Displaying items 61-72 of 3885
» View latimes.com items only
< Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-324
Next >
-
Wendy Greuel seeks $175 million in savings in L.A. budget
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel said Monday that she would seek an extra $175 million in savings from the city's budget by using such strategies as cutting the City Council's discretionary funds and changing the investment practices of its...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Public Employees, Herb Wesson, Interior Policy, Local Elections
-
Greece qualifies for new bailout funds but must impose mass layoffs
ATHENS – With a critical monitoring mission completed, international debt inspectors gave Greece the nod Monday for an additional $13 billion in rescue aid but insisted that it had to ax thousands of civil servants as part of efforts to slash the...
Tags: Civil and Public Service, Job Layoffs, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace
-
L.A. County government proposes budget with no cuts or deficit
Los Angeles County officials on Monday unveiled a $24.7-billion proposed budget that for the first time in five years calls for no major cuts and does not include a deficit. County officials also said they expect to see the fiscal situation continue...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Job Layoffs, U.S. Department of Justice, Career and Workplace
-
Greece to get $13 billion in rescue funds
ATHENS — International debt inspectors gave conditional approval Monday to an additional $13 billion in rescue aid for the beleaguered Greek government, but insisted that it cut thousands of civil service jobs as part of an effort to slash...
Tags: Civil and Public Service, Job Layoffs, Finance, Career and Workplace, Antonis Samaras
-
Analysts: Disney layoffs tied to Lucasfilm, Marvel acquisitions
Walt Disney Co. has begun the process of laying off about 150 people who work at the company’s movie studio. Analysts said that the layoffs, which were confirmed by the Burbank-based company Wednesday, are probably related to redundancies...
Tags: Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Pixar Animation
-
'Django' chained in China. Disney confirms layoffs.
After the coffee. Before getting my taxes done. The Skinny: Is it football season yet? Oh, well. Thursday's headlines include layoffs at Walt Disney Co., China yanks "Django Unchained" and Fox tries a new way to keep viewers watching during commercials....
Tags: Alec Baldwin, Television Industry, Career and Workplace, Pixar Animation, North Korea
-
L.A. County prepares to unveil balanced, 'pre-recession' budget
Los Angeles County officials said Thursday they were preparing to unveil a budget that would mark the beginning of an emergence from years of austerity. The county has weathered the recession without layoffs or furloughs, but county departments have...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting, Zev Yaroslavsky, Employees
-
Walt Disney Co. confirms layoffs at movie studio
Walt Disney Co. has confirmed that it is laying off staff at its movie studio, which several media outlets reported last week. The Los Angeles Times reported April 5 that the cuts were expected to affect the studio's marketing and home entertainment...
Tags: Photography and Video, Services and Shopping, Career and Workplace, Lucasfilm Ltd., Entertainment
-
Fan mail, of a sort, for the 'sequester'
There’s little agreement about anything regarding the “sequester” except that the $85 billion in cuts to federal spending this year will be implemented starting Friday. As The Times’ editorialized Thursday: “The irony is...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Career and Workplace, Parties and Movements, Head Start, U.S. Congress
-
Monitoring upends balance of power at workplace, some say [video chat]
In a drive to cut costs and improve efficiency, companies are employing an ever-increasing array of tracking and monitoring technology to see what their employees are doing at all times, according to a story in Monday’s Los Angeles Times. For...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Employment, Back Pain, Nursing, Career and Workplace
-
How the relationship between employers and workers changed
Decades ago, many workers spent their whole lives at the same job, retiring with a full pension, and maybe even a gold watch from their boss. Now, almost no one works at the same place for life, and there’s much less loyalty between employers...
Tags: University of California, Santa Barbara, Employment, Job Layoffs, Career and Workplace, Walmart
-
Labor money starts flowing in for Garcetti
Organized labor's lopsided support for Wendy Greuel in the Los Angeles mayor's race has started shifting as unions begin pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into an independent campaign backing her rival, Eric Garcetti. The $300,000 in new labor...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Public Employees, Wendy Greuel, Unions, Eric Garcetti
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 8, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 7, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 6, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Layoffs and Downsizing topic gallery.
