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The legislatively approved budget was based on the elimination of approximately 500 positions, ... The department has carried a large number of these positions without filling them, so the actual harm to individuals will be much less than 500 layoffs. About 100 of these positions are currently occupied.

Brian Johnston

Unlike retail, there are no layoffs. It's hard to find qualified people.

Raul Roges

In spite of the layoffs at MT Picture Display, we're seeing some positive things in the Elmira area.

Joe Kozlowski

There is no doubt that there will be layoffs of public safety employees.

Charles Leonard

North Carolina is still reeling from mass layoffs despite better-than-average job growth.

David Buchholz

We are always on the hunt for some really good people with some good ideas, ... There will be some layoffs because there are some synergies and there will be people doing the same thing.

Carol Bartz

Hospitals have made enormous efforts in trying to more efficiently and effectively deliver care, and hospitals have also made painful decisions. Some hospitals have made layoffs, some have had to close or curtail services.

Andrew Wigglesworth

We at the current time don't have any layoffs planned.

Roxanne Taylor

We're currently evaluating the situation. We expect to make some layoffs.

Lawrence Gordon

They are getting better on tools and things, and they can afford the best and the brightest. They're one of the few companies that has not had layoffs.

Laura Didio

The hope is we won't have to do any layoffs, and we'll be fully operational through July 1.

Bill Chapman

We are seeing on one side fewer layoffs, and on the other side we are seeing a pickup in hiring.

Lynn Reaser

We don't anticipate a major staff reduction in the near future. That does not mean there will not be any layoffs.

Jim Fisher

As of now, we don't have any plans for layoffs.

David Pleiss

We don't see (layoffs) -- at least not in the near term. And that's what we're telling them.

David Osburn

Today, if you ask, you may be the next out the door in the next layoffs.

Jennifer Openshaw

It seems to be working. If you hadn't have had manufacturing layoffs, everything else tends to be positive.

William Mezger

We're going to want to minimize pay cuts and minimize layoffs.

Mark Mcclain

We're going to eliminate 3,000 management positions, as we've always said, and those are not going to necessarily be layoffs.

Jay Grossman

We are looking at possible future layoffs.

David Ogden

Some of the mainstays who were in our department are no longer there because of the layoffs. They went someplace else to find a job.

Dan Cappon

There will be 10 additional layoffs in the next 45 days.

Beth Manning

I hope there is a huge political payment for this. The Chinese industry is going to cream the U.S. producers, and the administration knows it. There are going to be layoffs; there are going to be plant closures.

Roger Schagrin

Wages have been outpacing inflation. However, we're also seeing more layoffs this year than we did last year, so there is a lot of competition out there.

Mario Derose

This is an announcement improving the organization. This is not an announcement about future plant closings or layoffs.

Jerry Buckley

We said from the beginning that we would revisit the layoffs in three to six months.

Everton Moore

This is the first wave of layoffs. The second wave -- I don't know when that would be -- may be a much smaller amount of people.

Elina Kazan