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But it said it was planning corporate layoffs to stem the bleeding and reduce costs by up to $4 million. Potbelly had 406 company-owned units and 46 franchised...
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/potbelly-facing-eviction-its-headquarters
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Potbelly is facing eviction from its headquarters
Potbelly Corp. is at risk of being evicted from its headquarters in downtown Chicago, after failing to pay more than $800,000 in rent and other fees, according to court documents.
Potbelly’s landlord, 111 N. Canal Realty Holdco, LLC, has taken the struggling sandwich chain to court, seeking to evict the company from its 27,000 square feet on the building’s eighth floor and to force it to pay its back rent and legal fees, according to documents filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County last month.
The case is set for a status conference on Dec. 4, plaintiff’s attorney Eric Kaplan said. By then, Kaplan said he expects Potbelly will owe close to $900,000.
A Potbelly representative did not respond to a Restaurant Business request for comment on the eviction case.
But, in court documents, Potbelly cited several reasons why it should not be kicked out of its headquarters.
First, the chain noted an eviction moratorium in Chicago, which has repeatedly been extended by Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker.
“No eviction order entered herein against Potbelly could be enforced unless plaintiff proves that Potbelly poses a ‘direct threat to the health and safety of other tenants, an immediate and severe risk to property or [that Potbelly is in] violation of any applicable building code, health ordinance or similar regulation,’” Potbelly’s attorney wrote.
The chain said it did not foresee the pandemic when it entered into its lease in Sept. 2014.
Potbelly said it has been unable to use its headquarters due to federal, state and local orders, as well as government work-from-home advisories.
“Potbelly has not been able to use the space as intended or maintain normal business operations, including at its various restaurant locations,” the chain said in court documents.
Potbelly has seen massive traffic and sales declines amid the pandemic, especially as downtown office workers continue to work from home. In May, the fast casual said it might need to permanently shutter up to 100 stores. It stepped back from that projection earlier this month, revising that number down to 25 to 30 permanent closures.
But it said it was planning corporate layoffs to stem the bleeding and reduce costs by up to $4 million.
Potbelly had 406 company-owned units and 46 franchised ones at the end of Q3, down from 427 corporate units and 45 franchised stores the previous year.
Same-store sales for Q3 fell 21%. They rose a bit through October, declining 19.4%, the chain said. In Q2, Potbelly’s same-store sales were down 41.5%.
Late last week, the chain’s chief legal officer and chief people officer, who had been Potbelly for nearly 14 years, resigned.
In June, it was rumored that Potbelly would declare bankruptcy to get out of some of its leases and that it had hired restructuring consultants to aid in the process.
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Anchorage School District projects $15 million loss
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/11/17/anchorage-school-district-projects-15-million-loss-due-to-lowered-student-enrollment/
“We did unfortunately have to make some layoffs this morning, I remember the last time this happened I said to myself, 'Thank God we won't have to do...
https://www.abc57.com/news/berrien-county-businesses-react-to-second-wave-of-ordered-closures
"Today our organizing efforts paid off and county commissioners voted to stop layoffs of library workers," said Ali Fuhrman, president of AFSCME Local 2822,...
https://www.startribune.com/hennepin-county-board-amends-proposed-2021-budget-to-reopen-8-libraries-next-year/573096071/
In September, the Mayor directed City departments to reduce expenditures by 3%, evaluate layoffs, work with the City's Labor Partners to renegotiate salary...
https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/budget-advocates/20756-los-angeles-700-million-budget-deficit
Oregon's unemployment rate falls to 6.9%, but coronavirus 'freeze' could bring fresh layoffs. Updated 10:31 AM; Today 10:31 AM. Facebook Share. Twitter Share.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/11/oregons-unemployment-rate-falls-to-69-but-coronavirus-freeze-could-bring-fresh-layoffs.html
Nov 17, 2020. Hitachi Vantara has confirmed recent layoffs, and multiple c-suite executives have...
https://www.channele2e.com/business/talent/hitachi-vantara-layoffs-ceo-plan/
Wabash Valley says it expects to begin layoffs on January 15 and should be completed by March 19. The company says there is no union representation at the...
https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/42918522/wabash-manufacturing-to-close-kosciusko-county-plant
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Wabash Manufacturing to Close Kosciusko County Plant
A Kosciusko County manufacturing plant that produces commercial grade park benches, picnic tables, and trash receptacles says it is shutting down operations and will lay off about 80 employees.
Wabash Valley Manufacturing LLC in Silver Lake has notified the state it is closing the plant and will start layoffs in January.
