs 15% across the board. Next week (the 16th) may be serious.

February 9, 2001 HotLinks.com may be out of money.

February 9, 2001 Xdrive may be layig off today or tomorrow...

February 9, 2001 Beyondwork.com may be laying off shortly.

February 9, 2001 Infospace.com may be laying off 20% to 30%...

February 9, 2001 eHow.com may have been laid off everyone and closed.

February 9, 2001 MagicBeanstalk.com are laying off around 15%...

February 9, 2001 Icebox.com closing their doors today.

February 9, 2001 Motley Fool will may layoff 25% this week or next --

February 9, 2001 Stamps cut workfoce by 70%, employees down to 80.

February 9, 2001 RealNetworks may lay off around 10% shortly.

February 9, 2001 Siemens laying off some employees shortly.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 09, 2001.

Although Westford, Mass.-based test instrument and software company GenRad Inc. saw growth in the last quarter of 2000, the company is taking what it calls aggressive action to sustain revenue and earnings, including a 10 percent workforce reduction.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 09, 2001.

February 9, 2001 Electrolux. Mentioned earlier they may have to cut workforce. News reported it will be 2000 employees.

February 9, 2001 Dell Computer laid off temporary employees. Denying reports they will be laying off 3000 employees.

February 9, 2001 Delphi Automotives. This company is confusing. They've laid off employees temporarily for a number of weeks. Now report says they are idleling 3700 employees next week. I guess this must be an extention of their previous "temporary" layoffs and will still be only "temporary."

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 09, 2001.

February 1, 2001 Escrow.com Inc. cut its work force by 30 full-time, part-time and contract employees.

January 31, 2001 F5 Networks laid off 100 people, 17%.

January 26, 2001 FundsXpress Inc. fired 30

January 26, 2001 Handtech.com is trimming 18 % of its staff, or about 17 jobs.

January 31, 2001 Ibooks.com's eliminated 77 full-time and 6 part-time positions. 40 remain.

January 31, 2001 IronBridge Networks laid off all but 20 of its 190 employees

Source: Boston Globe - January 31, 2001

January 30, 2001 NetSpeak Corp. has laid off 29 people

January 30, 2001 OnAir Streaming Networks laid off 50 workers.

January 30, 2001 RealAge Networks Inc. laid off nine employees & now has 27 employees

January 31, 2001 Terra Lycos Tuesday eliminated 24 middle-management positions

January 27, 2001 UrbanMedia Communications, which acknowledged earlier it was laying off half its work force, has gone the rest of the way, laying off its 239 employees in metro Atlanta and shutting its doors.

January 26, 2001 The Webvan Group, one of last remaining online grocers laying off 150 employees & canceling planned expansions into Baltimore-Washington & northern New Jersey.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 09, 2001.

February 9, 2001 Motorola Inc. announced its third round of layoffs in the past three months today, saying 4,000 semiconductor employees will lose their jobs this year.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 09, 2001.

January 30, 2001 Department of Energy/Fluor Hanford plans to lay off up to 300 of its core employees and an undetermined number of auxiliary workers by April.

January 31, 2001 Alerts.com laid off 20 employees. The layoffs the number of employees from about 80 to about 60.

January 26, 2001 Attachmate.com Incorporated laid off between 50 and 100 employees

January 31, 2001 CarsDirect.com Incorporated/Greenpoint.com bought rival Greenlight which will essentially go out of business and most, if not all, of its remaining 75 employees in Livermore will lose their jobs.

January 30, 2001 Bertelsmann AG/CDNow eliminated CDnow's advertising sales force and is cutting 55 jobs, or 12%.

January 30, 2001 CompuBank cut almost 10% of its full-time staff. Contract and temporary workers also were laid off.

January 31, 2001 Epinions, an online product review site that became one of the most celebrated Internet start-ups, laid off 24 people, or about a quarter of its staff.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 10, 2001.

