NEW YORK (AP) -- Google Inc. is closing three engineering offices and cutting 100 recruiters from its work force as the recession dampens hiring at the Internet search company. "Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring," Laszlo Bock, a Google vice president, wrote in a blog posting late Wednesday announcing the layoffs. ...more

January 15, 2009

Some were called in by the boss and told to close the door behind them. Others received a brisk and impersonal phone call from a manager. Another was asked to come in on his day off to talk about "some people issues." ...more

December 5, 2008

Chrysler LLC, whose owner has been in talks to sell the automaker to General Motors Corp., said Friday that it will cut 25 percent of its salaried work force starting next month and warned that it will make more restructuring announcements soon. ...more

October 25, 2008

Verizon Communications Inc. will end a pilot customer service program designed to give customers one person as a contact to help resolve billing or other issues, company officials confirmed Friday. ...more

September 27, 2008

More than 800 employees and contract workers from Progress Energy are bound for Texas to help restore power after Hurricane Ike. ...more

September 15, 2008

More than 800 employees and contract workers from Progress Energy are bound for Texas to help restore power following Hurricane Ike. ...more

September 14, 2008

About a quarter of the nation's core intelligence work force are contractors, perhaps as many as 37,000 private employees who work side-by-side with civil servants as analysts, technology specialists and mission managers, according to a report about government outsourcing by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ...more

August 28, 2008

By Executive Order 10988 ,President John F. Kennedy granted federal employees the right to bargain collectively. ...more

August 13, 2008

Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. ...more

July 4, 2008

Nielsen Media Research and some local governments agreed to end a multiyear contract that brought the company tax rebates for bringing high-paying jobs to the region. However, that may not mean more job cuts are on the way. ...more

June 21, 2008