The company says it is closing in large part due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations. The company says it serves park departments, amusement parks, and restaurants.
Wabash Valley says it expects to begin layoffs on January 15 and should be completed by March 19.
The company says there is no union representation at the plant, so there are also no bumping rights.
BART avoids station closures, weekend shutdowns but could lose up to 40% of staff
... its workforce by as much as 40% as the agency tries to avert layoffs, though it... mostly bus drivers, in January — the first mass layoff by a local transit agency.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-avoids-station-closures-weekend-shutdowns-15731440.php
St. Louis treasurer says alderman is stalling loan, will cause layoffs. Jacob Barker; Nov 16, 2020; 11 hrs ago; 0 · Get 70% off a subscription. St. Louis parking...
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-treasurer-says-alderman-is-stalling-loan-will-cause-layoffs/article_1dc5afc1-ab1e-5242-9b05-4fb90e062729.html
Blue-Collar Unions Fear Widespread Layoffs in Silicon Valley. Laid off cafeteria workers will lead a protest outside Verizon Media CEO's San Francisco house on...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vn9w/blue-collar-unions-fear-widespread-layoffs-in-silicon-valley
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Blue-Collar Unions Fear Widespread Layoffs in Silicon Valley
In September, 120 cafeteria workers and baristas who work at Yahoo's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California were laid off by their employer, a subcontractor called Eurest—stranding them without paychecks or health insurance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, dozens of those workers will protest outside the San Francisco home of the Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan, and drop off letters demanding an extension of their healthcare coverage and pay (Verizon Media owns Yahoo). Though these workers are technically not employed by Verizon Media, the decision to lay off the cafeteria workers was ultimately made by the company, which like most Silicon Valley tech companies contracts out its blue-collar labor.
"I want the engineers and people who made this decision to put themselves in our shoes," Alma Cardenas, one of the laid off baristas who helped organize Tuesday's protest and worked at the campus for six years until her termination in September, told Motherboard in Spanish. "I am a single mom who supports my two daughters, and my mother in Guadalajara. It's not fair for them to kick us out while they make billions of dollars. For them, what we make is nothing."
The action outside Gowrappan's house comes days after the labor campaign Silicon Valley Rising released a report about how the contracted shuttle bus drivers, janitors, cooks, and baristas at the world's largest tech companies have fared during the pandemic while white collar employees have been working from home. As the report explains, Google and Facebook committed early in the pandemic to paying and providing their unionized service workers health insurance—despite shutting down or limiting access to their corporate campuses. This agreement largely set the course for tech companies around Silicon Valley who followed suit and kept their workers on payroll.
But it's unclear how long this will last. In recent weeks, according to a SEIU United Service Workers West spokesperson, Oracle and Samsung have started terminating contracted union janitors. Lyft laid 63 contracted janitors via text message in September. In March and April, Tesla laid off roughly 280 contracted janitors and shuttle bus drivers, leaving many without health care. The impacts of these layoffs disproportionately affect Black and brown workers. According to the report, 63 percent of unionized tech service workers in Silicon Valley are either Black or Latinx. The numbers are highest in janitorial and cafeteria work. Meanwhile just four percent of Silicon Valley software developers are Black or Latinx.
These recent layoffs have translated into widespread fear among the 14,000 unionized service workers who serve Silicon Valley tech companies. According to the report, tech service workers worry that other companies could soon follow in the footsteps of Yahoo/Verizon Media.
"I’m worried about getting laid off. That fear is always there. You never know what's going to happen," Marcial Delgado, a single father of three kids, who has worked as a line cook at Nvidia's corporate campus in Santa Clara, California for the past 20 years, told Motherboard.
These fears are in part pacified by the fact that many of Silicon Valley's blue-collar tech workers have unionized in the first place. Since 2015, more than 9,000 blue-collar tech workers in Silicon Valley have unionized, according to the report. Last year, 2,300 Google cafeteria workers at campuses around Silicon Valley voted to form a union. In 2017, around 500 cafeteria workers at Facebook's Menlo Park offices unionized with Unite Here Local 19, and thousands of security guards at Facebook, Cisco and other tech companies voted to join SEIU United Service Workers West. An earlier wave of unionization in Silicon Valley organized by SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign in the 1990s brought some 5,000 tech industry janitors in the Silicon Valley under union contracts, according to the report.
