Layoffs

Supplemental unemployment benefits plans allow employers to save money while keeping released employees on their benefit plans for a temporary period.

The historically high level of churn, or rate of change, underscores the colossal challenge of bringing back millions of people to the labor market as the economy reopens.

There’s no single trajectory that captures the experience of the millions of Americans who lost jobs and then returned to work during the pandemic.

Instacart plans to terminate about 1,900 employees’ jobs, including the only unionized positions in the U.S., representing a fulsome embrace of the gig economy.

One in four small companies said they’ll go belly up if economic conditions don’t improve over the next six months.

Persistently high jobless claims, along with this week’s announcements of tens of thousands of layoffs, indicate widespread economic pain.

Sales and customer-support roles are among those being eliminated, and affects some workers who sell the company’s software aimed at financial-services firms, health and life-science companies and other cloud sales teams.

The world’s biggest retailer has laid off hundreds of workers in its store planning, logistics and real estate units.

While recessions are almost impossible to predict, employers can plan for the financial impact caused by workforce adjustments that inevitably happen every year.

The cuts are needed because the coronavirus pandemic is still battering demand for flights, the company told employees Wednesday.