2/10/01 1:25 PM

MONROE, La. (AP) -- CenturyTel Inc. has laid off 85 employees since Jan. 16, but no further cuts are planned, a company official says.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 10, 2001.

Found in Wisconsin Newspaper. These are not layoffs that would be national news. It makes you wonder how many "local" layoffs of a few dozen or few hundred are occurring in every state that we don't hear about.

Plus, this shows that the "downturn" is affecting small and even ma-&-pa companies.

February 11, 2001 Northern Engraving Corporation gave its state-required 60 notice of for closing its plant. It expects to be closed by April 9st. It employes 130.

February 11, 2001 Wisconsin Porcelain Company (ceramic insulators) laying off 82 workers.

February 11, 2001 Point Sporting Goods in Stevens Point, Wi. closing with 86 employees.

February 11, 2001 Eagle knitting Mills, Inc. closig plants in Shawano and Kenosha, Wisconsin. 40 Employees.

February 11, 2001 Briggs & Stratton in Milwaukee laying off 10.

February 11, 2001 Stoughton Trailers, Inc., the largest employer in Dane County, Wis., had expected to shut down a number of operations as of January 2nd but new orders gave it a little time. But only postponed layoffs until last week (early February). It is laying off as may as 589 woerks at 6 plants in Stoughton, Evansvill, and Brodhead. It has 800 remaining employees.

February 11, 2001 Pinah's, a Waukesha, Wis. snack-foods maker laid off a few less than 88 employees it had originally planned but still laid off some.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 10, 2001.

Two East Coast specialty retailers annouced store closings.

February 11, 2001 Garden Botanika in Needham, Massachusetts is closing it's remaining 107 stores. Unknown number of employees. But, if each store has just 5 employees it would be about 500. 10 employees in each store would be over 1000, etc.

February 11, 2001 Lechters of New Jersey is closing 166 stores in America and fire 725 or 1/3rd of its workforce. It will still have 241 stores. Notice that this would be about 5 employees average per store? This again helps to estimate how many Garden Botanika mentioned prior to Lechters will be laying off.

Notice too, that a few months ago, the layoffs were about 10% of a company's workforce but lately it seems alot of companies are laying off around 25% to 50%?

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 10, 2001.

Image Wear West apparel firm, formerly known as Red Kap Industries laid-off 29 employees. 200 people will remain on the job. VF Corp., Image Wear West's parent firm based in Greensboro, N.C., is the largest apparel manufacturer in the world.

January 27, 2001 CTS laid off 27 production employees at the Elkhart plant where throttle position sensors are the primary product. The sensors are used in fuel-injected engines to regulate the proper air-fuel mixture.

January 29, 2001 Twenty workers making automotive parts have been laid off at Federal Mogul Sintered Products laid off 20 workers making automotive parts. About 10%

January 27, 2001 Kenworth Truck Co. for the 2nd time in 6 months, is eliminating a big chunk of its work force laying off 135 workers at its Chillicothe plant, where the company makes cabs and assembles frames for heavy-duty trucks. The layoffs, which take effect Feb. 26, come on top of 500 laid off in September and drop the plant's work force to 1,000.

January 26, 2001 Continental Carbon Co. closed its research/development plant laying off 17

January 30, 2001 The PolyOne Corporation, a chemical maker created last year by the merger of the M. A. Hanna Company and the Geon Company, will close four plants and lay off 65

January 31, 2001 Bank One Corp. is cutting 42 jobs in Columbus. The Chicago-based bank previously announced it was eliminating 93 positions in mortgage servicing in Columbus

January 30, 2001 Fireman's Fund insurance laid off 68 people at its Earth City office, and 197 more jobs will be phased out as the insurer eliminates a line of auto coverage.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 11, 2001.

Fleetwood Motor Homes - Chico, CA, is closing the plant and laying off 350 workers. Mercury-Register, February 9, 2001

-- reader (reader@~~~~.bog), February 11, 2001.