Liliana Morales, a prep cook originally from Acapulco, Mexico who prepared sandwiches and salads for tech employees at Facebook's corporate offices for six years, said her working conditions drastically improved after workers unionized with Unite Here Local 19 in 2017. The union negotiated a five-year contract with her employer Flagship Facilities Services that included $4.75 per hour raises, health insurance, and a pension plan.
"Things are much better. The union fights for us. We have better wages in every department. Before we didn’t have health insurance but now we do," said Morales, who lives in East Palo Alto with her three kids and husband. "I make $22 an hour but it's still a struggle in this area because the rent has gotten so high over the past few years. It's difficult for our family. We have everything we need but we cannot save money or spend time with our family on vacation. It's just rent, food, and gasoline."
Many newly unionized workers, who were previously denied health insurance and pension plans, received substantial raises and medical and dental benefits. Union contracts for Silicon Valley security guards, cafeteria workers, and janitors in the tech industry cover 6,500 families and provide 12,000 workers access to healthcare, according to the Silicon Valley Rising report.
"We've been looking at tech service workers in Silicon Valley for several years," said Louise Auerhahn, the author of the new report and director of economic and workforce policy at Silicon Valley Rising, told Motherboard. "Our major finding has been that there's very strong occupational segregation in Silicon Valley. Black and Latinx and immigrant women do the majority of the physical work for tech companies but aren't actually employed by them. In recent years, many of those workers have been organizing and it's been very successful in lifting up the voices of contractors in Silicon Valley."
Meanwhile, many of the blue-collar tech workers who've already lost their jobs are facing the pandemic without healthcare and are on the verge of homelessness.
"When my daughters were little, we lived on the streets," Cardenas, the recently laid off Verizon-Yahoo barista who protested on Tuesday, told Motherboard. "The thing that terrifies me the most now is to have to live on the streets again when I can no longer pay my rent. I know lots of people [in Silicon Valley] who are living out of their cars right now."
There it is - 100% confirmed layoffs:
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The city also paused discussions of layoffs with staff bargaining bodies, and city manager Potter affirmed in his Monday letter that Napa would not seek...
https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/with-napa-civic-center-on-hold-city-looks-toward-refurbishing-existing-buildings/article_a070506c-1d85-5a1c-a814-cfe2a54c3e5e.html
This was due to widespread shutdowns and layoffs that made it virtually impossible to seek a new job, he said. After recording record lows in unemployment...
https://www.al.com/news/2020/11/work-requirement-for-alabama-unemployment-benefits-returning-in-2021.html
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/amended-n-y-warn-act-requires-advance-48628/
DAYTON, OH — Three medical facilities and three businesses in Ohio have announced layoffs so far this month. The Premier Health group has announced it is...
https://patch.com/ohio/across-oh/6-companies-announce-layoffs-other-changes-ohio
#news #AscenaRetailGroupNews #AscenaNews
6 Companies Announce Layoffs, Other Changes In Ohio
Three medical facilities in Ohio are transitioning some of their departments to another firm.
DAYTON, OH — Three medical facilities and three businesses in Ohio have announced layoffs so far this month.
The Premier Health group has announced it is shuttering its environmental and nutritional services departments at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, the Premier Health Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, and the Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy, according to filings with the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.
However, Premier Health said in filings that all impacted employees will be offered a job with another firm that will offer environmental and nutritional services to the impacted communities (Dayton, Middletown, Troy).
The Ascena Retail group filings suggest some employees will get extended time with the company before their layoffs become effective.
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Even when the pandemic forced widespread shutdowns, the real estate investment company, deemed an essential business, made it through without layoffs.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Hilltop-Residential-anticipates-growth-even-15711024.php
Steep budget cuts and layoffs could hit next year if students don't return to public school districts in 2021, McGowin said.
https://www.auroraadvertiser.net/news/20201111/enrollment-in-missouri-public-schools-declines-by-32
This reorg was completed in January and a big round of layoffs ensued. Blocks & Files would be unsurprised if Hitachi V sees a declining need for in-house...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/11/12/hitachi-vantara-leadership-team/
#news #HitachiVantraNews #HitachiVantaraNews
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The closures now coincide with several hundred layoffs at Detroit Medical Center, another Tenet owned property, which is expected to layoff more employees by...
https://www.dotmed.com/news/story/53079
DirecTV, Dish TV May Take Another Whack At Merger 11/12 ...
WarnerMedia is expecting layoffs, anywhere from 5% to 7% – around 1,200 to 1,750. Disneyland looks to make more theme parks layoffs, due to being unable...
