The Oprah Winfrey created Dr. Phil show has been conducting layoffs and is slashing pay for everybody else. Reports indicate the show is the top rated, making $70-million USD per year, yet layoff whistleblowers say there’s been no reason given for the job and pay cuts.
California: After four years the British empire’s upscale snooty Tamarind of London shutdown their Newport Beach restaurant without warning. Local news says management refuses to comment. After 20 years, popular (reports say it was always packed during big games) Zeke’s Bar and Grill shutdown due to the lease not being renewed.
One of 29 Costa Rica Burger Kings going down.
Florida: Miami-Dade based Burger King calling it quits in Costa Rica, all 29 restaurants shutting down, 434 jobs lost!
Georgia: In Atlanta, ten restaurants suddenly shutdown! Here to Serve Restaurants shutdown its Prime, Strip, Noche, Twist, Smash Kitchen, Coast Seafood, Shucks Oyster and Wine Bar, and others. On top of that employee final paychecks are being issued without the automatic tax payments, meaning employees will have to pay the taxes themselves, AND not all employees will be getting their final pay because the company is broke!
Zebra Chip: What the Liberibacter bacteria does to your spud.
Idaho: The Idaho Education News has revealed that “Almost every district and charter in Idaho is out of compliance with state laws created to promote transparency in spending, contracts and long-term strategic planning.” Something we taxpayers in Bannock County have known about for decades! A disease affecting potatoes has been discovered in four farm fields in three counties. It’s called Zebra Chip (Liberibacter bacterium) and could put a damper on what was expected to be a good year for spud farmers. Zebra Chip first showed up in the Pacific Northwest in 2011, it makes a fresh potato look like it’s rotting on the inside. This bad news comes as the Big Idaho Potato (propaganda) Truck just returned to The Gem State after a costly ($700-thousand USD) multi-state tour.
Iowa: “Power management company” Eaton eliminating 71 jobs right after Thanksgiving. The revelation was made by employees who told local news media.
Massachusetts: Sporting goods retailer City Sports bankrupt busted. Administrators said their previous job cutting, I mean “cost cutting” was not enough to offset crashing sales (which they actually blame on the weather). They will now shutdown eight stores and try to sell the rest. If no buyer is found then the remaining 18 stores will shutdown as well.
Michigan: Waterford Regional Fire Department laying off 39 firefighters. If that’s not enough then they’ll shutdown Williams Lake Road fire station. This is what happens when your local administrators rely on Department of Homeland Security bribery, I mean federal grants to run your local services.
New York: For-profit prison medical Corizon Health shutting down in the Anna M. Kross Center prison and eliminating 1-thousand 147 healthcare jobs right after Xmas, due to loss of contract!
North Carolina: Nursery supplier BFN Operations eliminating 250 jobs due to Home Depot canceling their contract! Colony Theatres in North Raleigh shutting down before Xmas. The owners are consolidating resources so they can remodel their more popular movie theaters.
Texas: A-hole county administrators killed off Legacy Vintage Store in Williamson County with their Business Personal Property tax: “Why is it right for me to pay taxes on what I don’t own, just because I can?”-Melissa Fiero, pissed off cause the Business Personal Property tax would cost her $3,000 per year on top of all the other taxes and fees she pays
Idaho has a similar tax, and the dumb-head Right to Work (you over) state administrators can’t seem to understand why they have such a hard time attracting businesses.
Vermont: In Burlington, the South End Kitchen shutting down right before Xmas. The owners admitted they bit off more than they could chew when they opened the restaurant.
West Virginia: Patriot Coal up for sale, resulting in more than 2-thousand jobs gone, when you include the layoffs from the past few months! (according to local news reports that’s just in the state of West Virginy)
03 – 05 October 2015: No time “to properly manage the store.”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”