February 11, 2001

Chicago's Art.com is on the block. The online art merchant's parent, Getty Images Inc., told investors last week that it's exploring selling the $20-million business and plans to cut its staff by 40%, or about 50 people, over the next 60 days.

Getty, based in Seattle, purchased Art.com from Chicago entrepreneur William Lederer for $115 million.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 11, 2001.

February 12, 2001 Former International Paper mill cutting 200 workers. The remaining 600 are taking big pay cuts

The 107-year-old mill's second new owner in less than a year has offered remaining employees severe pay cuts from $20 down to $5 to $6. The new job offers also include reduced vacation time & other benefits.

The news means another blow to the city's general fund, which has been struggling from lost tax revenue after hundreds of jobs left the city last year. Ohio Casualty has relocated 800 jobs from Hamilton since 1999. International Paper Co in June, announced plans to close the company's Knightsbridge complex and eliminate 350 jobs, but kept the B Street mill open. Smart Paper purchased the mill earlier this year.

The new job losses and pay cuts mean “more turmoil for Hamilton,” Mr. Holzberger said. “I feel very bad for those who lost their jobs or got a pay reduction, but at least they're keeping over 75 percent of the work forces,” he said. “If the mill had closed entirely, it would have been catastrophic.”

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 12, 2001.

February 12, 2001 Business.com may be laying off today or tomorrow.

February 12, 2001 idealab! may cut 20% of the workforce from Cooking.com

February 12, 2001 WebMD.com may close come May 1.

February 12, 2001 SalonLinx.com may have offered 80% salary cuts.

February 12, 2001 Internet.com may reduce their staffs by 10-40%

February 12, 2001 JuniorNet.com may close as early as this Tuesday.

February 12, 2001 iHigh.com may lay off everyone tomorrow...

February 12, 2001 Quokka Sports may lay off 200

February 12, 2001 Imagine Media may lay off significant number Tuesday.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 12, 2001.

February 13, 2001 Steelcase (Colorado) closing plant. Laying off 1200.

February 13, 2001 Ford plant shutting night shift. Laying off 500.

February 13, 2001 British Telecom laying off 20% of online division.

February 13, 2001 Pru's (England?) laying off 2000.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 13, 2001.

February 2, 2001 Amerijet International laying off about 75 employees -- or 15%

February 2, 2001 First American Corporation/Data Trace Information laying off about 60 out of 100 over the next eight months as the work they perform is shipped overseas to save money.

February 2, 2001 Deutsche Bank stated that 500 jobs would be lost in NY, 500 in London, & 1,400 in Frankfurt. Deutsche laid off 5,500 people in 1999 when it bought Bankers Trust.

February 2, 2001 Cambridge Incubator has restructured, reducing its core team from 50 to 20.

February 2, 2001 Collabware Incorporated: Hailed little more than a year ago as eastern Idaho's ticket to the information technology big leagues, Collabware has laid off its 21 employees HIGH TECHNOLOGY

February 2, 2001 Dantis Inc has dismissed 50 of its 190 employees

February 2, 2001 Epoch Internet Incorporated laid off 50 employees Thursday. The layoffs reduce Epoch's work force to about 200 people, the company said.

February 2, 2001 Gilat Communications has recently fired 50 of its employees, half of them in Israel and half in the United States.

February 2, 2001 XOR Inc. cut staff between 10 and 15% company wide,

February 2, 2001 Zefer Corp., of Boston, said it has laid off 120 people, or about 15%

February 2, 2001 Eaton Corp. is eliminating 40 jobs at its Engine Components Division here through retirement incentives to avoid laying off new workers.

February 2, 2001 Lydall Inc., will lay off 58 employees as it closes the 121-year-old Lydall & Foulds cardboard-making factory in Manchester, Conn.

February 2, 2001 Pentair Incorporated laid off about 400 people through January.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), February 13, 2001.

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Please post here List of Layoffs IV

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), February 13, 2001.