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/357742/directv-dish-tv-may-take-another-whack-at-merger.html
#news #DishNews #DishNetworkNews
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The whole media ecosystem is rumbling.
First up, content providers on the move – which are making drastic changes.
WarnerMedia is expecting layoffs, anywhere from 5% to 7% – around 1,200 to 1,750. Disneyland looks to make more
theme parks layoffs, due to being unable to open in full or part.
On the merger front: There are talks about another possible merger attempt among two major satellite TV pay TV services – DirecTV and Dish Network. Now,
years after being a major force in pay TV, both have been witnessing hard times, due to lower subscribers.
Cable TV-centric companies like Comcast and Charter have had similar issues – those
companies also have had a still booming broadband business. Added to this are companies' efforts around mobile phone business.
DirecTV and Dish Network don’t sell any of the latter – and
that is a major problem for consumers looking for a full package of communications/interconnectitvy.
In 1992, both DirecTV and Dish Network first mulled a merger. The U.S. Justice Department put its kibosh on that deal, due to anti-trust concerns. But in 2020, it’s a different story,
what with strong OTT/CTV growth and virtual pay TV providers and/or services that provide programming apps.
Competition is everywhere. A DirecTV/Dish marriage is coming.
“Make no
mistake, whether it's a year from now, or 10 years from now. I believe it's inevitable those companies go together,” Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish said recently.
All of which may make
you wonder – why don't big cablers, Comcast, Charter, Altice, and the rest consider selling their pay TV video services – those traditional cable TV systems?
In part, because money is still
being made – in terms of revenue, growth in the average rate per month a users pays, and positive cash flow. And, more importantly, those companies continue to find way to package other services,
broadband, mobile with cable video subscription.
Still, at some point, one would believe traditional pay TV cable's interest in keeping these high-priced 200, 300 or more channel services aloft
will lose gravity. Perhaps if and when other related communications/media businesses grow, or cord-cutting ramps up from 5% to 8% per year to say 15%.
Does all this mean waiting for the cable TV
repair man finally gets cut as well?
Wayne Friedman is West Coast Editor of MediaPost. You can reach Wayne at wayne@mediapost.com.
WarnerMedia is expecting layoffs, anywhere from 5% to 7% – around 1,200 to 1,750. Disneyland looks to make more theme parks layoffs, due to being unable...
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/357742/directv-dish-tv-may-take-another-whack-at-merger.html
MMHD has not implemented any layoffs and has benefitted from receiving a $2.4 million PPP loan and roughly $4.5 million of CARES Act stimulus payments.
https://www.fitchratings.com/research/us-public-finance/fitch-rates-mayers-memorial-hospital-district-ca-bonds-bbb-outlook-stable-11-11-2020
Now and as winter sets in for good and the pandemic intensifies, more restrictions could mean more layoffs, and more hunger. Operations remain at the highest...
https://www.kpax.com/news/montana-news/montana-food-bank-foresees-challenges-for-winter
More than 70 percent of the port's workforce is now working remotely, and the port did not sustain layoffs, Zahn said. Pain from the pandemic has been both...
https://www.caller.com/story/news/2020/11/12/heres-how-much-cargo-has-sailed-through-port-corpus-christi/6263824002/
He confirmed that permanent layoffs are not expected. In October, Premier said it planned to reduce its workforce by about 1% to 2% this year, a local...
https://www.journal-news.com/news/just-in-premier-health-outsourcing-services-that-will-impact-600-jobs/WJLLAVM36JBOPM4PQTMEVCJHVM/
JOBLESS CLAIMS. The Maine Department of Labor recorded nearly 3,000 new unemployment claims, an increase linked to seasonal layoffs in restaurants,...
https://www.middletownpress.com/sports/article/Lab-group-to-broaden-testing-availability-in-15721175.php
It's unclear how long districts can keep digging into their savings, though school leaders say they are optimistic they'll pull through without any layoffs. "You can...
https://kimatv.com/news/local/how-covid-19-is-eating-away-millions-of-dollars-from-schools
While layoffs have been required since March, she said her staff has created a new, robust series of digital artistic programs to enrich people's lives and to help...
https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/mesa-s-cultural-scene-slowly-reawakening/article_d955a170-22c3-11eb-b385-5bfe687ea5c7.html
“Various union representatives have made appeals, demands and other messages of support for job preservation and opposition to layoffs, mostly through the...
https://balkaninsight.com/2020/11/12/bosnian-trade-unions-under-fire-as-covid-crisis-takes-toll-on-jobs/
Damir, a 47-year old journalist, recalled being “shocked” by his sudden dismissal from a Sarajevo-based media outlet at the beginning of April, not long after COVID-19 struck Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Damir had spent 25 years at the company, but under the termination agreement he and a number of other journalists signed, they gave up their right to severance pay.
