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Retail Hiring at Six-Year High

Posted: January 7, 2013 at 4:18 pm

Retailers employed additional 728,300 workers between October 1st and December 31st of the past holiday season according to a report from consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm ...
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Downsizing Activity Relatively Flat in September

Posted: October 4, 2012 at 7:57 am

U.S.-based employers planned to cut 33,816 jobs in September, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas That was up 4.9% from 32,229 in August, as well as 71% lower ...
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No Big Increase in Retail Seasonal Hiring Expected (KSS, TGT, WMT, AMZN, UPS, FDX)

Posted: September 24, 2012 at 11:58 am

From October through December last year, U.S. retail payrolls added 660,200 workers according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That was barely more than the 647,600 seasonal workers added ...
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July Layoffs Lowest Yet This Year

Posted: August 2, 2012 at 8:10 am

The outplacement firm of Challenger, Gray & Christmas has released its job-cuts report for July, indicating that July layoffs declined by 2% from June’s layoff count, which had fallen by ...
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Top Ten Job Cutters for April (FSLR, PPG, YHOO, DOW, KMB)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 11:42 am

Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported this morning that employers planned 40,559 layoffs in April, up 7.1% from the 37,880 job cuts in March. In April 2011 36,490 job ...
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The Biggest Corporate Layoffs of All Time

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:50 am

Eleven American companies have laid off a total of nearly 600,000 people in the past two decades. Each also fired a large number of employees at one time to earn ...
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