Layoffs are becoming the new norm in business, with companies feeling forced to cut staff to stay afloat even though it's never an easy decision.

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#Layoffs #CorporateDownsizing #BusinessPractices #Cutbacks #Redundancies

My latest #cartoon from the new @fbunational.bsky.social #firefighter magazine concerns those in power and their dangerous obsession with #cutbacks ... #politicians #teamtalk #politics

Ford 'doesn't know what he's talking about' when it comes to basket weaving, Indigenous artist says | CBC News A third-generation Indigenous basket maker is setting the record straight about his craft — it's a part of his culture, it's valuable, and artists can make a living off of it.

#🇨🇦 #CanadianValues?! #OntPoli #DougFord justified huge #Cutbacks in #OSAP by ridiculing #Art & declaring what's valid to #Study.
I'm in a #Policy #BA & call that #BusinessCentric #BS!
The #AffordibilityCrisis won't be solved by limiting #curiosity & depriving #Students! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#job #employee #boss #collar #fired #layoffs #cutbacks #A.I.

Just in case you didn't know what different parts of fighter jet are called: - Medicare cuts - Legal services cuts - Food stamp cuts - School lunch cuts - Welfare cuts - Education cuts - Job opportunity cuts - Social security cuts - Student loan cuts - Aid to cities cuts

Fighter jets are expensive... #war #peace #antiwar #military #cuts #cutbacks #fighterjet #jet #activism

Just in case you didn't know what different parts of fighter jet are called: - Medicare cuts - Legal services cuts - Food stamp cuts - School lunch cuts - Welfare cuts - Education cuts - Job opportunity cuts - Social security cuts - Student loan cuts - Aid to cities cuts

Fighter jets are expensive... #war #peace #antiwar #military #cuts #cutbacks #fighterjet #jet #activism

No “BBC1 in the east” announcement before the news tonight. #cutbacks

JPL announces that hundreds of employees will be laid off Tuesday Jet Propulsion Laboratory leadership announces that 11% of the workforce is being cut.

#JPL #layoffs #cutbacks

More than 500 employees at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California to have their jobs taken away:

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PHAC cutting hundreds of jobs as part of 'post-pandemic recalibration' | CBC News The Public Health Agency of Canada is cutting roughly 10 per cent of its employees as it continues to shrink its workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

🧑‍⚕️PHAC Cutting Hundreds Of Jobs As Part Of 'Post-Pandemic Recalibration' ✂️

✂️Cuts Are Not Related To Government's Overall Plan To Shrink Public Sector Spending🤑

#PublicHealth #PHAC #HealthCare #Canada #MarkCarney #CutBacks #LayOffs #Government

Civic pride now seems to consist of a guy wandering up the main streets with a leafblower. #cutbacks

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In #Michigan’s cherry country, the #federal safety net is fraying

In the hills near Grand Traverse Bay, #weather woes & #Trump #cutbacks are battering #cherry growers

The frost came in late April, sliding across the hills before dawn. Juliette King McAvoy stepped into the orchard, hoping the […]

Facing declining membership and rising costs, Scouts Canada cuts 30% of staff | CBC News Scouts Canada says it has eliminated nearly one-third of its paid staff positions, as the organization attempts to balance its books in the face of an ongoing deficit of about $5 million.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#canada #modernlife #scouts #scoutscanada #news #cutbacks #canadianyouth #canadiannews #cbc #canadasky

CSU abruptly ends U-Pass deal with GCRTA – NEOtrans

And the cuts continue.....

#ClevelandStateUniversity #cutbacks

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Here's a point I haven't seen raised in dissent to the Small Ugly Tax Bill. One needs #standing to sue. With Medicaid funding taking a big hit & most hospitals #underfunded against #cyberattacks & #cutbacks they face from this poorly conceived bill, can they succeed in testing & prevailing in Court

“We’re all going to die”: Joni Ernst, Medicaid cuts, and care; parallels with Medicare cutbacks in Canada.

#joni_ernst #medicaid #medicare #death #cutbacks #elderlycare

Full video at YouTube:
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At #VeteransAffairs, plan for sweeping cuts tanks #morale. The government’s second-largest agency, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is slated to lose 83,000 employees under #Trump administration #cutbacks. There is no reason for this - the VA desperately needs more trained […]

We're only in May and look at these #fires, mostly in vegetation, just in the last week.
What's starting all of them?
With federal #cutbacks how will states be affected? And with possible #heatspell at end of May/start of June, what will CA be facing?
#climatechange
@cafirescience.bsky.social

Cheap retreads and a puncture kit.

#cutbacks

Is NGS affected by cutbacks Not sure where to post this, and I don't want to make it political. I wonder if all of the federal government cuts will affect the new datum rollout (already behind schedule due to COVID, ...

#NGS #Cutbacks #FederalGovernment #COVID19 #DataRollout

Con todo el flow. 😎

🏄🏾‍♂️: Crosby Colapinto
📹: Shane Kreutzer

#surfing #cutbacks #bigwaves #trickoftheday #extremesports #trickon #surf #boardriders #barrelsurf #surflife

Anyone else notice McDonald’s did away with their white straws that had the yellow/red lines and went to these clear plastic straws that feel/taste funny and flimsy?

#Environment #Economy #Cutbacks #Fastfood #McDonalds #PaperStraws #Cheap #Plastics

With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its darker chapters.

Trump Targets the Smithsonian.
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#History #cutbacks #economicsabotage

#Cutbacks:
How #OlderPeople are managing #CostOfLiving in time of #RisingEnergyPrices...
Lots of Info ~ Please Read & RP www.ageuk.org.uk/siteassets/d... age-uk.bsky.social #AgeUK

#EnergyRipOff
#Elderly #Vulnerable #Pensioners #PensionerPoverty #Poverty #FuelPoverty #EatOrHeat #PeopleNotProfit

#cutbacks #governmentefficiency

I am sure that there is waste in our government operations. There needs to be cuts made. But the methods used by DOGE, using the chainsaw, are the least efficient ways to cut and improve government. A systematic study of department efficiency could be done to cut.

“ #Trump administration’s #cuts to #USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to #aid_groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve a fragile #ceasefire
The #cutbacks threaten to halt the small gains aid workers have made combatting #Gaza #humanitarian_crisis

Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.

#BreakingNews: @apnews.com reporting that the #VA plans to cut 80,000 employees according to an internal memo via @firstalert4.com.(𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀. 𝗜𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀, 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁, "𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲, 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂!") #veterans #VeteransAdministration
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#cutbacks #news

Might it be in the i paper ‘cos I can pick up a copy. Have no subscription any more #cutbacks

trees manage themselves
with no regard for humans
until the chainsaw
denudes ecosystems for
convenience and profit

#tanka #poetry #BecktonPark #cutbacks