More than 27,000 people were made jobless in Bosnia between March and the end of September, many as the result of the lockdown and ensuing economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Experts say the true figure is likely far higher given the number of people in Bosnia engaged ‘off the books’.
Trade unions argue they have fought to protect jobs, in some cases with success, but critics question this, saying they have failed to soften the blow from the pandemic.
“Various union representatives have made appeals, demands and other messages of support for job preservation and opposition to layoffs, mostly through the media, but this has had no visible impact and seemed more an attempt to demonstrate their relevance than actual concrete action in the interests of workers,” said Igor Gavran, a Sarajevo-based economic analyst.
The Bosnian economy is expected to shrink by some five per cent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, IMF. Bosnia’s Agency for Statistics says economic output contracted by a dramatic 9.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 year-on-year. Industrial production, exports, remittances and employment are falling too.
According to Bosnia’s Labour and Employment Agency, in August this year there were 427,593 unemployed people, or 5.1 percent more than in the same month of last year. The general unemployment rate is estimated at around 35 per cent.
Just over 330,000 of those without jobs live in the mainly Bosniak and Croat Federation and almost 90,000 in the mainly Serb-populated Republika Srpska, the two entities that make up post-war Bosnia. Roughly 7,000 were in the autonomous district of Brcko.
The sharp difference reflects the nature of the entities’ economies, with the Federation traditionally more industrial and the Republika Srpska more dependent on agriculture.
Union leaders deny doing too little to protect the jobs of those they represent.
“In all cases of violation of rights that are reported to us, we react and are not passive in any situation,” Mersiha Besirovic, head of the Union of Trade and Service Workers, told BIRN.
Selvedin Satorovic, president of the Alliance of Independent Trade Unions, which operates only in the Federation entity, also dismissed the criticism, arguing that his union had tabled a number of demands of the government.
These, he said, included the regular payment of wages and benefits for employees whose work was paused through no fault of their own and the intensification of labour inspections to prevent employers from exploiting the pandemic to lay off unwanted employees or cut salaries.
But he conceded that the Alliance of Independent Trade Unions had little clout in the private sector, where most of the layoffs occurred, but had proposed a general collective agreement to the government and the Federation’s Association of Employers over a year ago that would determine the basic rights of employees in all companies and would apply to all employers regardless of structure and capital. The response was underwhelming.
Besirovic’s union intervened when some employers tried to get workers to sign requests for unpaid leave and in other cases, she told BIRN. It also created a Viber support group connecting workers made redundant or facing violations of their rights with therapists.
“The Union is neither passive, nor do we calmly observe what is happening in our sector,” Besirovic said.
In the Republika Srpska, Ranka Misic, president of the Federation of Trade Unions, said unionised sectors had fared far better than those without trade union representation.
“In general, in the private sector, workers’ rights are violated where there is no union, and we do not have that kind of problem in places with an organised union,” Misic told BIRN.
She said there had been no layoffs or pay cuts in companies that continued working at full capacity, but conceded that the union’s efforts to secure higher wages due to increased workloads and more difficult working conditions had made little headway.
“We have different experiences, but I can say with full responsibility that labour rights are respected in places where there is a union,” Misic said.
Some independent experts, however, question the unions’ view of events.
While many companies did not actually make workers redundant, he said, they simply did not extend their fixed-term contracts, with the same effect. Some took the opportunity to get rid of workers whom it would be more difficult to fire in normal circumstances, mainly older workers.
With regards unions, Gavran said it was unclear whether they had failed to react, or they tried to do something and failed to have an effect.
“Certainly, the economy will continue to slow down and suffer damage, because it operates in abnormal circumstances with practically no help, except for demagogic and essentially false phrases about saving the economy by avoiding ‘lockdown’,” Gavran told BIRN.
Kesetovic, from Tuzla, said one problem was the lack of certainty over how long the crisis would last or how intense it might become. “Another problem is that the crisis is acting globally and, ultimately, that unions, the state and employers cannot find the best instruments and measures,” he told BIRN.
