Top 10 Lessons Learned: Layoffs

Nora A Burns, SPHR

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Now More Than Ever

  Nonfarm payroll continued to decline in June (-467,000)

  Large declines in manufacturing, professional & business services and construction

  Unemployment rate 9.5%

  14.7 million people

  4.4 million of those are “long-term unemployed” (27+weeks)

Bureau of Labor Statistics - US Department of Labor - July 2, 2009

Unemployment Rate by Segment

  Adult Men: 10%

  Adult Women: 7.6%

  Teenagers: 24%

 Whites: 8.7%

  Blacks: 14.7%

  Hispanics: 12.2%

Bureau of Labor Statistics - US Department of Labor - July 2, 2009

EEOC Complaint Trending

 Pregnancy Discrimination Charges

  FY 2004: 4,887   FY 2005: 4,730   FY 2006: 4,901   FY 2007: 5,587   FY 2008: 6,285

 All Statutes (Title VII, ADA, ADEA and EPA) Charges

  FY 2004: 79,432   FY 2005: 75,428   FY 2006: 75,768   FY 2007: 82,792   FY 2008: 95,402

US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EEOC Complaint Trending

 Sex-Based Charges   FY 2004: 24,249   FY 2005: 23,094   FY 2006: 23,247   FY 2007: 24,826   FY 2008: 28,372

 Race-Based Charges   FY 2004: 27,696   FY 2005: 26,740   FY 2006: 27,238   FY 2007: 30,510   FY 2008: 33,937

US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Lesson 1: The Buyout

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Lesson 2: Early Retirement

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Lesson 3: Role of Empathy

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Lesson 4: The Tee-Up Counts

Lesson 5: Be Real

“If this were a real financial emergency…..layoffs would be greater than [11%]”

-Executive of firm that had just cut 24 of their 224 positions

Lesson 6: When

Source: Employment Spectator April 14, 2009 http://www.employmentspectator.com/2009/04/update-laying-off-nurses-immediately-does-not-mean-during-surgery/

Lesson 7: Who

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Lesson 8: Speed

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Lesson 9: Appreciate Differences

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Lesson 10: The Survivors

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BONUS Lesson: Options

Source for Quote: inlandsocial.com June 24, 2009

Thank you!

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Nora A Burns, SPHR

Nora@Insightfulendeavors.com

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