A few days ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, embarked on a media tour to defend his decision to lay off thousands of his department’s workers. He announced a plan last week to cut 10,000 jobs, in addition to the estimated 10,000 jobs cut through retirements and buyouts in the early weeks of…
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This recruitment initiative is aligned with the company’s yearly lateral hiring strategy. Infosys, the Narayana Murthy founded software giant, is currently seeking experienced professionals across more than 40 different skill sets to fill various positions. The organisation requires candidates with a minimum of two years’ work experience in specialised fields including cloud computing, cyber security,…
NEW DELHI: Eight workers of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal surrendered before Kotwali Police on Wednesday in connection with the recent violence in Nagpur. They were arrested and later produced before the court, as Maharashtra police intensified its crackdown on those involved in the unrest.The surrender comes as the Nagpur police registered…
On March 4, a Trump appointee at the Department of Veterans Affairs circulated a memo to senior leadership. The agency, it said, would “move out aggressively” to improve efficiency, with an “initial objective” of cutting the work force to 2019 levels. The next morning, someone posted a copy of this “reduction in force” memo to…
As a young pastry cook at Eleven Madison Park, Genie Kwon grew accustomed to a kitchen tradition: Every time the chef shouted out an order, the other cooks responded in unison, “Oui, chef!” Or as you may have heard it on the FX show “The Bear”: “Yes, chef!” For a long time, Ms. Kwon, who…
Johns Hopkins University, one of the country’s leading centers of scientific research, said on Thursday that it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers in the United States and abroad because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs. The layoffs, the most in the university’s history, will involve 247 domestic workers for…
Italian employees at the Aviano Air Base in northern Italy paused from flipping burgers, unloading trucks and restocking shelves recently to open an email from their bosses demanding that they list five key accomplishments from last week. The email was a by-now familiar demand from President Trump’s chief cost-cutter, Elon Musk, carrying with it the…
DOGE layoffs may trigger a federal worker unemployment crisis, report warns The mass layoffs by the Department of General Employment (DOGE) could put an immense strain on the US unemployment system, especially as federal workers apply for unemployment insurance (UI). According to a new report from The Century Foundation, these layoffs have the potential to…
The Education Department announced on Tuesday that it was firing more than 1,300 workers, effectively gutting the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools. The layoffs mean that the department, which started the year with 4,133 employees, will now have a work force of about…