Also welcome this week was a Chicago Federation of Labor report listing a series of specific ways the city could chop $272 million in costs to avert layoffs and,...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/11/21560833/chicago-city-finances-budget-cfl-chicago-federation-labor-lori-lightfoot-editorial
Alsea cannot leave behind the controversy over the treatment of Starbucks workers in the midst of the pandemic, President AMLO goes against their practices.
https://www.explica.co/layoffs-at-starbucks-lead-to-criticism-of-amlo/
layoffs at Starbucks lead to criticism of AMLO
Alsea cannot leave behind the controversy over the treatment of Starbucks workers in the midst of the pandemic, President AMLO goes against their practices.
Alsea cannot leave behind the controversies over the treatment of workers in Starbucks, controversial in the midst of a health and economic crisis. This resulted in a brand crisis That caused the company to be a trend in social networks and that the criticism did not stop because the action was interpreted as an abuse in the middle of the pandemic. Social networks can be a determining factor for reputation, which, according to Llorente & Cuenca, is decisive in the tangible and intangible resources of the value of a brand.
The company reported a pact with its employees that consists of a reduction in the number of positions in their corporate spaces, which was not specifically a dismissal, but a kind of 30-day-off leave, without pay, similar to the Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) process that exists in Spain and that many companies implemented in that nation.
However, today the controversy renews its vigor, in the face of the words of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who not only accused of firing Mexicans amid the health crisis, but to contribute to Sí por México.
“Alsea began firing Starbucks employees during the Covid-19 pandemic without recognizing workers’ rights. Alsea “with such moral behavior” contributes money to Sí por México “.
“Deep down, these organizations defend corruption and privilege and that is why now they are launching against us. Why Alsea, who laid off workers in the Pandemic, gives money to Juntos for corruption. With the same money from the people they campaign against the people, ”he said in the morning.
And it is that during this week the Proceso magazine revealed that the organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) it handles the donations it receives with opacity, almost all from the Mexican business elite and which apparently do not agree with what it reports to the Tax Administration Service (SAT).
The media had access to the benefactors and their contributions, where it locates members of the Mexican Business Council (CMN), confirmed by the richest and most powerful businessmen in Mexico.
AUSTIN, TX — A pair of companies operating facilities in Austin have alerted to nearly 800 layoffs between them — with at least one round of furloughs blamed...
https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/nearly-800-layoffs-slated-two-austin-job-sites
Nearly 800 Layoffs Slated At Two Austin Job Sites
California-based Alorica and France-based Sodexo are laying off 712 and 80 jobs, respectively, at their local operations.
AUSTIN, TX — A pair of companies operating facilities in Austin have alerted to nearly 800 layoffs between them — with at least one round of furloughs blamed on corrosive economic effects of the coronavirus — as outlined in documents filed with state regulators.
Officials at Alorica, a California-based company providing outsourced customer service operations, alerted the Texas Workforce Commission of plans to permanently close its entire Austin site located at 7401 E. Ben White Blvd. by Dec. 31 — a move that will result in 712 job cuts. Patch requested correspondence sent to regulators in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, a federal labor law compelling companies with at least 100 workers to provide a 60-day advance notice of plant closings and layoffs.
In the correspondence, a vice president of the company said the affected workers are not represented by a union. So-called "bumping rights," whereby affected with seniority would be able to take a lower position from a co-worker to prevent being terminated do not exist given the closure of the entire operations in Austin, the VP explained.
Bumping rights do not exist, and employees are not unionized. Affected employees were notified on the same date as this letter of the Plant Closing and their respective termination dates. The chief local elected official was also notified on the date of this letter.
The company did not detail reasons for the layoffs in its correspondence with the Texas Worker Commission. Patch reached out to the company official alerting regulators to the layoffs, but a voicemail message was not immediately returned.
A second company named Sodexo — self-described on its website as a French food services and facilities management company headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux — also alerted to layoffs. In correspondence to the Texas Workforce Commission, the company blamed the economic impact spurred by the pandemic as the reason for imminent layoffs of 80 local workers.
"At this time, employees are being placed on, or have been placed on, temporary lay-off status, with only a few permanent separations associated with this crisis and business impact," a human resources official with the company wrote to state regulators. The company lists its operations as being housed at the University of Texas at Austin, 1701 Red River St.
The latest list of companies alerting to layoffs shows that Sodexo also plans to cut 177 jobs in El Paso, Texas.
"I thought we'd never get it," Liz Uihlein, an outspoken critic of COVID-19 restrictions, told Uline employees. "Well, Trump got it."
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"They slowed down during the pandemic, but they are really building back up.” In addition, layoffs appear to be leveling off."
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Golden Gate Bridge board considers raising tolls to avoid layoffs
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